Cabinet Sanchez is only one of the amusing spam-inspired characters at Spamusement.

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I’ll be on The End of Politics, 1160 A.M. in the DC area tonight around 8:15 to talk about my recent piece on anti-transgendered discrimination at the Library of Congress. If you’re outside the D.C. area, you can listen online (or, later, via the archives) here.

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From a piece on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. (Hat tip: Kat Arthur)

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I look at a case of apparent discrimination against gender crossers at the Library of Congress in “A Good Fit”.

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Fans of Philip Glass got a pleasant surprise in this week’s episode of Battlestar Galactica when Starbuck visited her old home on Caprica (now a Cylon occupied wasteland) and popped in a recording ostensibly of her father playing the piano. It was, in fact, Glass’ sublimely beautiful “Metamorphosis One” from Solo Piano. Interestingly—I don’t have […]

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So, that parentalism article from a little while back provoked a variety of responses. Brad DeLong, who regards it as a kind of self-evident proof of the insanity of non-utilitarian views, just quotes a long stretch of the piece and reports that his “head explodes” when he reaches my claim that it may sometimes be […]

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It was nice to meet Belle Waring at a Blogorama earlier this week; I’ll confess some small level of amusement that her first words to me, loosely paraphrased, were: You’re Julian Sanchez? Gosh, I hadn’t expected you to look like some scruffy hipster.

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Belle Waring of John & Belle Have a Blog and Crooked Timber is in town, and Jim Henley has called a Blogorama. Pop by Rendezvous Lounge at 18th and Kalorama in Adams Morgan tonight, starting at 7:30.

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Some fun stuff this week. Tonight: Liberteaser/Liberty Belles happy hour at Saint-Ex around 6pm. Then a little later in the evening, the soon-to-be-defunct Q and not U are playing one of their final shows (free!) at Fort Reno. Wednesday: A DC Metblog Party at Felix. Then a screening at Stead Park of The Rocky Horror […]

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Amy forwards along this New York Times piece on the new SciFi Channel incarnation of Battlestar Galactica. It’s frankly a little mindblowing to see that old BG fans were (and apparently some still are) hostile toward what is now clearly one of the smartest, most richly textured things on TV—a data point in support of […]

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