Audrey Watters

Today is International Women's Day, a day that celebrates women -- past and present -- and calls for social justice and gender equity worldwide. I've had this day marked on my calendar/task list for a while: "March 8: Blog about International Women's Day." And I've been considering which historical figure...

I've always been rather fascinated with Hollywood celebrities, due in part to my Uncle Jim's involvement in The Industry. He was the relative I most admired, the one who'd escaped Casper after high school, moved to New York City, got a job working for LIFE and later People, and only...

It goes without saying that the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner was groundbreaking in its depiction of interracial marriage as it was released in 1967, the same year the US Supreme Court outlawed miscegenation laws (of which 17 states at the time still had). Its story is well known:...

I'd planned to write tonight about Luddites -- not the nineteenth century opponents ofindustrialization, mind you, but the folks in my everyday world who despise and resist technology and innovation. They plague me in this lifetime, in my everyday world, Luddites do, clearly some sort of penance for revolutionary treason...

1) My background in role-playing games 2) My background in literature and folklore (and associated with that, my love of stories) In most of the turn-based games one finds on Facebook, there is minimal investment in character development. I think I named myself Diamond Lil when I tried Mafia Wars,...

If you follow me on Twitter or friend me on Facebook or, heck, know me via just about any social media site, you'll see the gargoyle from Notre Dame as my avatar image. Someone at work asked me the other day, "What's with the gargoyle?" to which I replied with...

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Last night was the moment I've waited for for ten years, the chance to put my arms around my friend Jeffrey "Free" Luers and give him a long, hard hug. And another. And another. And a kiss on the cheek. And another hug. I thought my heart would explode with...

Chatroulette has been getting a lot of buzz lately, and while I do have a webcam, I haven't checked the site out (yet). Chatroulette connects you to a video chatroom with a random stranger. And from all reports, it is bizarre, if not disturbing. In 2003, I wrote an essay...

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