Author name: Nico Mara-McKay

Nico Mara-McKay is a PhD Student in History with a collaborative specialization in Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. Nico tweets as @plutopsyche.

Awesome shortbread cookie recipe

After seeing a friend’s recipe on her blog, Edible Noir, I decided to have a go at it myself, with a few slight changes. I love making shortbread, and I recently purchased new forest themed cookie cutters, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity to try them out. Alas, the ninjabread cookie cutters still seem to be […]

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Working from home with a kitten

Pictured left is my kitten, Lydia, patiently waiting for me to throw her mousie for the kazillionth time. And by patiently, I mean she will wait a few seconds before resulting to the tactics outlined by The Oatmeal in Cat vs Internet. He gets it. Perfectly. Cats will try anything – anything – to get your attention. 

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Review notes for Sexual Outlaw, Erotic Mystic

My workspace: this is it. With the sun behind me, my desk looked so pretty. (And cluttered, but then, it’s always cluttered.) So, I snapped a quick picture with my shiny new BlackBerry Torch. (I love it.) The book is Sexual Outlaw, Erotic Mystic: The Essential Ida Craddock, by Vere Chappell (Weiser, 2010). These are my notes

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Words, a video poem

WORDS from Everynone on Vimeo. Directed by Daniel Mercadante and Will Hoffman with a score by Keith Kenniff, Words is called a video poem, collage, and also seems to be an exercise in word association. It’s a neat idea, and very well executed. Spotted on BoingBoing.

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Ninjabread cookie cutters

I saw this on ThinkGeek, and how could I not want them? They’re officially called Ninjabread Men Cookie Cutters, though there’s nothing particularly manly about them. I think they could easily serve as gender neutral breads if one so desired. ((And I so desire.)) Rational: I bake excellent cookies, so this would be far more useful than

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