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[rivkat]

I find it very funny that I am only one of seven people on LJ who follow Underneath Their Robes, a blog devoted to gossip about Article III judges. I wish it were possible to get a list of the others, the way you can with real users.

Also, I've now syndicated the blog of a very -- interesting -- close relative. She writes a lot about politics, and also about comics and her own creative writing, which I think is extremely good. She is about five times more conservative than I am comfortable with, but her post about why she identifies as a person who is sexually attracted to women despite believing that same-sex sexuality is sinful (according to her/the Catholic Church, not me, I assure you) is thought-provoking, though deeply antithetical to my beliefs. I'm not 100% sure I should have her on my list, because she tends to raise my blood pressure,

Speaking of raised blood pressure, I got about a hundred pages into Fata Morgana, by Leo Frankowski, before I had to stop. I remember Frankowski's Cross-Time Engineer books from my childhood -- guy gets plunked down in medieval Poland and proceeds, Connecticut-Yankee-in-King-Arthur's-Court-style, to bring modern technology to the serfs. Thinking back, I remember a tech fetish and a sort of casual sexism, with busty blonde tavern wenches, but this book was just dreadful. First there was eighty or so pages of setup telling how this large boat was built, how it ended up crewed with just two engineer guys, and then how it washed up on a floating island isolated from all modernity and, crucially, all metal. I stopped because not only was the writing awful, but the main character and his sidekick got into a discussion about whether women were inferior by nature (sidekick's position, based on -- get this -- women's smaller brains) or merely warped by modern media into playing head games with any guy stupid enough to play along (narrator). Life's too short; I'm just ashamed that as a child I contributed in any way to this guy's livelihood.

Comments

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

*raises hand* I'm one of the seven. I'm also trying to get other people interested in the SCOTUSblog feed and failing miserably.

[iocaste212.livejournal.com]

I hope you counted me as a follower of Underneath Their Robes. Hilarious.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

I like it, too. I was hoping you were one of the readers, but there's no way to tell as far as I know, which is really too bad.

[popfantastic.livejournal.com]

There's no way for readers to tell who else is reading, but anyone with a domain and stats has a chance of tracking down readers by LJ name if they click off of their friends page to read the whole entry -- I mention this just in case it's an issue. And, hey, one out of two rounds of Related-to-Rivka-Or-Not solved. I have to admit, this was the more perplexing one.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Not an issue for me -- my relatives are real "agree to disagree" types, and I doubt I could scandalize her more than I have with plenty of other things. As for perplexing, we definitely look at her and wonder how that happened. I guess you could say she found God and man at Yale.

[popfantastic.livejournal.com]

Hee.

my relatives are real "agree to disagree" types

And this is just disgustingly sane. There are families that actually operate like this?

[thestickywicket.livejournal.com]

There's a SCOTUSblog? Well, damn. ::runs off to find it::

I got here, incidentally, by way of a friends of friends of-type thing and have also added the Art. III Judges feed, because -- judiciary gossip! Excellent. ;)