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At a recent BSFA interview I asked Jaine Fenn if she had heard about Charles Stross applying Bechdel test to his books, as her first novel was one of the few I had read recently that did have women talking to each other about something besides a man. She said at the time that she hadn't heard of that test, but hadn't written a strong female lead by accident. She's just realised that her next two novels don't pass.

I need to update my reading list for the year. It's tempting to apply the test to all the books as I do so.

Current Mood: contemplative

I was standing on the tube recently and half noticed a pregnant lady standing by one of the seats. When the train pulled up at the next stop the guy who had the seat got up to leave, and as she went to sit down she hooked her foot round his and almost sent him flying. I gave her a big thumbs up.

If I shave of the sideburns I've had for this summer, am I going to have white stripes on my face?

Hang on. It's Friday. That's casual dress day. Why am I'm in a suit? Damn.

What's the point of BBCode? It's no less complicated than HTML, and just confuses things.