Friday audio: Changesurfer
Here’s something from the archives: an old interview with Dr. J. Hughes on Changesurfer radio, “a weekly, syndicated public affairs radio show…
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Spit Out Your Mouthguard and Bow
Here’s a short essay I wrote five or six years ago that was never published. I hope you enjoy it. Spit Out…
Read moreemerald sanity
I love mist. I love the scent of earth folded in on itself and dreaming under a blanket of leaf fall. I…
Read moreHild update
Over on Gemæcca I have an update post on Hild and a question about sleeping arrangements. Take a look. Take a guess…
Read moresword of ammonites
Another in my occasional series of listing search terms people use to find this blog: things I like, thigs I like, thugs…
Read moreall aboard…
A delightful graphic rendering of our voting choices, via Pharyngula and Cheryl’s Mewsings:
Read moreeat your addiction away
From the Economist, an interesting piece on a dietary approach to treating addiction: PEOPLE are programmed for addiction. Their brains are designed…
Read moreno on hate, no on 8
(Thanks, Janice.) I know I’m probably preaching to the choir here but if you live in California, please vote no on 8….
Read moreFriday audio: Reclaim the Night
I was going to do a reading from Always this week but circumstances, i.e., an evil virus, has removed that option. So…
Read morewin $250,000 for an essay
Yesterday I came across FieldReport.com: FieldReport lets you record and share the true stories of your life, as publicly or anonymously as…
Read moreBending the Landscape
From: Karina Is there a fourth Bending the Landscape anthology simmering on the back burner? Short answer: no. Longer answer: no, never…
Read morewhat is a library?
A Guardian editorial discusses rebranding the notion of town libraries: The town library, byword for mousy respectability and decent endeavour, is at…
Read moreadapting to being Other/submarine
From: Sue Have you seen this? I read Slow River for the first time in 1996, when I worked at a feminist/progressive…
Read moreAud lives inside others
From: Anita Just wanted to tell you how much i enjoyed the Aud Trilogy… I DID get the ending of Stay and…
Read moredogs in the 7th century
I don’t know much about dogs; my sister had one when I was seven, but I’m a cat person. Nothing against dogs,…
Read morewe have a winner!
And the winner of the ANWAGTHAP competition is…Janine! (Janine, email me your address and I’ll get the memoir in the post in…
Read moreFriday audio: Slow River
This is one of my favourite readings, 6 minutes from near the beginning of Slow River, in which Lore wakes up, naked…
Read moremaking more money on YouTube
Okay. This is turning into Flake Week for me. Sorry. Coming up soon: more audio (a reading from Slow River), another roundup…
Read morethe floor is yours
Today I’m going to be totally wrapped up in Hild. So the floor is yours. I’ll be reading on and off but…
Read moreVirgin birth (yes, really)
An AP report about a blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus, giving birth to a shark pup by parthenogenesis (or, as the Wall Street…
Read morethings that are worrying me
Things that are currently worrying me, just off the top of my head: The dumbing down of discourse. Oh, I could write…
Read moremore library porn
Again, via Jennifer, more library porn. Oh, this stuff is luscious. Someone in the comments says: if I could have carnal relations…
Read moreFriday audio: Ammonite
Today’s audio is 6:49 of Ammonite: the scene where Marghe is in Ollfoss striking the gong, trying to make some decisions. If…
Read morefalling in love over a book — competition
GalleyCat has been running a competition to find the best story of breaking up over a book. I thought we might turn…
Read moreread a book, lose weight
Here‘s news of a study that indicates reading books can help children lose weight: In a study of 45 girls, those who…
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