I got lucky, like incredibly lucky, in the father and husband department. Aside from my children, one of the most defining relationship I have is with my father. This is not a slight against my mother, whose love and light personified (I kid you not, my mother is an absolute angel) but there’s a dynamic…
Cockamine “Cocky” Lawsuit Gets Cockblocked
I’m not a lawyer in real life. I do play one online so this means I know everything, and I’m always right. I’m going to attempt to make sense of all of this cockamamie issues of trademark and half-cocked lawsuit. If you’re an author and you haven’t heard of #cockygate then you need to examine…
The Americans Are No Longer Americans
After six seasons, The Americans, one of the most underrated shows on television, closed out the series. I only starting following this show a few years ago, getting hooked at the frenetic, albeit sloppy first episode while the song Tusk played in the background. At first glance, the show is about espionage, but there are…
A Dick Move: Trademark on “Cocky”
I have been fascinated, amused, worried, and angry over the continuing #cockygate saga. It basically boils down to this: author Faleena Hopkins successfully trademarked the word “cocky”. She has written a series of books (seventeen as of today) that involves a fictional family called the Cocker Brothers. First, let me get this out of the…
Mother’s Day 2018 Edition
I’ve been a mother for a good fourteen years now. So I’m currently in the midst of parenting a teen–someone send wine. But it isn’t as bad as I expected. I suspect I was far more work than my oldest (my poor mother). Aside from the push back, a natural consequence of someone trying to…
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