Name: Shannon Okey
Dateline: Cleveland, Ohio
Weblog: www.bitter-girl.com [RSS]
Articles: 42
First Published: Wednesday, September 4, 2002
Last Published: Monday, August 14, 2006
Currently listing articles 42-1:
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Concert Review: Sold Out In Ten Minutes Without Selling Out - Tom Waits in Akron— And Tom Waits teased the audience for taking so long to sell out the show.
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Book Review: Big Girl Knits by Jillian Moreno and Amy R. Singer— Tired of knitting tents? Big Girl Knits isn't just for big girls.
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Concert Review: Playing the Angel — Depeche Mode live— Depeche Mode comes back from the brink with their Playing the Angel tour
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Concert Review: Bauhaus Live(s)— David Bowie once said that Bauhaus plays "Ziggy Stardust" the way he should have. To that, I have to say that Bauhaus plays entire shows
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Cindy Sheehan is no longer the point— Cindy Sheehan hasn't achieved her original goal, but a far greater one.
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Wal-Mart v. Cleveland: the rematch— Underhanded pro-Wal-Mart developers bypassed Cleveland's City Council — and mayor Queen Jane helped them pull it off behind closed doors.
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Sew Very Evil— Watch the (fun) fur (yarn) fly as an obscure online message board goes after multimillion-selling author Debbie Stoller!
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Crumbkafka— Crumbkafka! It's not just for breakfast anymore.
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Are human brains halal?— A Kentucky high school junior is sitting in prison for writing a story about zombies overrunning a high school.
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Persecution Complex— You mind your business, I'll mind mine
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Changing the Tone— How "tone" gets blamed in online communications. Is face-to-face communication the only valid means for expression of distaste?
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Big Brother: Nosy Parker— The American Community Survey is the latest obnoxious attempt at Total Information Awareness by Big Brother...ahem, I mean "our government."
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Virginia bozo watch continues— Republicans: when you care enough to waste the very most [amount of taxpayer money]
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Virginia, vagina...one lost a war, the other's about to...— John Cosgrove introduced legislation requiring women to report miscarriages within 12 hours. Coming soon: tampons wrapped in crime-scene tape?
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Pixies Boston reunion show— Last Thursday, I shot the Pixies.
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PayPal Hacks— ...
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Choo Choo La Rouge: chugging towards pop perfection— Boston has always been an indie rock catalyst. Lots of colleges + good small clubs = neverending great lineup
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The Quality of Life Report— At last! Summery reading that isn't "chick lit"!
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Semicolons block evil in SF!— Grab a copy of your nearest grammar guide if attacked, as it's been proven that semicolons can block evil! Even the anti-gay, conservative kind...
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Get Henry Rollins on the line...— Only Henry Rollins could do a thorough job of mocking this book, though the Amazon reviewers are hitting it with their best shots. (My apologies
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Enhanced Google search functions— Power-Googlers and novices alike will love this functionality...
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Christmas is expensive but I'm loving it— ...
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Gay marriage ruled constitutional in Massachusetts— The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today became the nation's first state supreme court to rule that same-sex couples have the legal right to marry.
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Social networks and Urban Tribes— If a link forms in the woods and no one's there to see it, does it still exist? What's the difference between having a person
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"Chick lit" and Urban Tribes
— When I read Urban Tribes, the sections that interested me the most concerned how women were employing and benefiting from the concept. Then, considering some
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Virtual Book Tour stops at Blogcritics
— The Virtual Book Tour takes authors on a whirlwind weeklong trip across time and space to promote their books. VBT III is now in
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Lenore: Everyone's Favorite Little Dead Girl— Continuing the Halloween theme, comics-style!
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Canine Halloween— Is your dog a pimp? Or does he or she just want to dress like one?
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Declaration of Independents: indie music on iTunes— ...
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Kill Bill: no spoilers, just adulation— What I'd like to tell the big-media film critics can't be displayed here. It's a family blog.
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California Über Alles— From "yuppie fascists" to an Austrian running the world's fifth-largest economy in less than 2 years. Not bad. Österreich über alles! Tomorrow we take Poland.
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Bloggercon 2003— Whither Bloggercon? An event overview. Will next year feature more creative types?
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Hookers, midget pimps and a lot of drinking— ...
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA— ...
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
— Franklin's x-ray photos of DNA were called "among the most beautiful...of any substance ever taken," but why was her vital role in the discovery of
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Seeking aural stimulation...— Do you have an incredible music collection? Despite your incredible music collection, are you tired of listening to the same old things? Yeah, me, too.
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Here she goes, here she goes again— Radical Sanity: Commonsense Advice for Uncommon Women, by Elizabeth Wurtzel. You want to take advice from this girl?
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No Handbasket Required...— Cue standard diet commercialese: blah blah blah blah blah...I was fat. Real fat. Boy, was I fat. But then September eleventh happened.
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Is it too early to have riot grrl nostalgia?
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Our real enemies aren't external— We've all got an opinion on how we should honor the dead, the survivors and those affected by the events of last September eleventh. Mine
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(South) American Idol— Nightingales may sing in Berkeley Square, but Marta Gómez sings in Harvard Square And she's much better than any bird.
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Soltero saves pop music— I am an admittedly biased critic when it comes to Soltero. My housemates nearly had to wrest the CD from me and hold an
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