Author Archive for Felicia Gilljam
I’ve been itching to write lately, but haven’t felt comfortable reviving this blog yet again. I think it’s time to let this dead horse rest in peace and move on to greener pasture, with new horses to flog. The pasture in question is a new, pseudonymous blog that I won’t link to directly. Although I’m [...]
Last night I went to a social gathering for Humanists. There was a new member there, an iranian woman, who took a few minutes to introduce herself and suggest that we should reach out to exile iranians and other immigrants, whom are often intellectuals and non-religious. It’s an interesting topic that I won’t spend more [...]
Someone has probably already done this, but still.
Image stolen from the interwebs, inspiration found in The Ancestor’s Tale.
mass extinctions, biology, kanye west
Reading The Ancestor’s Tale.
I have now learned sometihng so shocking that I am still reluctant to beliee it, but it looks as though I am going to have to. Hippos’ closest relatives are whales. The even-toed ungulates include whales!
This makes me think. I was not whatsoever surprised to learn this. And certainly not shocked. I [...]
Today is Blasphemy Day.
I have no original blasphemy to contribute with, because all the clever things have already been said. Here’s a few samples.
There’s plenty more, but I think more than three videos in one post would be overkill. By the way, isn’t it odd how all my favourite comedians seem to be atheists? Is [...]
The other night, I had a dream in which I was visiting the US, where I met Sarah Palin. She brought her daughter into the room where we were conversing - her daughter was called Britney Spears and looked exactly like Hayden Panettiere - and asked me if I couldn’t hang out with her for [...]
I love stories that take real people and put them in impossible, outlandish situations. Basically, if you’re going to make things up, you might as well really go to town on it … but the story still needs to be populated by characters that feel, well, real. This is why I like Battlestar Galactica - [...]
So. It turned out that the light of the end of the tunnel was actually a freight train. The relationship I was in had undergone a steady decline over the past couple of years and since my last blog post back in february, I’d say the pace of deterioration increased quite rapidly. Of course, I [...]
When in a slump, it is nice to compile a list of things that make the light at the end of the tunnel. Here’s a few things I’m looking forward to:
The finale of Battlestar Galactica. With mixed emotions, of course - finale means no more. But I think it’ll be worth it.
Watchmen, the movie. I’m [...]
Eluana Englaro, the comatose woman whom Italian prime minister Berlusconi declared “in the condition to have babies“, died a couple of hours ago. My immediate reaction was a sigh of relief and muttering, ironically, “thank god”.
Regardless of whether one agrees that she should have been taken off life support or not, the political circus surrounding [...]
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