It seems to have become fashionable in Jane Austen Fan Fiction Fanon, particularly at fanfiction.net but leaking elsewhere, in the past year to use the word “frippery” to mean adornment or decoration or baubles. Every time I see it seems like it is an…
Category: ideas + opinions
Ideas, opinions, and editorials of Ms. Jen and the greater outside world.
Humans! You Need To Breed For Capitalism!!!
This week a number of the major media outlets are WHINING that you, yes you, have not bred enough new humans for Capitalism. Why are you slacking off? Capitalism needs you to provide new consumers for the beast. At the very least, governments need…
Hi, My Name is Jen. And I Like Cold, A Lot.
Wed. 03.03.21 – For a year now, the world has been on fire and people are dying. The self same world has been getting hotter and hotter for years now, and honestly folks, said world has been on fire and rather shit for some…
First Day of the Rest of Our Lives
Today at 11:49 am Eastern Standard Time, I sang the Doxology to myself. Then I sang Amazing Grace along with everyone else as I watched the last part of the Biden/Harris Inauguration on my tablet and delighted in Ms. Gorman’s poem. The two hours…
A Verbal Eats Shoots Leaves Problem
In her 2003 book, “Eats, Shoots & Leaves“, Lynn Truss points out the problems of a lack of punctuation or too much punctuation in terms of meaning and how the reader parses the words. If one is a panda bear: one eats shoots &…
The Interiority of 2020
Mon. 08.03.20 – Hello, August. Funny seeing you here in this weird year. I feel that I am caught in a spiral of interiority. Not the downward, sinking spiral of lethargic depression, but another type of spiral – one that takes me increasingly inward…
Happy Solstice, Milky Way Season, Plus a Photo of NGC 6231 from June 2019
06.21.20 – Whether you are in the northern longest day or the southern longest night, I hope you enjoy your extra sunlight or starlight this weekend. If you are in a space with a good night sky, get out and enjoy the Milky Way…
Thursday the 18th of June in the Year of Folded, Mashed, Stretched Time
Thurs. 06.18.20 – Yes, I persist in writing my time stamps as MM.DD.YY. Speaking of time, once again, it seems as if years have passed since March and yet it was just last week or two ago. My intense Covid dreams have faded to…