Bitchin' Blog Posts : Swans

Doc Turtle’s Infamous Army

December 24, 2008 | Wednesday | 42 Comments

We wish you a Merry Christmas, and some awesome reviews! Ladies and gentlemen, the hottest Math professor reviewing romance: DocTurtle! Additional Chapters! Intrigue! Subterfuge! Sarcasm! It’s Georgette Heyer’s An Infamous Army, chapters 4-8. read more »

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

August 27, 2008 | Wednesday | 203 Comments

To say I was angsty as a teenager is something of a majestic understatement. I was miserable, for a host of reasons. And I had suitably angsty intense relationships with really awful, unsuitable, self absorbed guys who were interested more in screwing with my already ruffled emotions than they were any genuine efforts at being a couple. One particular guy was an absolute waste, and I am horrified that I spent so much time trying to make this fool happy. Reading Twilight reminds me heavily of my angsty teen self, and how ridiculous it was that I expected rainbows and… read more »

“White Underwear Has Never Looked So Good”

August 01, 2008 | Friday | 12 Comments

What do you get when you cross ballet, Matthew Bourne, incredibly lithe ballet dancers, white underwear, and tongue-so-in-cheek visual puns? You get AWESOME that’s what you get! Thanks to Sandra Schwab for the link and the quote that provided the title to the entry. For more on Matthew Bourne, his version of Swan Lake and this particular piece, “Spitfire,” this article explains much: One of Bourne’s earliest pieces, Spitfire, is a dance for four men “modeled on the ballerinas’ pas de quatre-tutu thing,” which caused quite a stir in his homeland. Bourne customed the men not in dance outfits but… read more »

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