I guess it isn’t all Jane Lawless, after all. I didn’t love The Iron Girl but I sure liked it more than Stage Fright. How many women has Jane Lawless been through? She has bedded more women than, errrr, well a lot of women.
I think I like the Sophie Greenway mysteries better than the Jane Lawless mysteries – which is too bad since Sophie isn’t a dyke and it’s odd too because all of the food is just not “me”. But there you have it, I’m a contradiction.
Time flies and there’s nothing I can do to change that. Which ROTS because it means I have all sorts of fun gay topics that I’ve just not had time to blog about. So, I’m doing a gay link dump. Click and enjoy and I couldn’t pass up just a brief comment about each one of these.
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For a minute, I thought I’d already read Stage Fright but no, I hadn’t. And I’m sort of wishing I never picked it up. I used to like Jane Lawless but she was pretty wishy washy in this book.
That’s two dyke mysteries that have left me cold in the last week. Maybe it’s me? I’ll go read another and we’ll find out.
From the World AIDS Campaign: Efforts to halt AIDS are falling far short of their targets. Over 25 million people have been lost to AIDS so far, and 4.3 million people were infected with HIV this year. The spread of HIV is quickening – with more people infected in 2006 than in any previous year. This is despite the number of promises by world leaders to provide services to curb the rates of infection and to bring down deaths.
Go and visit my friend skeeter…
Michael Edward B.
September 28, 1949 – December 2, 1998I’ll be watching And the Band Played On again soon, Eddie. I’ll be thinking of you, and then of so many others. I’ll cry and hurt and then become enraged, for you and for them. And Eddie, you were wrong one last time. They still haven’t found a cure.
And then, go visit Karen Walrond at Chookooloonks. Leave a comment – she’s donating $1 for every comment to the Cyril Ross Nursery. Karen is awesome, and this is just more proof.
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Sigh. Detective Delafield, you were not at your best in Hancock Park. Are you showing your age? Or is it Katherine Forrest who is showing hers? I can’t decide. All I know is that I don’t like it and I hope we see improvements with the next Kate Delafield mystery.
The good detective is a drinker and should definitely get that under control. I’m all for that. She’s also the kind of dyke who doesn’t wander around the sisterhood with a rainbow bumper sticker attending empowerment seminars and that should not change at all. Leave the woman alone. Let her do her job and go home to a nice g/f at the end of a hard day. Or let her do her job and go home with a screwed up lesbian relationship at the end of the day. But quit beating her up about not being an active participant in the community. That’s BS and Katherine Forrest should really know better, shouldn’t she?
Yes, she should.
I don’t really DO graphic novels (or comics). They just aren’t my thing, I know that and I avoid them. But when I heard Fun Home was being challenged and banned, I decided to give it a try. I do like Dykes to Watch Out For, in small doses, so I had high hopes for Fun Home.
High hopes indeed. Fun Home is excellent. And it totally needed to be a graphic novel instead of just a written word piece. What a family, what a story, what a terrific job Bechdel did telling her story.
A Banned Book: Fun Home Read More »
How would you handle it if your child was still asking how old he had to be before he could cut off his penis?
When can I cut off my penis? Read More »
It’s important to remember that Lesbian Images was written 30 years ago. We’ve come a long way since then. Sometimes I think we’ve come too far, but that’s another blog entry entirely.
Jane Rule takes a look at lesbian characters in literature. From The Well of Loneliness to a Colette to Orlando with some discussion of books like The Price of Salt and Rubyfruit Jungle. She does a fairly good job of contrasting the characters with the authors who created them, as well. I think maybe I need to read The Well of Loneliness again, and more Colette.
I’d like to see a similar stufy of lesbian images done with literature from the 1970’s to today. Anyone want to take that on?
In the Eyes of Strangers has finally arrived. I was about to give up! Pre-ordering her CDs is rarely a great idea because they never come when they’re supposed to come. But, really it’s ok because I would not really have had time to listen to it before now anyway.
To tell you the truth, I haven’t really been looking forward to this one like I have every other Ferrick CD. Too much twang – I’ve mentioned that before. Too much Natalia – I’ve also mentioned that before. But, I might be changing my mind on the second listen.
Remember how I said I hated the song "Stuck"? Well I have officially changed my mind with this version. I can almost forget that we were STUCK right along with her when I listen to this one. Really excellent mix. I am never going to love "Never Give Up" and "Everything You Get" is better live than it is on the CD. I love, love, LOVE Miss Liberty (not written by Melissa). I do hope she’s playing this in her shows, has anyone seen her perform it live????? Rest Now (the Chris Whitley song) is good, One Year appears to be pulled in part from something we heard during a sound check, very different but there are pieces of the original in there. I think I like it. But I’m going to have to listen to it again. It’s unusual, not typical Melissa and not the super twangy Melissa, either.
I could go on, but I won’t. Just buy the CD yourself and make up your own mind. Or, if you’re cheap (or broke) go over to her myspace and listen to a few of the songs there.
Excuse me while I play Miss Liberty again and again and again.
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Crocodile Soup is a weird lesbian coming of age sort of tale. I didn’t find it as weird as weird as TW did, which makes me wonder. Am I weird because it made sense to me – or is TW weird because it didn’t make sense to her?
Dysfunctional family, of course. Gert and Frank are twins. Both have some serious emotional issues, though Frank’s are just a wee bit more serious than Gert’s (and Gert’s may be more related to the dysfunctional family and her twin brother’s issues than anything else). They live in a haunted historical home. The ghost, of course, is a poet. A woman poet. A lesbian woman poet. And she drives Gert a little more nuts than her family is already driving her.
Interesting. And yes, a little weird, but not THAT weird.
