Getting there

Being sick is no fun. I want my throat back. I want my usual routine back. At least I think I'm think I'm getting better.

I watched the first night of the Westminster dog show. Really, the divisions that interest me are tonight, but I liked Josh the Newfoundland. Certainly more than I liked the poodle or Peke... the award is for best dog overall, not just the most ostentatiously groomed dog.

The original trilogy Star Wars movies are coming to DVD in September, but only the special editions, not the original theatrical versions we all grew up with.

Shoujo in Time

Drawing In the Gals: Article in Time magazine on the manga explosion. Actually mention shonen-ai which surprised me.

Girls who game and JEM

havocthecat wrote a long interesting counterpoint to an article on RPG.net called Girls Don't Roleplay. She covered it more thoroughly than I could so my general reaction remains: WTF? I don't have to look any further than my writers' group for examples of female gamers and GMs. We even ran a fairly short-lived "all girls" super-hero RPG. The lions share of my online gaming experience have been female dominated. And god knows my friends list is filled by old school gamers.

TVShowsonDVD announced that the first two seasons of the 1980s cartoon JEM will be released on DVD in March.