Christmas time is here again
2016-12-20
I started writing this on December 17, the day after Paul and I traveled to Bellingham for the 20th(!) Clambake Christmas Special. We got to see long-time favorites Clambake, punk rock kids Secondhand Suits, the reunion tour of the Fabulous Bakettes, and the Dirty Bird Cabaret, which included both aContinue Reading
Donald Trump is literally The Antichrist, maybe
2016-12-04
There’s one theory about Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential contest that I haven’t seen floated much yet: maybe he’s The Antichrist. If he is, white evangelicals missed it. More than eighty percent of them voted for him. In fact, since the 2016 election was so close, they probably provided him withContinue Reading
Writing at the end of the world: NaNoWriMo 2016
2016-11-30
Some of you know that the publisher of Waking Up Naked in Strange Places went out of business — it was last year, but let’s just call it this year, because 2016 deserves it. I’ve been going through the usual struggles of “hey, what do you do when your publisher goesContinue Reading
Nicer
2016-11-24
Over Orycon weekend I surprised myself by getting really angry while talking to a nice, well-meaning person who I like a lot. Both of us are opponents of Trump, troubled about how to move forward, and committed to resisting fascism. She was talking about Thanksgiving, and the prospect of gettingContinue Reading
Shutting up, sitting down, making peace
2016-11-12
When you were a kid, and you found out about the Nazis, did you fantasize that, if you had been there, you would have been really heroic? Hiding Anne Frank in your attic, that sort of thing? I know I did. Most of us did. I was a baby evangelicalContinue Reading
I was hoping I wouldn’t have to write this
2016-11-10
Believe me America, you’re going to regret this. Half of you already do, if the protests across major American cities yesterday were any indication. Are those going to die down? Are people going to settle in eventually and just accept a wildly incompetent crotch-grabber endorsed by the KKK as theirContinue Reading
Mary & George Epilogue
2016-11-06
And of course the epilogue, which I drew in November of 2004, after the election:Continue Reading
Mary & George Part 3
2016-11-05
A reprint of a series I originally drew in August 2004:Continue Reading
Mary & George Part 2
2016-11-04
A reprint of a series I originally drew in August 2004:Continue Reading
Mary & George Part 1
2016-11-03
A reprint of a series I originally drew in August 2004:Continue Reading
Never a helpmeet Part 9: Donald Trump and the cult of patriarchy
2016-10-20
It’s fitting that I wrote this series in 2016, the year that Donald Trump is running for President of the United States against our first-ever female candidate, Hillary Clinton. It’s a current event so loaded with metaphorical significance it’s hard to believe it’s really happening. Trump is a distillation ofContinue Reading
Never a helpmeet Part 8: Why patriarchy?
2016-10-16
One thing that has puzzled me since I was a child and watched Phyllis Schlafly seemingly single-handedly defeat the Equal Rights Amendment: why do they do it? Anti-feminists, I mean? I can sort of see why people didn’t want to change in the first place, because people resist change. AndContinue Reading