Does anyone else get the “Rotunda” allusion from the recipe? I’m excited to see someone else appears to recall the book _Found Goddesses_, illustrated by Alison, way back when. I still pray, nearly daily, to dieties such as Transportia, friend of those who are running frantically for the bus. It features big dollops of humor and considerable wisdom, I very much reccomend it, although it seems to be largely based on a type of Mary-Daly feminism that is not at all my thing… well, a marginal mind must take the bits that work where’er they’re found, eh?

Oh and Jerry, if he’d like to. And Lois, I would definately enjoy hanging out with, and perhaps fool around with in a play-party situation – and heck, I’m not adverse to love, either. Though we both seem to be pretty toppy. What happens when tops collide?!!! I’d be willing to find out, heh…

I actually have mixed feelings. As a longtime mainstream reader (wife, two daughters, house in the burbs), I’m happy to see you get recognition, but I’m also afraid of losing you and DTWOF to other pursuits. Please don’t move to Hollywood and pitch options to producers!

All I know is, I couldn’t stop reading it when I was supposed to be writing final papers for University. Fun Home definitely won out over sleeping.

judybusy, I have no problem in principle with “learnings” as a noun; English often uses gerunds that way. Consider “my earnings.” Or “his leavings.” “Learnings” just annoys you (and me) because you’re not used to it; it’s actually quite an old word in English, used just as that person used it. As are many of the words that annoy us language “conservatives.” I really should get myself a compact OED…

And, since he revived the bad language usage topic,here’s mine: I was attending an all staff meeting at a hospital and the Executive officer got up and started talking about some project “The *learnings* we have taken from this experience include…” I have absolutely no recall what was said after that because I was so appalled by the use of “learnings” as a noun. I have heard it occasionally since then, usually out of the mouth of someone who works in corporate/business.

BTW, if Quaint Irene’s still lurking about, I am still waiting for the Lobster a la Rhisolm recipe….see my post on 12/16…..

As a heterosexual woman my pickings are kinda slim in the DTWO4 cast. I’d go with Carlos, he’s the hottest and possibly the most well adjusted, but he’d never have me. Banging Stewart would be like banging one of my grandmother’s friends.

If I were to forget my sexual orientation I’d go with Lois. Her enthusiasm and skill far outweighs her lack of monogamy. Everyone else is either hooked up or has an axe to grind.

As far as other comic strip characters go, I just haven’t considered the possibilities. I will take this opportunity distance myself from Cathy. She just gives us all a bad name.

Liz in Dublin, any chance you frequented the women’s coffee night at the community centre on Capel street during the summer of 2003? My gf and I were there from Canada.

Cheers, Jen

Here is my saving grace… after I share my little tale with the book mavens, another customer comes in and asks for suggestions for a new book to buy for her gf, she wants it to be something special. I over hear the worker suggest some books and I decide to throw my two cents in. I suggest FH to this inquiring lesbian gift buyer and imagine my surprise, she has not heard about FH. Furthermore, she has not heard of DTWOF! The mavens and I are stunned, like deer in headlights, I then ask her if she is from Minnesota. Minneapolis is her reply! Here we are standing in Amazon, the bookstore where it all started, and this 50 something lesbian has no idea of, has not heard of DTWOF? Didn’t she ever read Equal Time? I press her a little more trying to jog her memory about DTWOF but there is no recall because she really hasn’t heard of your work. At this point, I tell her she must buy FH and DTWOF as well. The mavens and I assure her that her partner will love every minute of it. {Okay, Judy, we now know I am not the last lesbian in North American to know about FH…. just don’t tell anyone you had to tell me about Mary Cheney as well…}