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- Why WISB is a Safe Place: I Won't Call Your Employer by The World in the Satin Bag on Nov 20, 2009
I have access to every IP that comes to this website. I also have some detailed information for all of those IPs. But guess what: I'm not going to report you to your employer if you post a vulgar or just downright stupid comment. Not like this gu...
- A Reiteration: Books and Music; Lovers, But Not Twins by The World in the Satin Bag on Nov 15, 2009
I am consistently shocked by the persistence of the belief that books (and particularly the book industry) are somehow exactly the same as music (and the music industry). While there are certainly analogous relationships between the two, the idea th...
- I Dream of Zombies by The World in the Satin Bag on Nov 9, 2009
And I want to know if anyone else does.We all dream. I know this, and most everyone does. The only thing is that most of us don't remember our dreams. I usually don't...unless they're about zombies. Now, not all of my zombie dreams are scary in t...
- 5 Ways to Explain Scifi Obsession to Friends by The World in the Satin Bag on Nov 1, 2009
We all have that one friend who doesn’t get science fiction. Some of us have probably gone through the annoying experience of trying to explain it and realized how futile such a thing really is. But maybe we’ve failed because we haven’t bothe...
- Why I’m Sick of the Term “Race” by The World in the Satin Bag on Oct 27, 2009
To get into this discussion, I’m going to have to toss out all of my beliefs that there is no such thing as race (a belief Edward James Olmos not only agrees with, but managed to have changed in the United Nations, adding weight to the importance o...
- Book Shopping Etiquette by The World in the Satin Bag on Oct 24, 2009
I recently returned from an enormous book sale in the Gainesville area and have a few thoughts on the issue of book shopping etiquette, since clearly nobody at the sale had any idea what etiquette was. So, I have compiled this list of good book shop...
- I Know What Un-American Is by The World in the Satin Bag on Oct 23, 2009
Do you? Well, if you don’t, maybe you should consider the following:1. Sending U.S. soldiers into Iraq to die under the spoken claim that a) Iraq was a direct threat to the United States (false) and b) Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (also fa...
