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I bought blackglass.org in July of ’99 and it’s still around.  Actually both domains I own are still around.  They’ve just been a little forgotten in the last few years.  Life has a way of making you busy and priorities get thrown out the window in exchange for new ones.

I’d like to say that this year will be different.  I want to move this blog over to the main site and actually make that my personal space.  Of course that means having to look into how to transfer my wordpress install, and then I have to come up with a layout…and suddenly, real life work seems more interesting….

I have, however, promised myself to write more.  I need to write more.  We’ll see how that goes.

I was going to write a letter to you- the third of many.  It seems like every year I have to say something.  I miss you.  Where are you?  I miss you.  What am I really missing?

I suppose I need to pass on to the phase where I really shouldn’t give a damn.  I actually don’t give a damn, but nostalgia has a funny way of creeping up on you right when you least want it.  Thanks for the memories, but go on ahead and let me regret too.  The would have’s. The could have been’s.  The what-ifs.  I know I’m a different person now, an off shoot of what I imagined myself to be.  I like me now too.  But somehow, no matter what I do, I can’t forget you.

I also can’t ignore the word: catfish.

You’ll end up being a figment of my imagination.  The tormented soul with a gift for prose.  Alive or dead?  Hope you had fun.

And happy birthday.  It will be my last gift to you.

Lego’s First Minifigure in a Wheelchair is Embarrassingly Overdue
Bowing to public pressure, Lego has finally released its first minifig in a wheelchair. The latest Lego figurine was one of several recently showcased at the Nuremberg Toy Fair.

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A Mentally Disabled Mother Lost Her Newborn and Fought Until She Got Her Back
People joke that parenthood should come via license, like driving, and that you shouldn’t be allowed to have children unless you pass a test. Lisa Miller’s New York magazine story about one mother in Massachusetts makes that idea—and the parental and disability rights controversies that accompany it—real.

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Disabled Fans and Creators Are Kept Out of Too Many Conventions. Now They’re Not Alone.
Science fiction and fantasy conventions exist in the venn diagram between professional networking events, marketing expos and fan celebrations. Between all three of those things, they do a lot to shape fandom and the stories we love. And for years now, conventions have been failing disabled fans and professionals. So now, at last, some professionals are signing a pledge that they won’t go to any convention that does not take disabled accessibilit…

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Netflix’s Jessica Jones Is a Complex Portrait of a Woman Undone
Jessica Jones, the second of Netflix’s original series drawn from Marvel comics, is the smartest entry into television’s already crowded cast of superheroes. Created by Melissa Rosenberg, best known for writing the Twilight movies, and starring the sardonic Krysten Ritter, the show is a slow unravelling of a familiar genre, featuring a heroine who struggles to maintain control after it’s been stolen from her by the villainous Kilgrave (played to …

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‘Gate A-4’: An Arab Woman Traveling Alone
Editor’s note: This short story titled “Gate A-4″ is from Honeybee, a collection of poems and short stories written by Naomi Shihab Nye and published in 2008. In the wake of …

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Theme from da Vinci’s Demons (Extended Version) – Bear McCreary
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‘They treat us like dogs’: 27 women detained in Texas immigration center begin hunger strike
Nearly 30 women at an immigration detention facility in Texas have begun a hunger strike. In their letters, made public by a civil rights group, they highlight “grave injustices,” detentions of up to 18 months, inedible food, and “little or no security.”

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