Aliens in Pretty Dresses
I’m too old to read fashion magazines, or even often women’s magazines for that matter, but when you’re stuck in a doctor’s office, they’re fun to look through and see what horrors will trickle down...
View ArticleAliens in Pretty Dresses, Part 2
Actress Gabourey Sidibe wowed people during the awards season, including at the Oscars, but in typical fashion, the media has decided to treat her as another kind of alien in a pretty dress. First came...
View ArticleAliens in Pretty Dresses, Part 3
I would have been perfectly happy not to do another blog entry under the heading above, but then a friend sent me a preview spread of J. Crew’s Spring 2010 catalog that is causing some distress in the...
View ArticleAliens in Pretty Dresses, Sort of Part 4
So there’s buzz about body size and fashion once again, only it’s kind of an interesting angle. Lane Bryant, who among other types of clothes sells plus size garments, decided to do a t.v. ad campaign...
View ArticleCoda to Aliens in Pretty Dresses, Part 2
If you’re on the North American continent, Saturday Night Live has as host this week actress Gabourey Sidibe, with musical guest MGMT. Her television show, The Big C, with Laura Linney and Oliver Platt...
View ArticleInteresting Articles While My House is Being Ripped Apart and the Phone Lines...
1) Some movies have an odd history and mega stars: http://www.cracked.com/article_19287_10-movies-that-famous-people-dont-want-you-to-see_p2.html 2) Andrew Wheeler deals with a really brain dead essay...
View ArticleReturn of the Stick Aliens in Pretty Dresses!
Fashion is, in its shiny haute couture forms, about art. Designers often go for the bizarre in order to startle and dazzle with thought provoking and often controversial images rather than wearable...
View ArticleHappy New Year — May You Soar This Year
To celebrate the start of the crazy new year that is 2012, here’s a partial demo of a new, original song, Summer’s Rain, by the ridiculously talented Briannah Donolo (auditory only video.) Finish this...
View ArticleHow Are You Ladies Doing?
So, way back in February, due to a blog post by Australian author Joel Shepherd, I did a two part post on whether things were really looking dire for female movie stars or not (and had been in the...
View ArticleThe Invisible Woman — Sometimes Attrition Is Mindnumbingly Slow
The pieces that I did on female movie stars and attrition towards better female placement in movies keep coming back to haunt me lately. That attrition is of course too slow, as all removal of...
View ArticleIt’s Time For Women in Film!
So last year, I did a two part essay called “Death of the Female Movie Star? We’re Just Getting Started” that got a bit of attention (more than 2 people read it!) That essay has come back to me in...
View ArticleYou Be Ladies Now, Ya Hear! — The SFWA Bulletin Dust-up
Just when I was planning to move on from “lady” stuff, apparently a bomb of controversy exploded at Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) concerning the organization’s newsletter, the...
View ArticleOdds and Ends — 7/14/13
There has been some sad news recently, but it is still being digested, so instead, here are some other things: 1) J.K. Rowling has been outed as the author of the successful mystery novel The Cuckoo’s...
View ArticleThe Problems We’re Still Fighting in the Industry
Australian writer Foz Meadows is rapidly becoming a favorite columnist of mine. She’s sharp, erudite and a good researcher. Over at Black Gate Magazine’s site, Meadows gives a meditative take on the...
View ArticleInteresting Writings for a Day of Recovery — 10/20/13
I’ve been sick. Like barely moving sick. So now that my brain works a bit better, here are some interesting writings links that piled up (some a tad old in Internet days): 1) Chuck Wendig has a very...
View ArticleSFWA Ripples
So last year, the Bulletin, the official magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) writers organization, got into a scandal that was complicated and disenheartening and...
View ArticleThe Female Movie Star Lives in 2014 – Yearly Update, Part 1
Back in early 2012, I took two posts by Australian author Joel Shepherd as a jumping off point to look at women in action film and Hollywood in general. (Shepherd had sold film rights to his military...
View ArticleThe Female Movie Star Lives in 2014 – Yearly Update, Part 2
(See Part 1 here.) So, has the female movie star died off as we enter into the full 2014 movie season? No, and not just in the area of the big budget action movies. “Women’s” pictures – comedies and...
View ArticleLinks & Misc. — Spring Cleaning! — Part 3
Diversity & Ending Discrimination: Because I can, ha ha! There are just a lot of these saved up, from various craziness that’s occurred in the last several months, and many folks have been writing...
View ArticleMaya Angelou Leaves Us
But we still have her words: Filed under: Art, Women Tagged: "Still I Rise", art, civil rights, interesting writings, Maya Angelou, poetry
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