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Remembering Leonard Nimoy z”l | Coffee Shop Rabbi

So many remembrances of Leonard Nimoy this weekend. This is one of my favorites. Remembering Leonard Nimoy z”l | Coffee Shop Rabbi.Filed under: Reblogging Tagged: deaths, Leonard Nimoy

Remembering Leonard Nimoy z���l | Coffee Shop Rabbi

So many remembrances of Leonard Nimoy this weekend. This is one of my favorites. Remembering Leonard Nimoy z���l | Coffee Shop Rabbi.Filed under: Reblogging Tagged: deaths, Leonard Nimoy

Workout corsets! For real…

Originally posted on Fit Is a Feminist Issue:
I’m looking forward to reading Timothy Caulfield’s new book Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong about Everything? In it Caulfield debunks the health and fitness trends perpetuated by celebrities, everything from juice cleanses to to gluten-free diets. Sometimes it seems as if celebrity diet and fitness advice ought to…

Why feminism is still needed

Originally posted on Fit Is a Feminist Issue:
Michael Rowe shared this on Facebook with the following comment: ���I can���t help but wonder what it would look like if a male author who had sold 30 million copies of one book (in this case, THE THORN BIRDS, which was made into the second-highest rated miniseries…

Suzette Haden Elgin 1936 – 2015

One of our elders left us this week. Suzette Haden Elgin was a writer of science fiction, a professor linguistics, the founder of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and a feminist, among many other things. While I thought less of her novel Native Tongue than a lot of people did, I’ll always remember her fondly […]

Gwyneth Paltrow says steam your vagina, an OB/GYN says don’t

Originally posted on Dr. Jen Gunter:
On today’s episode of ask the experts we pit the gynecologic advice of Gwyneth Paltrow, a consciously uncoupled actress and self-professed lifestyle expert who dabbles in vaginal health, against that of yours truly, a board certified OB/GYN who has completed a 5 year OB/GYN residency and a fellowship in…

The Creature Chronicles by Tom Weaver, David Schecter & Steve Kronenberg – A Review

The Creature Chronicles: Exploring the Black Lagoon Trilogy Tom Weaver, David Schecter, Steve Kronenberg McFarland & Company (November 2014) nonfiction (5/5)�� Hi, everyone! My brain decided that the first weeks of January was blog vacation time, it would seem. Fair enough. It’s a good time of year to reset. Not sure what I’ve reset to, […]

Top Ten Posts of 2014

2014 is almost at an end. (You probably don’t need me to tell you that, though, huh?) Anyway, I thought it would be fun to post links to the most-read posts of my blog for 2014. Interesting mix of topics and content, at least to me. I’m glad folks are finding them. To everyone reading, […]

The Apex Book of World SF 3 – A Review

The Apex Book of World SF 3 Lavie Tidhar, Editor Apex Book Company (June 2014) science fiction/fantasy/horror 4.13/5 I’m back with another LibraryThing review. This is the second Apex anthology I’ve read in 2014, thanks to LibraryThing’s Early Reviewer program; the first was The Book of Apex: Volume 4 of Apex Magazine. The set-up for […]

Chain of Evil by Michael R. Collings – A Review

Chain of Evil: Journalstone’s Guide to Writing Darkness Michael R. Collings JournalStone (August 2014) nonfiction (2.75/5) I’ve had a mixed experience with the books that JournalStone publishes. The last JournalStone book I received through LibraryThing‘s Early Reviewer program didn’t do much for me. On the other hand, I found Mr. October to be a fairly […]