I’m not sure whether to go for more of a Yellow Wallpaper or Captive Cat flavor here. But I have a job that I can do from home. I have remote access. And, yeah… My kid sister is now laid off, well, “on stand-by” so she can get unemployment while they wait and see if… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #646 – Day 3 of my Confinement…
First, if you want to get the nitty gritty on COVID-19, then check out the Ologies episode on it. Super informative. Washington state has closed schools for 6 weeks until April 27th. The small independent airline my sister works for has laid off all their pilots, and has cut the office staff back to 50%.… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #645 – Life in the Time of COVID-19
Literally, BleedingCool and Comic Book News are the only two places discussing this after the initial splash. And no matter how often I block Bleeding Cool, they keep showing up on my Google feed when I open the browser. Seriously. I keep hitting “NOT THIS PAGE!” But, there it is. Sigh. Now, the rumor mill… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #644 – DC Comics will be FINE.
Cat De-Sharpening Day! Today (Sunday) was the day I dragged the nail trimmers out and victimized cats. Moose does something I had never seen a cat do before… He clenches his hind feet into tight little fists that it is really hard to extract claws from to trim them. Ayla just bit me. The Enemy… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #643 – Everyone’s Least Favorite Holiday…
How many of you remember The Andromeda Strain? It’s not great, but it is entertaining. I couldn’t get through reading it, but I did listen to an audiobook version when I was driving back and forth over the pass a lot. It was fun, very much in the vein of popcorn and beer “thriller” that… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #642 – Life Inside a Michael Crichton Novel
Ok, so we finished watching the rest of the Harley Quinn series on DC Unlimited. While it does have it’s problematic issues (depictions of many villains being Jewish, for one), there was a lot in the series that I did like. Harley’s liberation from the Joker was fantastic, and the bond of friendship between Harley… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #641 – The last episode of Harley Quinn and New Colored Pencils
So, in my post about disposing of your beloved collections after you die, or before, one of the points I added toward the end was “Get over yourself.” I said this because I have heard people be complete shits when they decided the things they were giving to charity weren’t going to be used in… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #640 – What I Meant when I said “Get over yourself.”
