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Comment on Black History Month – Elizabeth Key Grinstead by Susan

Susan — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:51:49 +0000

Hello Patsy,

I am so glad you appreciated the article; thank you very much for writing to let me know. It’s hard enough just to live sometimes (especially in Elizabeth’s circumstances) let alone set a major precedent in the world!

Susan

Comment on Black History Month – Elizabeth Key Grinstead by Patsy Oliver

Patsy Oliver — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:00:09 +0000

I am Elizabeth’s third cousin, ten times removed and really liked your article. You are one of the few who realize, correctly, that she died about 1665, not 1655. A very concise and accurate description of her story. Thank you.

Comment on Tie Skirts for Sale! by Susan

Susan — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:03:32 +0000

Hey, not sure if you still need one, but Lori Stein (of etsy.com) can make a custom order for you if you still need one of these skirts. She can be found here: http://www.etsy.com/people/loristein

Comment on Tie Skirts for Sale! by Katie Henderson

Katie Henderson — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:39:53 +0000

I am very interested in a skirt made from old neckties. I need it to be at least to my ankles in length and I am 5 foot 7. I am curious if there is a website where I can see examples and pictures of these skirts.
Thanks
Katie Henderson

Comment on Tie Skirts for Sale! by Katie Henderson

Katie Henderson — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:38:35 +0000

I was curious on styles as far as length and colors. I need a skirt made out of neck ties for Wheatland this year (Septemer 9-11). Do you have a website where I can see examples and choices to choose from?
Thanks
Katie Henderon

Comment on All About the Artists – Bitter Pie Comix by Susan

Susan — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 03:29:26 +0000

For nearly 10 years I went to Burning Man for free by working for the Department of Public Works; I got them to pay me (a mere 5’2″ bottle-blonde female) to learn about and then drive 40,000 pound rough terrain forklifts, rig 38,000 square foot tents, operate 80′ aerial boom lifts and do major construction for art projects. I got my job because I spent 3 months making a documentary on the building of Black Rock City with funds I earned while working construction to put myself through college, and I lived in the desert with a bunch of construction workers, road kids, amateur (and real) scientists, military men, train travelers, naturopathic hippies who existed on nothing but vegetables and cigarettes, and circus punks who spent all year earning a living on the festival circuit.

As for yuppies, there are some at Burning Man (there are yuppies everywhere!), but characterizing the entire event by what I think is an uneducated (by circumstance) opinion — without fully exploring the Eleusinian background of the event and all of the positive things that have come from people at Burning Man coming together after an event that changed their lives to improve their communities (I can send you a list of public works projects and charities started because people met at Burning Man that NEVER would have gained traction had the participants not met there) — is sort of like someone saying they hate all comic books because they read stuff from Marvel and DC Comics that totally made them blow chunks once.

For more information on me, I maintain a website about my previous work in the desert and my documentary here: http://www.angelfire.com/film/quietgirlproductions/
I’m happy to send you a copy of my doc on building BRC for free — as I love your comics — and I think it’ll give you another side of Burning Man that goes far beyond some fancy yuppies who use it as an excuse to blow money on tutus and get away from their purebred dogs for a week.

Comment on Women’s History Month : Lise Meitner by Susan

Susan — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 03:14:40 +0000

I wanted to write a short series on women’s history so that OTHER PEOPLE — meaning readers — might be interested enough to do more research on their own. I’m not Lise’s biographer, but merely someone who is trying to add a little bit more positive information to the world about the women who have really done something to deserve our praise. Where’s your blog? What are you doing to add to peoples’ knowledge of the women of the world?

Aside from that, giving you every single fact in a blog entry not only isn’t possible or practical, your demand that I do so in order for you to comment makes me wonder where you’re really coming from. Lise had a lot of accomplishments — far too many for a short blog (as opposed to a LONG BOOK) — and I’m here to impart a few facts so that people learning about women’s history can carry the torch further. Also, I already stated that the FAMILY believed in education, that her mother raised 8 kids, her father was an attorney (the remark that apparently means, to you, that I don’t care about her mother) and that BOTH parents encouraged the children to get an education. If YOU know something about Lise’s mother that I don’t, by all means educate me here and do something positive yourself — something besides complaining — and then we can both say we made a contribution to women’s history! Whining about what isn’t here without adding more real information to the page makes you look like a misandric bigot, even if you might not be.

Comment on All About the Artists – Bitter Pie Comix by tena

tena — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:02:16 +0000

thanks for the review susan! have to tell you though, the burning man is for yuppies button was born out of watching people (who never would have gone to it 12 years ago) spend over $5000 buying costumes and crap for their big escape from the real world. it just made me think, “if people spent this much time, energy and money on improving their Own Neighborhoods and Communities, how much better off would we all be!?” ya know!? and now…i couldn’t afford to get in even if i wanted to, so there’s that.
anyway, thanks again!

Comment on Women’s History Month : Lise Meitner by Mary

Mary — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:53:35 +0000

Does it tell anything about her family?

Comment on Women’s History Month : Merit-Ptah by Susan

Susan — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:02:53 +0000

This is simply the stupidest spam I’ve gotten all week, and I thought I should share it with my actual readers. I love it when people who obviously can’t string a sentence together properly criticize the way I write; it’s ironic, inscrutable (to a degree) and just plain weird. Feel free to tell Rosalinda this yourselves; she seems like she needs a little help!