I’m not sure how long we’ve been away. This Rip Van Winkle sleep consumed me. Has it been eight days? Eight months — eight years? Eighty years? And in that time, so much has happened. Recently, both D and I…
Subterfuge has been on hiatus for the past four days to catch up on badly needed editing/curating. The magazine will resume its normal posting schedule tomorrow. We apologize for the lack of awesome reading material, and we will be back…
I was told it couldn’t be done, but I proved the naysayers wrong—in the span of five days, I went from having a dead car to a new car at a great price and a great interest rate. Here’s how…
As of Monday evening, 9,186 people want Sesame Street to let Bert & Ernie finally say I Do. Needless to say, any time you put ‘gay’ and ‘kids’ anywhere near each other people start freaking out. This necessarily brings to…
This is why people drink, isn’t it? I feel sick. I feel tired. I feel vile. I had a dream this morning and you were there; we were kissing, and I could hardly breathe because even that was too much…
To recap, “TiMER” is a near-future science fiction rom-com, in which a device has the ability to tell you when, to the day, you will meet your One True Love. There is an unsettling aspect of this movie that I’d…
Paganism is often depicted as evil and Satanic, despite the prevalence of peace and equality throughout the majority of Pagan religions. (A giant programming note: pagan religions are generally very peaceful. That’s not to say that there aren’t people…
“America has been in the grip of accelerating inequality for decades. Politicians have been supporting policies that benefit the few at the expense of everyone else. No matter what you call it – trickle down economics, free market fundamentalism, crony…
[this post ran on June 2, 2011, but it's still a great excuse for why I couldn't write -- or post -- anything for today.] So this morning, I put the finishing touches on a personal essay. I thought it…
When I look at “women’s magazines” I see one message front and center, every time: buy.
Why the hell do I have such weird dreams? For the past fifteen years, I have been an agnostic. I cannot claim to know what’s out there, but I believe that there’s more going on than we can comprehend. My…
