When my daughter was in Junior High she had to create an art project.  I think the theme was Women In History.  This pulled her an "A" -- Barbie as Joan of Arc.  (Although to be completely honest, I think this might be Barbie's younger sister, Skipper.)

I think Barbie-As-Joan-Of-Arc is an appropriate lead-in to my interview on Feminism & Sexism & all of those things that sound staid & serious & are, I guess, except in Real Life when they're not just words but experiences -- kids & work & sex & coffee. 

I'm trying to LEAD readers to the Mary Wollstonecraft blog, not only because it's an excellent blog (I hate the word blog, but will go with it here) with lots of great interviews & photos, but ALSO because I have TWO POSTS on it.  It would've been one post but I still haven't mastered the "short succint answer" which is why they are called:

 http://open.salon.com/blog/marywollstonecraft/2009/07/02/rambling_interview_with_suzie_part_i

AND

 http://open.salon.com/blog/marywollstonecraft/2009/07/02/rambling_interview_with_suzie_part_ii

OhmyGod -- I think I may have just embedded! or whatever it's called.  Well...we'll see if it turns out in the actual post.  I gave it my best shot.  Everyone has been so nice trying to teach me all this technical crap.  Monte even told me how to send Personal Messages.  If nobody reads this I may have to actually attempt that next, because it's the holidays & lots of people are gone.

But maybe also lots of people are bored, & tired of barbecue & fireworks & instead want to read these "fascinating" interviews.  (I feel like "fascinating" should be followed with really tiny words, like reviews of that "Transformer" movie they show commercials for where the reviews are awesome but you can't actually read who wrote the reviews, as usually it's some teenage-boy-online-game magazine instead of Roger Ebert or whoever it was that took Pauline Kael's place at The New Yorker after she died.  Pauline would've liked the Transformers movie but only if it starred Warren Beatty.  I miss her every day.)

Anyway, I have to go to bed, and the adorable grandkids are going to be here for a few days so I will be busy baking & playing & bowling & watching Fairy Tale Theater (and also probably drinking...) 

PLEASE check out the interviews -- not just mine, although really, that's fine, too.  Please don't make me light up Barbie & especially don't make me try to send out personal messages to all my favorites, as there are five pages worth & I would probably only be able to figure it out if Monte was here in person leading me through it.  Plus also he & Dave S. would have to be praying for me.  That MIGHT work. 

 But just in case -- here is what I'm going to do -- and really, this is so brilliant that I can't believe I'm thinking of it.  I am going to go into the Mary Wollstonecraft blog & I am going to comment on THIS blog & that will put the Mary Wollstonecraft icon under my comments & that way all you have to do to get to that blog is click on the avatar on the comment!  I cannot make this any easier for you!

Okay -- good luck.  Barbie (or Skipper) is counting on you!