Reese's Lament

Names are titles that seal our fate.
If she wears a dress and bakes
call her Becky, Sue or Kate.

But I beg on bended knees,
if her pants aren't neatly creased,
never, ever name her Therese.

Wearing lipstick and stilettos,
Lesley surely wouldn't oppose,
while Chris and Patricia strike a pose.

Romance authors with ink and quill
in naming characters
I urge you still.

A tux is needed for Therese to wear
so in the pocket a kerchief is near
to wipe away your hurting tears.

Make her strong, rugged and tough
and just cocky enough
to strut her stuff.

No lace or frills
can grace her build
and in her arms you'll have a thrill.

Romance authors if you please,
understand this heartfelt plea
no femme should wear the tag of Reese.

—Lois Glen

In readable size at the bottom of This Butch's Bio

Welcome

Welcome to Big Bad Butch 1.0! I call it 1.0 because I'm hoping to do a full redesign—one that'll look a whole lot better AND include a lot more fun stuff and added content—as soon as I learn Dreamweaver. Well, really learn it, as opposed to kinda know it, which is where I'm at now. Meanwhile, I'm going to try to make this first baby-step of a site interesting enough so that my readers will take it as a teaser for what's to come, and so that those of you who don't read my books, stories and other things might decide to start. Oh, and please forgive me for broken stuff here. Feel free to drop me a message about it, but please be gentle.

Flying and floating name in a logo!

 

Where I've Hidden the Bodies

Well, okay, there aren't any bodies hidden on this site. Or I don't think there are, but some days, there's just no telling where I've hidden what. Give me enough Miller Lite and I might just put a panda in the freezer. (Mei-Mei, the panda in my lap at the top of this page, in the animated Big Bad Butch gif, has still never forgiven me for that.)

Oh, and yes, I took Mei-Mei with me to Baltimore for a reading. Someone took a picture of me and Mei-Mei and Stacia made the above .gif for me. Either for me or to make fun of me. I gave up trying to figure it out and took ownership of it instead. Literally. It's on my computer.

Meanwhile, partly because of my entirely unspellable name, I couldn't determine an URL and thus couldn't put up a Web site.

Well, Evecho, down in Australia, didn't think that was a good enough reason, and she gave me a lot of options, including BigBadButch.com. She even went to far as to ensure it wasn't taken.

 

Meanwhile . . .

I hope to keep putting up new content on this site at least once a month, since I don't think I'll be up to doing a huge redesign for a while after putting this site up. But I do plan on adding new material regularly, and I do think I can do that—between old columns, play scripts and whatever else I find in my closet.

Now I'm going to go feed the panda more ice cream. One day she will forgive me for putting her in the freezer that one night. BTW, if you ever meet her at a reading or other event, please do not call her a raccoon or else she will chew your fingers off. Don't ask what you get chewed off if you even mention those disgusting, giant black-and-white abominations to her.

Mei-Ling is much nicer and sweeter than Mei-Mei, but I wouldn't try calling her a raccoon or one of those other things either.

My autograph

 

P.S. This is also the introduction of my new and improved logo! An animation of it is above (I'm also teaching myself Flash), but here's a regular use of it:

My logo.