Nicola Griffith

Writer. Queer cripple with a PhD. Seattle & Leeds.

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Month: November 2008

misty morning

It’s a misty morning here in Seattle. I woke up late, with that limp, relaxed don’t-have-to-do-a-goddamned-thing-today feeling. I spent a leisurely hour…

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Posted on November 30, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

pigfuck in six parts

A leading Russian political analyst has said the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the country…

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Posted on November 29, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Friday audio: You Lied

Okay, after a day of rest and turkey I got all contemplative, so this is going to be a long one. Today’s…

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Posted on November 28, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

community

Here in Seattle it’s a day of scudding cloud and lemon sun, and the outside world is very quiet: few cars, few…

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Posted on November 27, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

giant protist!

Wow, an amoeba, a single-celled organism, the size of a grape. Pretty mind-boggling. Read the New Scientist article here, or view the…

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Posted on November 26, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

MIT Media Lab’s ‘Center for Future Storytelling’ (tuh)

I am so very tired of now! now! now! initiatives. So is the literary editor of the Daily Telegraph: Storytelling is under…

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Posted on November 25, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

whoa–scary publishing news

According to Publishers Weekly Houghton Mifflin has just stopped acquiring new books. This is a grim day. I also think it’s incredibly…

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Posted on November 24, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

girls with Asperger’s

Here’s something I missed last week in Newsweek: Because they may have different symptoms than boys do, some girls with Asperger’s syndrome…

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Posted on November 24, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

don’t snort the rainforest

Cocaine use is so not green: Not that this comes as any surprise to those who read our Guide to Green Drug…

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Posted on November 23, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Carkeek Park

Yesterday was a grey and rainy day here in Seattle. Kelley and I were feeling a bit cooped up so we went…

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Posted on November 22, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

audio Friday: Always #2

This is a longish reading (nearly 15 minutes) from Always. Aud, as many of you know, lives in–loves living in–her body. Physically,…

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Posted on November 21, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

bouncy house for the apocalypse

Wired discusses a bouncy house for the apocalypse: SAN FRANCISCO — In tough circumstances, sometimes all you need is hope, but other…

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Posted on November 21, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

California Supreme Court to hear challenge to Prop 8

Nancy Polikoff reports in The Bilerico Project that the California Supreme Court has agreed to hear the challenge to Proposition 8 filed…

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Posted on November 20, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

apply now to the Clarion West Writers Workshop

I met Kelley at Clarion in 1988 (I’ve talked about this many, many times, such as here and here). Those six weeks…

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Posted on November 20, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

stand on a question of love

photo by Jennifer Durham I’ve seen many pictures of the protests sparked by the passage of Proposition 8 (and other anti-same-sex-marriage ballot…

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Posted on November 19, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

audio wars: analogue vs. digital

The audiophile holy war, analogue vs. digital, has been raging for a couple of decades now. This Economist article (damn I love…

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Posted on November 18, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

strong, silent, beer-providing

Kelley and I own a new business, Humans at Work, LLC. I say ‘we’ because we are legal partners in the enterprise,…

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Posted on November 17, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

A View of One’s Own 02

ravine, November 16th It looks as though we’re really cranking with the gallery; lots o’ new stuff. Go look: http://an.aviewsofonesown.com Go add…

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Posted on November 16, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

we have earned the new puppy that is coming with us to the White House!

(Via Gwenda.) Yesterday was kitten day so today it’s puppies. Tomorrow it’s humans, at work :) After that we’ll be back to…

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Posted on November 16, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

authors’ mews

photo: Murdo Macleod Today is turning out to be cat day. Here’s a Guardian article about authors and their cats: “The author…

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Posted on November 15, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

a kitten called Lore

I had a note from Jo, a reader of my MySpace blog (which is usually mirrored from here): I finished Slow River…

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Posted on November 15, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

latin-american sf

There’s an interesting discussion going on over at the Tor blog about the difficulties in publishing English translations of foreign SF. (Via…

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Posted on November 15, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

audio Friday: Pinky’s Paperhaus

Last year, Carolyn Kellogg interviewed me and Gwenda Bond for Pinky’s Paperhaus and the LitBlog Co-op’s summer Read This programme. I talk…

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Posted on November 14, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

A View of One’s Own

Thanks to Jennifer, we now have our very own photo gallery space. So if you like to take pictures of your environment,…

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Posted on November 14, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

vitamin D handy for apocalypse

Cholecalciferol by Calvero, from Wikipedia I could have sworn I saw this news about vitamin D somewhere months ago… Radiological health expert…

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Posted on November 12, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized
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