My culturekitchen blog

When I first founded the site, I wanted it to be a placeholder for the articles, reviews and esays I had written for traditional media up until that moment. When I was hit with the prospect of having to retype all my academic papers and literary reviews after losin them to unrecoverable floppy disks, I decided I needed something more organic. I wanted not just place online and a space for my "stuff". I wanted a tool that would act like an extension f(an my brain and my hands. 

Can't tell you how happy I was when I found out I could publish on a whim and not with the painful hand-coding of HTML or the cumbersom "cheating" with Dreamweaver. When I discovered I could publish whenever and where ever, I just didn't look back.

Writing for the web is ot like writing for academic journals or newspapers. I had to re-learn how to write for this medium and so my beginnings were rather tentative with a lot of linking to other sources with the ocassional musing about motherhood or politics.

Then the dirty war in Iraq happened.

culturekitchen is now mostly a place where I write about history, culture, race, gender and the ocassional OMGWTF about the world of movies and entertainment.