http://cliterature.today.com Women, sexuality & books. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:17:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I hung in there a little longer.  But this is the official very final post.  If you want to find where I am hanging out theese days, Google is your friend.  There are not too many gals going by "Veinglory".  :) http://cliterature.today.com/2009/02/24/official-final-post/ Nature red in manicure. Within three feet of a wall socket Gorilla Lux is the brightest creatures imaginable, anywhere else she is just an ape with a fragile skull. This is the second feral doll and I am fairly happy with her, except that I accidentally super-glued the light switch open. ... http://cliterature.today.com/2009/02/22/feral-doll-2-gorilla-lux/ While Cleis released a full book of the 26 covers (which I reviewed here), it seems taht the actual alphabet themed book series has been cancelled.  So the actual anthologies will get no further than L, at least with this publisher. http://cliterature.today.com/2009/02/09/cleis-alphabet-books-h-for-horatio/ I got a box of old doll parts and have been putting together what I think of as "the feral dolls". They are a bit of statement about dolls and femininity--but you don't need to take them all that seriously. This is the first of them to be more-or-less finished. ... http://cliterature.today.com/2009/02/02/feral-doll-1-tribelle/ Realms of Fantasy is closing, John Updike has died of lung cancer, Diamond (the main distributor for indy comic books) is becoming less accessable, In a continuing trend Borders is choosing not to carry the latest book by highly popular author L Bujold. In the world of words (and making money ... http://cliterature.today.com/2009/01/28/the-world-according-to-veinglory-something-blue/ Hi all.  This blog will no longer be regularly updated.  Thank you all for reading.  :) http://cliterature.today.com/2009/01/14/286/ In my experience sex pundits are a fairly mixed lot, but you can normally depend on them being pretty progressive--except where it comes to asexuality.   Take for exampe the "FOXSexpert" (pictured) in the article posted two days ago, "Asexuality - Is It Even Real?" (I was feeling the support and acceptance for asexuals ... http://cliterature.today.com/2009/01/14/asexuality-still-not-accepted/ In glib terms you could say there are two main types of fiction.  Literary stories explore the ambiguity of human experience--somehow having the goal of enlightening us and making us better people.  While genre fiction provides a more orderly picture where the good people are rewarded and bad people punished--with ... http://cliterature.today.com/2009/01/14/good-stories-bad-people-and-wishing-upon-a-star/   I guess I am getting older.  I am transitioning seamlessly from wanting to dye my hair any color other than the one it is, to wanting to dye it exactly the color it used to be before it started going gray (if only I could remember what that color actually ... http://cliterature.today.com/2009/01/12/natural-match/ In our current culture it often seems that you are meant to pick sides: be girly, or don't. But I am a liberated woman who also likes a lot of feminine things, even those developed in an overtly sexist context. But I don't see why not having to wear pastels ... http://cliterature.today.com/2009/01/11/retro-means-never-having-to-say-you-are-girly/