Author: Amanda Noll (on JOMB) Illustrator: Howard McWilliam (on JOMB) Published: 2009 Flashlight Press (on JOMB) ISBN: 0979974623 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Masterfully lit fisheyed views, fur, fangs, claws and interesting perspectives make seven monsters just scary enough to spotlight the spunk of the ...

I get e-mails and comments to my blog almost every day from people who are either newly diagnosed with cancer or who have a relative who is newly diagnosed.  I am, of course, happy that these people write to me, and I try to do what I can to help. Often, just listening--and maybe telling them ...

My earlier report. (Complete Video) On the ride home, Joey Kurtzman says he used to drive an ambulance and was "trained in the art of defensive driving." Joey: "I chose the Journalistic Ethics class for the purest of reasons. It was just a lovely coincidence [that Danielle Berrin gave...

Image via Wikipedia Browsing the official Pet Shop Boys website, I read one of Neil and Chris’ updates posted thereon, reporting that one of the b-sides (an odd carried-over phrase in these days of digital downloads) for ‘Love Etc’, their next single, is called ‘We’re A...

Image via Wikipedia “People are gay second, they are their job first,” says TV presenter Graham Norton in an interview with The Guardian . How perfectly dreadful. While I’d never want to be described as a gay poet or a gay writer–or at least I’d never want my work defin...

Bailiffs – it’s a tough job but someone’s got to do it.. Oh. Really? Are you sure? The sheer callousness and bare-faced lying of politicians often leaves me wanting to puke or hit someone, but the news that thousands are being forced into bankruptcy and evicted from their homes by ...

Does this man look like a promoter of violence and the leader of a worldwide gang of queerbashing cross-waving thugs to you? Don’t assume he’s liberal just because he’s wearing a dress, a bit of bling, and namechecks ‘love’ once or twice a year…Image via Wikipedia...

Image by david_shankbone via Flickr The news that campaigners in favour of Proposition 8, the twisted piece of legislation passed in California to stop gay couples marrying, are now actively seeking to void the gay marriages that have already taken place has me seething with anger. It shouldn’...

This politician cares, allegedly. He cares deeply. And will work the sick until they drop. If he can find work for them, that is. Image by Learn4Life via Flickr There’s something very odd about the timing of the government’s plans to coerce single mothers with children as young as one, a...

Image via Wikipedia Well whadda ya know. After waiting almost two decades for it to happen, there are at long last some real differences starting to appear between the two main British political parties, if only in how they would each manage the country’s finances in recession rather than in s...