In case you’ve ever wondered where the blog name comes from, here’s a video from one of my favorite artists. I bet you’ll never guess what the song is called.
Don’t read too much into the lyrics, though. There’s a lot more to this not being a place of diamonds, including the fact that I just don’t like diamonds. Who wants to be that hard, that pure, that transparent, that flawless? Give me a beautiful colored stone any day, and if it’s just a little more fragile, then so be it.
In fact, I prefer it that way. Where do you go from perfection?
Stephanie Zvan is one of the hosts for the Minnesota Atheists' radio show and podcast, Atheists Talk. She serves on the board of Secular Woman. She speaks on science and skepticism in a number of venues, including science fiction and fantasy conventions.
Stephanie has been called a science blogger and a sex blogger, but if it means she has to choose just one thing to be or blog about, she's decided she's never going to grow up. In addition to science and sex and the science of sex, you'll find quite a bit of politics here, some economics, a regular short fiction feature, and the occasional bit of concentrated weird.
Oh, and arguments. She sometimes indulges in those as well. But I'm sure everything will be just fine. Nothing to worry about. Nothing at all.
