Battlestar Rhapsody
Temporarily breaking radio silence because this is such pointless fun. (Via Huffington Post via @daj42.)
Read moreMonth: December 2009
time out of time, full of delights
Some of you have seen this before but, eh, it’s my favourite holiday card ever so please accept it as my Chrismukkah…
Read morea Hild update
Perhaps this will surprise no one but I like the novel I’m writing. I’ve spent a 100,000 words taking Hild through childhood…
Read morethe best in the world
Kelley has agreed to lead the board of Clarion West for a year, beginning March 2010. As she says, “Clarion West is…
Read moreBrittany Murphy
Celebrity deaths don’t normally touch me–I don’t know these people, on some level I don’t care. But for some reason, Brittany Murphy’s…
Read morethe little novelette that could
“It Takes Two,” originally published in Jonathan Strahan’s Eclipse 3 a couple of months ago, has been chosen for inclusion in Gardner…
Read moremist
On Thursday we went to the park. It was quiet and still, and mild for this time of year (not too far…
Read moreoooh
I am a sucker, an absolute sucker, for this kind of film. Swords, ponies, and battles, fair maids, trees, and rivers: what’s…
Read moregorgeous pix to help queer writers
Jennifer Durham has made a splendid offer to help the Lambda Literary Foundation raise money: Any calendar which is purchased from this…
Read morela la la
Nothing from me today. Many things to do. Feel free to talk among yourselves. Or, better, why not sing? I have the…
Read moregosh
Looks like rain: Hey, it’s Seattle, it’s December. This is how it is. But if anyone keeps sunshine in a box, or…
Read moregive to LLF
Do you like good books by queer writers? Of course you do, you’re reading this blog. Alrighty then: the Lambda Literary Foundation…
Read moreiTales: storylists to impress your sweetie
From the Guardian, The iTunes-ization of short fiction is here: The decision by the Atlantic magazine to begin selling some short stories,…
Read moreHouston, we have lift-off
From the New York Times: HOUSTON — Houston became the largest city in the United States to elect an openly gay mayor…
Read moreI arrive in the US–a cartoon
Friend of Ask Nicola Angélique Corthals drew this cartoon of me arriving for the first time in this country (in 1988) to…
Read morefood glorious food
Yesterday was my 20th anniversary of moving to this country: 20 years of living every day under the same roof as Kelley….
Read morequeer literary community: our time is coming
Elliott Bay, one of Seattle’s storied independent book shops, is moving from Pioneer Square to Capitol Hill. It’s good news for me….
Read moreoops
Just sorta spaced on a blog today–too busy doing Other Things. I do have something to post tomorrow… …and tomorrow is another…
Read moreand buy this for yourself
Cheap, oh most definitely cheap at the price: a gorgeous calendar from FoAN Jennifer Durham. Twelve brilliant photos to look at all…
Read morebuy this for me
So busy my head might explode. But Real Blog Posts, possibly even about, gasp, books and writing, coming soon. For today, this:…
Read morelesbian bodice-ripping
From the Daily Mail (thanks, Colleen), news of a TV drama about a woman nicknamed Gentleman Jack, taken from an intimate diary…
Read moreI expect this will mean another fight
From The Times, news of the election of the Anglican Communion’s first lesbian bishop: The Archbishop of Canterbury warned today that the…
Read moreFriday linkage
From PhysOrg, a possible answer to the question, Why do females live longer than males? “Researchers in Japan have found that female…
Read moreeverything but married
Today is the day Washington’s domestic partnership measure kicks in: here, we are everything-but-married. It means a lot, yet it means not…
Read morefrost and sun
I woke up this morning to light shining on the wall. “What the fuck is that?” I scrambled out of bed, blinking,…
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