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Effing dykes is new.   Oh, bliss.  I wait patiently for each new entry.   She talks about cheating.  Which I've never done, nor have I been cheated on, at least by my and my partner's definitions.  My definition of cheating is something around "Did you engage in physical or emotional intimacy that was not condoned by a person in your life with whom you have promised physical or emotional intimacy to?"  Which is a fancy way of saying - "Did you violate a contract that you made with someone, and did it hurt his/her feelings?"  Which can be refined to "Don't be thoughtless about your actions."  Which is probably too vague to be useful.  Anyway, there's a healthy comment board on this post with other thoughts that the readers have.  
http://effingdykes.blogspot.com/2012/06/thanks-hiya-slit-ticklers-ive-missed.html  

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I adore the art of  Nikki McClure. Currently I have one of her journals and some notecards.  I enjoyed this interview on how she makes her art, and on the philosophy of thought, memory, and handiwork that goes with it.  
http://kindness.ravenandcrowstudio.com/2011/01/journal-of-movement-of-world.html 

And by way of her blog, some links to things to do with old calendars, or other pretty scrap paper: 
Paper star - http://www.squidoo.com/make-paper-snowflakes 
Gift bag -  http://liberatedspaces.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/baginstructions.jpg 
I'll be sure to remember these this Christmas.  I want to research repurposing beautiful paper.  

I sometimes keep things that are beautiful but have no use, in the hopes that I could make a use out of them.  Examples: Beads, old neckties, CD liner notes, fat quarters, yarn.  Lurid nail polish.  It's at the essence of crafting, for me.  


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http://www.wired.com/geekmom/2012/04/geekgirlsand50shadesofgrey/ 

This article is mostly for wired and makes me even more disappointed that I missed the excellent panel at WisCON on  Girl Cooties.  My romance novelist of choice is Jennifer Cruisie, with Gail Carriger a close second, but only because I think I never thought of the other novels that I read as romances.  Because once you accept the premise that a romance is a story about love, then almost all books become romances, don't they?  

But lots and lots of them are.  In fact, right now I'm in the middle of The Marriage Plot, which may be an anti-romance romance novel.  We shall see.  

This also reminds me that I need to finally get around to reading the Vorkosigan saga.  It's literally been 15 years since I remember my friends mentioning how good it was.