Last weekend’s Saturday Night Live show featured a skit about Olivia Cruises. It’s crude and obvious, revolving around the ship captain’s prurient thoughts regarding lesbians. Still, the women get the final word, and Olivia itself is promoting the skit via its e-mail list. I figure that being made fun of on SNL connotes a certain […]
Just in time for the holidays, I’m relaunching an updated Mombian Shop, chock full of books, music, videos, toys, baby gear, and lots of things for house and home. You’ll find items geared towards children of same-sex parents and items celebrating lesbian culture, but also more general categories of products. We’re a diverse lot, really,
Showtime’s Web site is now stating that the new season of The L Word will premiere January 7, 2007, making me ask once again “Where did the summer go?” Still, I’ll be happy to see the gals soon. I’ve had enough wallowing in LGBT politics and I want some pure escapism, dammit. New cast members
Americans under 30 voted in the largest numbers for midterm elections in at least 20 years, and may have made a difference in the many close races. Young people favored Democrats by 22 points, nearly three times the Democratic margin among other age groups. Some say this indicates a rising Democratic bloc that could be
Sesame Street today featured one of its human characters, Gina the Veterinarian, adopting a baby from Guatemala. The amazing thing wasn’t just that they covered adoption, but that they also chose a single mom for the adoptive mother. (We’ll see if the right wing jumps all over this like they jumped on Murphy Brown, or
If you’re looking for some new kids’ music that won’t drive you crazy with squeaky voices or repetitive catch-phrases, try Choo Choo Boogaloo by Buckwheat Zydeco. Best known for his Grammy-nominated zydeco music for adults, Buckwheat and his band have put out an engaging children’s album that manages to be fun without being cutesy. It’s
A trashy lesbian romance? A dark allegory about modern life? A young-adult mystery? If you think you have it in you, give it a try during National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), in which participants attempt to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel between November 1 and November 30. The object is not necessarily to produce a
The Internet is awash with lesbian celebrity news right now. AfterEllen.com reports that Bravo has picked up a second season of Workout, starring lesbian fitness trainer Jackie Warner. Filming starts in November; no word yet on when it will air. Because it’s the weekend, here’s a fun and frivolous question to comment on: If you
Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels have announced the birth of their twins, son Miller Steven and daughter Johnnie Rose. Tammy gave birth to them last Tuesday, and according to Melissa’s Web site, both she and the babies are in excellent health. The couple also issued the statement: “The creation of life brings about immeasurable
Willa Cather is next in the series, providing us with several portraits: The woman in the chaise longue was still alone. She lay there all day, looking at the sea. The little girl, Carin, played noisily about the deck. Occasionally she returned and struggled up into the chair, plunged her head, round and red as
