Updates


The Plaid Adder
plaidder@mindspring.com
9/13/05--The fifth Women On Fire novel, Redemption, is now ready for distribution.
6/6/05--Added review of Godspeed by Lynn Breedlove.
5/24/05--Added review of Revenge of the Sith.
5/20/05--Added review of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
9/23/04--Added reviews of Don Juan in the Village, Written On The Body, Tea, Lucky In The Corner, and Desert of the Heart.
7/20/04--Adder reviews of Fahrenheit 911 and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
1/02/04--Added reviews of Return Of The King and Pirates of the Carribbean. Also added links to my Quizilla quizzes in the Women On Fire and Collected Oeuvre sections. Have also formally discontinued the Critique of the Week section now that I have the column at Democratic Underground.
5/21/03--Added When You Whore For Dubya and The Blowback Tango to the song parodies section.
4/27/03--Added new Critique of the Week about Senator Santorum; put up my parody of Tony Blair and his Plagiarized Dossier from a while back.
4/18/03--Reorganized poetry page; added Personal/Political, Shoulder Angel, Our President Gives a Press Conference, and Flowers to I Sing Of Arms And An Idiot. Fixed links on No More Blood so the internal links still work. Added new illustration to Women On Fire pages--careful, it's a spoiler for Darkness Bright.
3/23/03--Announced plans to replace No More Blood with anti-war Livejournal.
2/14/03--Added my tale of media perfidy, "Two Hours in the Memory Hole," as new Critique of the Week.
1/28/03--Added Subterranean Baghdad Blues, in dishonor of George II's State of the Union address.
1/27/03--Updated No More Blood; presented the 2002 Lick Your Own Damn Boots Award to Molly Ivins; added review of The Two Towers.
10/21/02--Added review of Bowling for Columbine.
10/18/02--Updated No More Blood. Added review of Spirited Away. Created new section on Oeuvre page for lesbian fiction reviews. Overhauled the poetry section.
9/25/02--Updated No More Blood for the first time in a while. Added I Sing Of Arms And An Idiot. Opened nominations for the 2002 Lick Your Own Damn Boots Award.
7/26/02--Added link to Women On Fire store at Cafe Press. Mugs! Posters! Tile coasters! Who knows where the madness will end?
7/2/02--Massive No More Blood update; new Critique of the Week; also, I've started a new Women On Fire novel.
5/30/02--Put up review of Attack of the Clones; added old review of Fellowship of the Ring.
5/13/02--New Critique of the Week about bias and the media.
5/1/02--Put up new Critique of the Week about Israel.
4/22/02--Provided map for Collected Oeuvre page to make it easier to navigate; retired restaurant reviews feature after realizing it was never going to be updated again; deleted X-Files fanfic which nobody reads. Also updated No More Blood page for the first time in a while.
2/15/02--Added page on the 2002 Olympic Figure Skating competition, complete with my rant about the pairs judging debacle.
1/23/02--New Critique of the Week about the focus on Bin Ladin's personal evilhood.
1/15/02--Handed out the Plaidder Awards for the 2002 US National Figure Skating Championship
1/?/02--Put up new Critique of the Week about why bombing Afghanistan will not help advance the cause of women's rights.
12/20/01--New review of the Grand Prix finals (it's a figure skating thing).
12/4/01--Put up new Critique of the Week about online censorship.
12/1/01--Presented the Lick Your Own Damn Boots Award to Jon Carroll of the San Francisco Chronicle.
11/26/01--Added review of the Harry Potter movie.
10/24/01--Added new Critique of the Week. Be warned, it's not pretty, nor is it cheerful.
9/28/01--So you know, I'm updating No More Blood (the anti-war page) almost daily, so I'm not posting individual updates to it here. Added new Critique of the Week about Dubya's State of the Union address.
9/18/01--Converted Yalies Against Dubya page into an anti-war page.
9/13/01--Put up my response to the attacks on NYC and DC on Tuesday.
9/8/01--Added review of Apocalypse Now Redux/Hearts of Darkness: The Making of Apocalypse Now; alphabetized film reviews on Oeuvre page.
8/16/01--Added Group Therapy Theory of Flamewars to the Crackpot Theories page.
8/5/01--Added Ivy's art to Moulin Rouge et Noir.
7/25/01--Added MST3King of my notice from Dubya about immediate tax relief, put up description of WOFlink.
7/13/01--Added review of A.I.
7/7/01--Added new Critique of the Week about Dubya's commencement appearance at Yale.
6/15/01--Added review of Moulin Rouge, and another non-canon SA story, Moulin Rouge Et Noir.
5/20/01--Added the epic song of my battle with a computer virus, and how the brave and wise Laura saved me and my computer from ruin.
5/16/01--Added Gynocentric Approach To Driving a Stick to the Crackpot Theories page.
4/26/01--Added review of Champions On Ice 2001; finally caved and created special section for figure skating reviews on the oeuvre page.
4/24/01--Added rant about corporations to Liza's Crackpot Corner.
4/5/01--Added miscellany about the World Figure Skating championships, rant about Elaine Chao, added more links to YADA.
4/4/01--Added picture of the Lythril Birthday Cake I made for Jay; added media links to YADA page.
3/6/01--Added my first novel to the fiction page.
3/4/01--Plaidder slowly begins to understand the concept of "site design." Standardized background/text colors in the WOF and Oeuvre directories, added self-portraits to Woman Behind The Snake and Fiction pages, updated "Lythril for President" graphics and page, installed back buttons on many, many pages. Zimbu's visitors can navigate site now. Zimbu have "overall design concept." Zimbu tired.
2/6/01--Added inaugural poetry links to YADA page.
2/1/01--Added review of Survivor II, awards for U.S. National figure skating championships. Posted two filks to Viecter's Poetry Corner.
1/25/01--Added Ashcroft links to YADA page.
1/18/01--Added The Widening Gyre, an X-File I wrote a couple years ago. Put up WOF Partner Assessment Test.
1/7/01--Added Liza's Crackpot Corner.
1/2/01--Added review of House of Mirth.
12/20/00--Added Yalies Against Dubya page. Join today! Send me links!
12/15/00--Added Lythril T-shirt promo, and page documenting my quest for publication.
12/13/00--Added Critique of the Week about the Supreme court.
11/17/00--Added Under The Sea/YPMB to the Yale Band section; finally credited Katherine with the original site design.
11/15/00--Decided I'll be posting X-Files reviews this season after all. Shoot me now.
11/8/00--Added Blame Florida, my commentary on the non-election of a non-president; review of the South Park movie; added Lythril in 2000 banner to Collected Oeuvre page.
10/18/00--Added review of the Indigo Girls' Honor The Earth tour; added list-in-progress of progressive WOF-related links.
10/8/00--Added review of Mission to Mars and new crackpot theory.
10/3/00--Added Fox's poem, "The Great Wheel," to his captivity narrative.
9/15/00--Posted new critique of the week (it's Dubya's turn!)
9/5/00--Retooled Women On Fire section; added first chapter of Better To Burn
9/1/00--Removed links to dead update list; posted review of Mr. 420; reorganized WOF Hall Of Fame, added updates page.