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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.
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.
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