{"id":3561,"date":"2007-08-08T14:29:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T21:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/08\/an-introduction-2\/"},"modified":"2007-08-08T14:29:01","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T21:48:49","slug":"an-introduction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3561","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, all, I&#8217;m Myca!<\/p>\n<p>Hi there.<\/p>\n<p>With Ampersand stepping down from his lofty blogging throne, he&#8217;s asked me to make the leap from moderator to co-blogger, so although most of you have more or less known me for some years now, I thought an introductory post would be a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>SO: I&#8217;m a long-haired, <strike>polyamorous<\/strike>, feminist, agnostic, Mac-using, role-playing, Gaiman-reading, left-wing, philosophy-studying, theater-attending, computer-gaming, kinky, sexually dominant, art-film loving, ren-faire participating, quirky, outdoorsy geek dreamer. And I&#8217;m a white guy.<\/p>\n<p>I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, so that type isn&#8217;t as uncommon as you&#8217;d think.<\/p>\n<p>My primary interests are feminism, leftist politics in general, geek culture, civility of debate, and sexual freedom issues, so that&#8217;s mostly what I&#8217;ll be posting on, but I&#8217;m of course always interested in learning more about things I know little about, so you may see the occasional &#8220;Huh, this is confusing to me,&#8221; post too.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: Oh, hey, the blogs I regularly read:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feministe.us\/blog\/\">Feministe<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandagon.net\/\">Pandagon<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/idrewthis.org\/birdbrains.html\">Bird Brains (The IDT Weblog).<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cassandrasays.blogspot.com\/\">Cassandra Says<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feet2thefire.blogspot.com\/\">I shame the matriarchy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sm-feminist.blogspot.com\/\">let them eat pro-sm feminist safe spaces<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/\">The Washington Monthly<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/philosoraptor.blogspot.com\/\">Philosoraptor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EDIT the second: I&#8217;m crossing out polyamorous, since I&#8217;m in a monogamous relationship sort of. *grin* Long story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, all, I&#8217;m Myca! Hi there. With Ampersand stepping down from his lofty blogging throne, he&#8217;s asked me to make the leap from moderator to co-blogger, so although most of you have more or less known me for some years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3561\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}