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.