I hate to get all serious and controversial, but I see a growing global trend of preposterous legalities. There has recently been a man in Australia jailed for buying/watching animated sex involving characters like children. It shouldn’t be surprising given Australia’s zero tolerance position (that and more found in this wikipedia article: legal status of cartoon pornography depicting minors). But a whole cacophony of details make this story icky all over.
Before we launch into the meat of them let’s consider how damning the man’s legal/behavior history is with previous convictions for assaulting teenagers. Now that we’ve considered that let’s stop thinking about it. It is not the point here.Continue reading Heavens help me, I’m reading the news
I’ve talked about it, and I have constantly deflected questions and nagging from a friend who thinks it is good and I ‘need to get off my butt and edit it already.’ Penelope Sea and Ocean End is the first book I ever wrote. It’s not even 20,000 words – which is hilarious in light of my NaNoWriMo endeavors.
I had the flu most of Christmas break. This is one of the few drawings I managed to squeeze out of my mind/hand while I was sick. I found it. And now that the memory of how terribly I felt is almost gone, I kind of like the drawing. It could be a good logo or tattoo for something or other, except that it has my face on it.
