Shazia Mirza makes me wish I was Muslim so I could be cutting-edge. She has had several death threats. Recently, on tour in Odense, Denmark, Mirza was told that fundamentalists had let it be known …
For as long as I've cared that I was female, the sound of an acoustic guitar has enchanted me. I don't remember really tripping out to the sound of Mr. Motenko accompanying himself on "Good …
Leonard gets right to my heart by dissecting the upcoming Transformers movie with reference to John Rawls, X-Men, motivation, and picoleers. It's hilarious and you should read it.
Upon finding that I'm high on the list in Google searches for "cam green samurai ranger ninja storm" and the like, I checked out my competitors. All of his ratings are at least 9 out …
You can still read book excerpts, online, at BookBrowse, from Louise Erdrich to Joseph Ellis.
I happened across a Sammy Sosa corked-bat roundup and pondered aloud, "Why don't we just let everyone use corked bats?" Then I wondered whether that's the J. Bradford DeLong solution. Answer from Leonard: No. The …
The Salon office environment reminds me, I now realize, of some cross between every media outlet I've ever worked for (e.g., KUOP, "Talking it Through with John Morearty: Dialogues on War and Peace", all my …
Lenin/Stalin slash fiction. Bonus sequel idea: "Hotsy Trotsky."
Jon Carroll and Danny O'Brien both have Roombas. "If the pathetic fallacy is ascribing human emotions to animals, then ascribing human emotions to disc-shaped machines must be the Truly Pathetic Fallacy." Cameron is seeking editors …
I'm quite a sucker for details of how kidnappees outwit their abductors. Fairy tales can come true!
