Ladies, and now also gentlemen! I present to you a development in interactive technology three years in the making: The sexual integration of the Girlbomb blogroll.
Drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrumroll, please!
(Ahem!)
Friends of mixed gender, once, a callow young(ish) sexist named Girlbomb presided over the blogroll, but as the first act of the new Janice Erlbaum regime, I hereby end the sexual apartheid and decree that men are no longer second-class citizens! No longer will Bill Scurry toil alone in his ghetto as the "token male" of this site; men will finally be recognized for being the awesome people they are! Specifically, my male friends:
M. David Hornbuckle
Jeff Mac
Beehive Hairdresser
M. David Hornbuckle is the author of the new book The Salvation of Billy Wayne Carter, available as an e-book from Cantarabooks. In David's words: "Billy Wayne Carter is a rock star who becomes the public face of the rebel movement in a second US Civil War, a war based on art. There's lots of Southern gothicism and sex and paranoid po-mo rantings. Fun for the whole family...except the kids...and the old people." Oh my god, wait...is that ageism? Because that has no place on this website!!! Anyway, this old person liked the book -- check out the excerpt on the site.
Jeff Mac is the Man behind Manslations.com, a site where women are invited to talk about their relationships with a nice, sane guy who has their best interests at heart. Is that the craziest shit you ever heard of? He totally comes up with great advice, too, and dispenses it in the gentlest fashion. His Manslations book is coming out this fall from Sourcebooks, and he is currently available online right now for free.
And the Beehive Hairdresser, my favorite young man about town, is blogging damn near everyday about his life as a dude. I expect a book from him sometime, if he decides to write one.
Welcome, men!
Just...don't get anybody pregnant.
wow. Thanks for the unexpected plug! And if you're old, I'm old, so you are not old. I was thinking specifically of my grandmother when I wrote that promo blurb. She hasn't read the book and probably shouldn't.
Posted by: M. David Hornbuckle | Feb 21, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Also, I appreciate you calling my book "new." I haven't really thought of it as "new" since about a week after it came out (last October). Man, I have a short attention span.
The upshot is that it really is new still, and that's good for me to remember because in my mind, I've already sold as many copies as I ever will.
Posted by: M. David Hornbuckle | Feb 21, 2008 at 12:09 PM
Thanks so much for the plug, Janice! (And if it makes your transition into multigenderal blog acceptance any easier, really, I'm just not that manly.)
And as far as "not getting anyone pregnant" goes, seriously, from your lips to god's baby deciding department. Our apartment is only slightly larger than a womb as it is.
Posted by: Jeff Mac | Feb 21, 2008 at 12:29 PM
I was kinda hoping we could break down the gender apartheid in the "eggrolls".
Posted by: Bill Scurry | Feb 21, 2008 at 02:22 PM
Thank you quite very much, Janice. I'm honored to be part of the gender barrier breaking.
Sadly, your site is blocked at my job, and I had to await until now to thank you. Thank you.
Posted by: Eric the BeehiveHairdresser | Feb 22, 2008 at 07:50 AM