MORE GOOD NEWS

A story of mine has been accepted for Logical Lust's Spank! anthology, edited by D.L. King. This will be an e-book to be published in late Summer or early Fall. It might become a hard copy anthology as well!

ACH DU LIEBER! LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS FINALISTS

Yes, two of the books in the Lesbian Erotica category of the Lambda Literary Awards 2010 are anthologies with stories of mine in them! Lesbian Cowboys edited by Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia, and Where the Girls Are edited by D.L. King, are both finalists. Yeehaw!

A FANTASY OF MINE

This is a favourite phantasy of mine. I guess it has something to do with the idea of being completely helpless precisely because of one's own supposed power and invulnerability.

Frankly, I would like to be this woman: an armoured knight desperately in need of rescue. And what if the only one available to assist was a "helpless" damsel type who would take full advantage of the situation? How could a proud warrior queen ever live this down?

There is something about a woman in a suit of armour that is irresistable to me! I've drawn dozens of pics like this one, some finished, some partially finished, and some I just keep changing my mind about when it comes to what captions to attach.

PLACE HOLDING POST

Bloody Hell! How does this happen? I haven't posted in more than two months. Comrades, do not forsake me. I must maintain my web life! I don't know where the time goes.

MEA CULPA! MEA MAXIMA CULPA!

etc.

The good news is, I'm still writing my second novel. It moves slowly but surely. Trying to average one hour a day through the course of the year That would come out to 10 full time weeks per annum. But with any luck I can do more than that.

DO YOU THINK CANADA IS FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT IN AFGHANISTAN?

Think again. Rather than listen to corporate media hacks and deceitful politicians, or the politically correct friends and family of ignorant young Canadian soldiers, we might actually try listening to an Afghan for once, to hear what he or she thinks about foreign soldiers in their land.

But they must be glad of us there, right? Aren't Canadian troops there so Afghan girls can evade the Taliban and get an education? So runs the propaganda. But here what Malalai Joya, a courageous Afghan defender of women's rights has to say about the war. I heard her interviewed on CBC radio recently, and she cuts through all the bullshit like a razor.

CANADA FUCKS OVER THE WORLD

I come out of the doldrums of blog inactivity to give you this priceless link. You've gotta read George Monbiot in his blog entry, The Urgent Threat to World Peace is . . . Canada. Fuckin' eh. He's absolutely right.

I think Canada is a disgrace. We are a rich country and have nothing better to offer this troubled world than to fuck it over with our damned tar sands oil and our vicious obstruction of environmental progress.

Who the hell do we think we are? And why do we let our ruling classes do whatever they like? God inspire us to exterminate their power over us. It's way past time.

SOME POST REMEMBRANCE DAY STATISTICS

These are the number of deaths that occurred (civilian and military) as a result of WWII in some of the combatant countries:

USA 274,000
Great Britain 350,000
France 600,000

Italy 500,000
Japan 2,350,000
Germany 6,500,000

USSR 20,000,000 (this figure is almost twice as large as those above put together)

My source is the Worth Press Timechart History of World War II by David Gibbons. The Soviet figure is on the conservative end, compared to other sources I have seen. If I'm not mistaken, deaths in Poland were something like 6 million, and those in China much higher than that.