by Jim Stitzel | Oct 24, 2006 | General
Boing Boing: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence trike drag (queen) race, SF I’m linking to this particular article for only one reason. I’ve considered writing about this for a little while now, but this quote was the catalyst: bq. Scenes like this make me...
by Jim Stitzel | Sep 26, 2006 | General
I’d rather laugh than cry: he loves me anyway It’s a common ideal in American culture that our women must have a certain look in order to be considered attractive. They must all be slim and curvacious and positively dead-sexy. Supermodels are the ideal,...
by Jim Stitzel | Sep 20, 2006 | General
I found this over at “Mark’s blog”:http://fadingdust.wordpress.com the other day: bq. p. 118: “Americans will go to almost any lengths to avoid sounding negative, pessimistic, or defeatist, even if it means being somewhat less than honest or...
by Jim Stitzel | Aug 13, 2006 | General
“GenCon”:http://www.gencon.com/2006/indy/ weekend in Indy is always an amusing and interesting time to drive carriages. The things that you see downtown: Apparently the years have not been good to Darth Vader. He’s both shorter and rounder than his...
by Jim Stitzel | Jul 23, 2006 | General
For several Saturdays running now, I’ve been back driving carriages in downtown Indy, and as usual you see all kinds of interesting things during the hours spent circling the streets. Here’s a few of the things I saw last night: Inevitably, there are...