I don’t like to brag*, but due to random happenstance, I actually followed Nimona in its original run as a web comic from the very first entry. I somehow started following Noelle Stevenson on Tumblr (probably because of her Broship of the Ring fanart) and then she started Nimona, and I was hooked. *Lies. For a year and a half, two days a week I received the new Nimona pages in my outdated Microsoft Outlook work email inbox. Best two days of the week. It […]
These are minutes of my life I will never get back
I… just… bad. All of the bad. I can’t believe this drivel even got published. I think these may have started as plots for porn, and the director just laughed, said “It’s not what we’re looking for, why don’t you write a book?” while snickering, and the author went and did just that. It is not in any way a good imitation of Austen’s writing, it would not have fit in with any of the plots, and it’s not even good porn! It’s 2015, people, […]
Lascivious Lacerterlia = Lots of Laughs
Christopher Moore is one of my favorite authors, and I delight in introducing him to others. I selected this having never read it myself for my Book Club. You would think I might have gleaned a bit about it from the title, buuuut I didn’t really think about it. It was, shall we say, a vivid step into the crazy and humorous world he has created in present day Pine Cove, California, and warrants a very health suspension of disbelief. Primordial lizards, randy citizens, murder, […]
I love this book so much.
First, if you haven’t yet read the masterpiece that is Roxane Gay’s recap of Magic Mike XXL, go do that first. Done? Okay, so this book is nothing like that Magic Mike XXL recap, excepting that they are both written by the same very talented writer, who can slip effortlessly from writing obscene yet gut-bustingly hilarious movie recaps with a smidgen of feministic leanings, to writing very deeply personal and intelligent, well-reasoned essays about body image and sexuality and pop culture and rape and race in the […]