Things. . .

[kelly_chambliss]

Fun thing -- Check out Princeton University's annual "joke" issue of their student newspaper. (click on the image to enlarge). Here's an on-line version.

Sad thing -- Barbara Grier, founded of Naiad Press, one of the first and most successful US publishing houses devoted to fiction and non-fiction by and about lesbians, died back in November; here's her New York Times obituary. Her impact on lesbian rights and awareness is immeasurable. True, a lot of Naiad books (the romances in particular) were pretty cheesy and became something of an emblem of the clichéd and badly-written, but all the same, for many lesbians of an entire generation, they were tremendously encouraging and affirming.

Grier was a lesbian activist in the earliest days of the "gay rights" movement; I think the term "icon" is often over-used today, but she genuinely qualifies. Here's some further info from Lambda Literary.

Cool Thing -- Sign-ups for hp_beholder start tomorrow! (Also, sign-ups for femmefest and springtime_gen are going on now. And then there's voyager_fest. I'll always have a soft spot for Voyager, which was my gateway into fanfic. I wish I had time to sign up; I'd kinda like to revisit my old Janeway passion.)