Hey all the new issue is up! Check it out at www.shebytches.com
Carolina's Bytch An Extinct Breed
Right now I am fighting to stay awake. My recent bout with insomnia has me feeling exhausted. Sure it's beneficial, no sleeping means more time to write. Not sleeping also allows me to think, too much. I should be using my brain power to come up with devious plans on how to take over the world, or write, or finish off my second book proposal, rather than do that, the last two nights I have been trying to figure out why I have this awful pit in my stomach, again.
Heather Wood Happily ever after… or not.
Earlier this year two University of Pennsylvania researchers, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, released a paper called "The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness".
Romy Shiller Double Standard?
When I'm good I'm very, very good but when I'm bad I'm better.
- Mae West
Maybe this is a booty call. Do females do that? Do I care? I think many women are worried about seeming desperate or as being perceived as a slut. Do males worry about those things? Dictionary.com defines double standard as "[a] set of principles permitting greater opportunity or liberty to one than to another, especially the granting of greater sexual freedom to men than to women."
Viki Ackland Stick to your DO list
I have always been prone to writing pro and con lists when undecided about things that my head is quite decided about.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
2009 Toronto Zombie Walk Fiendraiser
On July 18, the dead shall rise and descend on the Smiling Buddha Bar for the second annual Toronto Zombie Walk Fiendraiser.
Prepare for an evening of ear-splitting monster bands and spooktacular giveaways. All the money raised from the Fiendraiser will go towards the operating costs of this year's Toronto Zombie Walk.
Only seven people attended the first Zombie Walk, held in Toronto in 2003, but the ghoulish plague has since spread across the globe. Zombie Walks are now held throughout Canada, the United States, England, Australia and Israel. Last year's sixth annual Toronto Zombie Walk drew a record-breaking crowd of over 2,000 living dead!
The Zombie Walk is now bigger than ever. Organizers have been forced to obtain permits to stage this year's walk, scheduled for October 24th.
The Toronto Zombie Walk Fiendraiser will be held at The Smiling Buddha Bar (961 College St. W) on the ghoulish night of July 18th. Doors open at 9 p.m. Bands include The Screamagers {http://www.myspace.com/screamagers}, The Ralcones {http://www.myspace.com/raclones} and Skullians {http://www.myspace.com/skullians}.
Plus special end of the night set with Horror Biz!
http://www.myspace.com/horrorbiz
Come in Zombie gear for discounted tickets, as well as a chance to win our Zombie costume contest. Raffle prizes include gift certificates from Yonge Street Tattoos, leather chokers and passes to the opening night of the Toronto After Dark Film Festival.
You don't want to miss the flesh-eating event of the summer. Come and partake in the Toronto Zombie Walk's second annual Fiendraiser and help us continue to raise the dead every October.
Tickets:
$7 for Zombies!
$10 for Non Zombies
Prize packs donated by the following sponsors:
It’s My Party
Creeped Out Canada
Darkside
Anchor Bay Entertainment
The Krafty Kreep
Yonge Street Tattoos
Toronto After Dark Film Festival
Malabar
Toxic Avenger the Musical
2-Mile Jewellry
Burning Effigy Books
Tightrope Books
AAAAAH-Films.com
Creepy Christine
Invader Press
Cry Wolf Clothing
Quirk Books
The Rock Ons
Schizophrenic Records
The Screamagers
Monday, July 6, 2009
July issue of lipstikindie.com
Hey all, the new issue of lipstikindie.com is ready for your viewing pleasure!
Check out our featured artist Nashira Dernesch as reviewed by Anne F. Walker. Anne reviewed Nashira’s It’s No Secret You’ll Feel Better and The Snowing Under. Anne also reviewed Jan Steckel’s The Underwater Hospital.
Also in the July Issue are Reviews by:
Nik Beat - The Rizdales and Michelle Mangione
Laura Roberts - Snazzy Girl
Matt Gilbert - The Notorious Newman Brothers
Viki Ackland - Mink and The Fat Dukes of Fuck
Carolina Smart - Fresh Blood and Primeval Woods from Burning Effigy and the always sassy High Heels Lofi
Check out our featured artist Nashira Dernesch as reviewed by Anne F. Walker. Anne reviewed Nashira’s It’s No Secret You’ll Feel Better and The Snowing Under. Anne also reviewed Jan Steckel’s The Underwater Hospital.
Also in the July Issue are Reviews by:
Nik Beat - The Rizdales and Michelle Mangione
Laura Roberts - Snazzy Girl
Matt Gilbert - The Notorious Newman Brothers
Viki Ackland - Mink and The Fat Dukes of Fuck
Carolina Smart - Fresh Blood and Primeval Woods from Burning Effigy and the always sassy High Heels Lofi
Monday, June 29, 2009
New Issue of Shebytches.com is alive!!!
Guest Writer
Oneal Walters - Poetry
WHAT'S NEW
Carolina's Bytch - The Baffling Events That Single Women Everywhere Have To Endure
I had an awesome conversation last night with the amazing and talented Kim. I've had a couple rough days, partly due to my own inner demons, partly due some incredibly hurtful things that were said to me. After the conversation, I was able to shake that last bit of crabbiness that was still lingering around.
Heather Wood - SAVED BY THE SUMMER BELL
Well, we're not having a summer election after all. Our barbecues and patio gatherings are safe from annoying interruptions by party canvassers and political campaign calls. More importantly, we now have more time to tackle an on-going problem – the lack of female representation in Parliament.
Pixie Says - Ask the Japanese government to ban video-game rape simulators pt. 2
So my previous post about the Equality Now campaign to ban rape-simulator video games in Japan provoked some discussion on Facebook. One of my friends countered that fantasy is a space that should not be policed: as a feminist, I agree with him, which got me thinking that...
Romy Shiller - POP goes the TEEN
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. ~ Fran Lebowitz
Simply skimming. Images of youth in popular culture. Not Toddlers and Tiaras (2009) about toddler beauty pageants, which makes me sick or the 20-something hot bods in the new Star Trek (2009), I am such a Cougar - "an older woman who sexually pursues men at least eight years her junior."(Wikipedia) I am discussing teenagers and tweens - "the stage between middle childhood and adolescence in human development, generally in the age range of 10 to 12 years of age." (Wikipedia).
and
Romy Shiller - LETTER TO THE EDITOR: MS. MAGAZINE FEATURING BARACK OBAMA ON THE COVER OF Issue: WINTER 2009
According to the book Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts it in a Box by the head of women's studies at South-Carolina U., Merri Lisa Johnson, I'm a third wave feminist.
Viki Ackland - End of the Road
I am not really a girly girl. Like a lot of my friends and peers I am independent, self assured and have a rather high opinion of my worth. I have a clear idea of what I deserve, what I want, and what I will not tolerate, and the only rare time my Libra self gets out of balance is when one of those equations are missing.
Oneal Walters - Poetry
WHAT'S NEW
Carolina's Bytch - The Baffling Events That Single Women Everywhere Have To Endure
I had an awesome conversation last night with the amazing and talented Kim. I've had a couple rough days, partly due to my own inner demons, partly due some incredibly hurtful things that were said to me. After the conversation, I was able to shake that last bit of crabbiness that was still lingering around.
Heather Wood - SAVED BY THE SUMMER BELL
Well, we're not having a summer election after all. Our barbecues and patio gatherings are safe from annoying interruptions by party canvassers and political campaign calls. More importantly, we now have more time to tackle an on-going problem – the lack of female representation in Parliament.
Pixie Says - Ask the Japanese government to ban video-game rape simulators pt. 2
So my previous post about the Equality Now campaign to ban rape-simulator video games in Japan provoked some discussion on Facebook. One of my friends countered that fantasy is a space that should not be policed: as a feminist, I agree with him, which got me thinking that...
Romy Shiller - POP goes the TEEN
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. ~ Fran Lebowitz
Simply skimming. Images of youth in popular culture. Not Toddlers and Tiaras (2009) about toddler beauty pageants, which makes me sick or the 20-something hot bods in the new Star Trek (2009), I am such a Cougar - "an older woman who sexually pursues men at least eight years her junior."(Wikipedia) I am discussing teenagers and tweens - "the stage between middle childhood and adolescence in human development, generally in the age range of 10 to 12 years of age." (Wikipedia).
and
Romy Shiller - LETTER TO THE EDITOR: MS. MAGAZINE FEATURING BARACK OBAMA ON THE COVER OF Issue: WINTER 2009
According to the book Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts it in a Box by the head of women's studies at South-Carolina U., Merri Lisa Johnson, I'm a third wave feminist.
Viki Ackland - End of the Road
I am not really a girly girl. Like a lot of my friends and peers I am independent, self assured and have a rather high opinion of my worth. I have a clear idea of what I deserve, what I want, and what I will not tolerate, and the only rare time my Libra self gets out of balance is when one of those equations are missing.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
The Baffling Events That Single Women Everywhere Have To Endure
I had an awesome conversation last night with the amazing and talented Kim. I’ve had a couple rough days, partly due to my own inner demons, partly due some incredibly hurtful things that were said to me. After the conversation, I was able to shake that last bit of crabbiness that was still lingering around. Kim reminded me that we have a purpose and nothing, not even peoples stupid words should affect how I feel about myself.
Single, Independent, Strong
When I was 18 I moved away from home. Since then I’ve looked after myself. I’ve always been a very independent, self reliant single female. {with the exception of one long term relationship, in which I was still looking after myself} I’m not going to lie and say I don’t need to have companionship. Hell, I would love to meet that one person who does it for me on all levels. Who wouldn’t? After having two crappy crappy relationships in a row, along with too many jerks in between, I’ve started to wonder if that is even possible and come this July it will be exactly 1 year since I’ve dated. {as I keep telling everyone, I’m on strike till conditions improve, obviously they haven’t}
Embracing your single woman status comes with bonuses, such as freedom and the comfort of knowing that you only answer to you. The not so pleasant flip side of this though, are the BS conversations we have to put up with. The majority of the time it will be ignorant people making lame attempts to hurt your feelings. Occasionally it is people who are ‘concerned’ and feel that all women should be in relationships {even when their own are less than satisfactory}. The first conversation was one I had just a few days ago {and part of what spawned this whole entry}, the rest have happened over time.
“Where is your date?”
“Date?”
“But, it’s Friday night.”
“So.”
“You should be on a date.”
“It’s hard to be on a date if no one asks.”
“Oh come on, I’m sure someone has asked recently.”
“No, not really, no.”
“Well, you are kind of intimidating. You might want to try being nicer.” {fyi, this conversation was with a man, who has a girlfriend, and he was staring at my breasts for most of the evening}
“You know what, you can just bite me.”
What’s the deal with marriage anyway... or questions I’ve had to put up with since I was 21...
“When do you plan on getting married?”
“I’m single.”
“I know, when do you plan on getting married?”
{this usually goes on for a while, like the ‘whose on third’ Abbott and Costello routine, it either ends with me considering banging my head on cement till I’m in a coma or drinking}
Visual aide - Woman your own age is looking at you like you just farted.
“Still single I see.”
{to some being single equates to leprosy or some similar disease}
“Oh you poor thing, being single must be so lonely.”
“Well, at least you have your dogs to keep you company.”
A Mother’s Love
Occasionally mother’s of single women have to endure stupid questions. My Mother is my biggest champion, never taking any guff and telling people to either mind their own business or now her latest “My daughter doesn’t need a man.” Of course that occasionally backfires on her...
These are just a few questions that she has had to deal with and I love her to pieces for voicing out!
“Is you daughter ever getting married?”
or
“What’s wrong with your oldest daughter? All of your other children are either married or have kids?”
“She doesn’t need to.”
“Is your daughter gay?”
“Even if she was it’s none of your business.”
“Shouldn’t she be married by now?”
“Who says she needs to be married?”
I was told my Mother has even taken to cursing at people....
Lets take a moment to think about this, if my own Mother doesn’t worry about me being on my own, why is it so disconcerting to the rest of you? Why is such a biggie for a woman to be single? Rather than ridicule us, or be concerned for us, why not do what the rest of us do. Be proud of us. We are strong, independent women and if you don’t stop picking on us, I’m sending my mother after you.
Single, Independent, Strong
When I was 18 I moved away from home. Since then I’ve looked after myself. I’ve always been a very independent, self reliant single female. {with the exception of one long term relationship, in which I was still looking after myself} I’m not going to lie and say I don’t need to have companionship. Hell, I would love to meet that one person who does it for me on all levels. Who wouldn’t? After having two crappy crappy relationships in a row, along with too many jerks in between, I’ve started to wonder if that is even possible and come this July it will be exactly 1 year since I’ve dated. {as I keep telling everyone, I’m on strike till conditions improve, obviously they haven’t}
Embracing your single woman status comes with bonuses, such as freedom and the comfort of knowing that you only answer to you. The not so pleasant flip side of this though, are the BS conversations we have to put up with. The majority of the time it will be ignorant people making lame attempts to hurt your feelings. Occasionally it is people who are ‘concerned’ and feel that all women should be in relationships {even when their own are less than satisfactory}. The first conversation was one I had just a few days ago {and part of what spawned this whole entry}, the rest have happened over time.
“Where is your date?”
“Date?”
“But, it’s Friday night.”
“So.”
“You should be on a date.”
“It’s hard to be on a date if no one asks.”
“Oh come on, I’m sure someone has asked recently.”
“No, not really, no.”
“Well, you are kind of intimidating. You might want to try being nicer.” {fyi, this conversation was with a man, who has a girlfriend, and he was staring at my breasts for most of the evening}
“You know what, you can just bite me.”
What’s the deal with marriage anyway... or questions I’ve had to put up with since I was 21...
“When do you plan on getting married?”
“I’m single.”
“I know, when do you plan on getting married?”
{this usually goes on for a while, like the ‘whose on third’ Abbott and Costello routine, it either ends with me considering banging my head on cement till I’m in a coma or drinking}
Visual aide - Woman your own age is looking at you like you just farted.
“Still single I see.”
{to some being single equates to leprosy or some similar disease}
“Oh you poor thing, being single must be so lonely.”
“Well, at least you have your dogs to keep you company.”
A Mother’s Love
Occasionally mother’s of single women have to endure stupid questions. My Mother is my biggest champion, never taking any guff and telling people to either mind their own business or now her latest “My daughter doesn’t need a man.” Of course that occasionally backfires on her...
These are just a few questions that she has had to deal with and I love her to pieces for voicing out!
“Is you daughter ever getting married?”
or
“What’s wrong with your oldest daughter? All of your other children are either married or have kids?”
“She doesn’t need to.”
“Is your daughter gay?”
“Even if she was it’s none of your business.”
“Shouldn’t she be married by now?”
“Who says she needs to be married?”
I was told my Mother has even taken to cursing at people....
Lets take a moment to think about this, if my own Mother doesn’t worry about me being on my own, why is it so disconcerting to the rest of you? Why is such a biggie for a woman to be single? Rather than ridicule us, or be concerned for us, why not do what the rest of us do. Be proud of us. We are strong, independent women and if you don’t stop picking on us, I’m sending my mother after you.
Monday, June 1, 2009
New issue is alive!!!
Happy June 1st everyone. Even though we still don't have the summer temperatures we are all wanting, this months issue of Lipstik Indie (www.lipstikindie.com) should heat things up! This is what we have in store for you:
Featured Artist - Jeff Cottrill (carolina smart)
Books - Garbageman by Joseph D'lacey (carolina smart), Raincloud by Richard S. Todd (cathy petch)
Bands - Skulls (Misfit Tribute Artists) (carolina smart), The Populars (nik beat)
eZine/store - Herbivore (laura roberts)
Movie - Still We Ride (matt gilbert)
Music Artists - Gary Beals (devon jones), Bendicion (nik beat), A.K.A. Subliminal (devon jones)
Featured Artist - Jeff Cottrill (carolina smart)
Books - Garbageman by Joseph D'lacey (carolina smart), Raincloud by Richard S. Todd (cathy petch)
Bands - Skulls (Misfit Tribute Artists) (carolina smart), The Populars (nik beat)
eZine/store - Herbivore (laura roberts)
Movie - Still We Ride (matt gilbert)
Music Artists - Gary Beals (devon jones), Bendicion (nik beat), A.K.A. Subliminal (devon jones)
Monday, May 25, 2009
New Issue of Shebytches.com is alive!!!
Hey Everyone! The new issue of Shebytches is alive. Please swing on over to www.shebytches.com to check it out. Below is what is hot off the presses!
GUEST WRITER
Oneal Walters - Poetry - Picture of Love, Untitled, Can’t Find Love In Arguing (The Age Begins)
WHAT'S NEW
Carolina's - Bytch Two Journeys - I am about to start two very different journeys; one involves a possible move and the other a four-legged ten-year-old fur ball. Both are going to be tough and likely expensive, but one won't stop the other from happening or vice versa.
Cindyloohoo So long fat girl! - After a lifetime of being overweight (and many years of being "morbidly obese"), I decided last year to get rid of this massive chip on my shoulder (and off my ass) and have gastric bypass surgery. Nine months later and I feel great.
Nancy Drew - "On Living Bravely" - I was at Moonbean Café the other day with a friend whose life is going really well. She just moved out of her parent’s house after living with them for three years while in school for naturopathic medicine. It was a grueling three years.
Heather Wood - I've read this story before - Much as I like to claim that I am only 29, I was actually born in the "Swinging Sixties"—that progressive era when it was perfectly acceptable to fire a woman just for being pregnant.
Pixie Says - Stand Up for Judy Blume -- and, while I have your attention, ask the Japanese government to ban video-game rape simulators - When I was 13, I was hauled up before the headmistress at my school because some of my friends' parents had found them reading my copy of Judy Blume's legendary novel Forever (with the *important* pages dog-eared, of course).
Romy Shiller - People seem to abhor ‘difference’ - I was so mad when Adam Lambert didn’t win American Idol (2009). It is just a TV show but it says a hell of a lot. He wears nail polish, eyeliner, some people say he is gay and he is called by the show a “glam rocker.”
GUEST WRITER
Oneal Walters - Poetry - Picture of Love, Untitled, Can’t Find Love In Arguing (The Age Begins)
WHAT'S NEW
Carolina's - Bytch Two Journeys - I am about to start two very different journeys; one involves a possible move and the other a four-legged ten-year-old fur ball. Both are going to be tough and likely expensive, but one won't stop the other from happening or vice versa.
Cindyloohoo So long fat girl! - After a lifetime of being overweight (and many years of being "morbidly obese"), I decided last year to get rid of this massive chip on my shoulder (and off my ass) and have gastric bypass surgery. Nine months later and I feel great.
Nancy Drew - "On Living Bravely" - I was at Moonbean Café the other day with a friend whose life is going really well. She just moved out of her parent’s house after living with them for three years while in school for naturopathic medicine. It was a grueling three years.
Heather Wood - I've read this story before - Much as I like to claim that I am only 29, I was actually born in the "Swinging Sixties"—that progressive era when it was perfectly acceptable to fire a woman just for being pregnant.
Pixie Says - Stand Up for Judy Blume -- and, while I have your attention, ask the Japanese government to ban video-game rape simulators - When I was 13, I was hauled up before the headmistress at my school because some of my friends' parents had found them reading my copy of Judy Blume's legendary novel Forever (with the *important* pages dog-eared, of course).
Romy Shiller - People seem to abhor ‘difference’ - I was so mad when Adam Lambert didn’t win American Idol (2009). It is just a TV show but it says a hell of a lot. He wears nail polish, eyeliner, some people say he is gay and he is called by the show a “glam rocker.”
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