This week
I’ve been busy dealing with all kinds of fiddly things this week, including a zillion medical appointments, but, hey, we’re off to…
Read moreMonth: April 2011
Brandi Carlile made me cry
Last night I went to a private event for the Women’s Funding Alliance. We were feasted by Seattle celebrity chefs (including Becky…
Read moreGame of Thrones, Episode 2
It was rather odd watching Doctor Who (my very brief impressions here) and Game of Thrones back to back. They’re so different…
Read moreDr Who
I watched the Season 6 (or 32) premiere of Dr Who last night. My first Dr Who in years. Wow, the pace…
Read moreJust arrived
These books arrived this weekend. I’m looking forward to all of them. I love my job! Less fond of crapcam, though. Just…
Read moreHappy Easter
At left is what the place looked like yesterday, all sunshine and birdsong and flowers (I think they’re some kind of hellebore)….
Read moreSpring
I had planned a gorgeous series of photos to show you how the garden has suddenly leapt into bloom. And that the…
Read moreAnglo-Saxon gods
I warn you: this is not a terribly coherent post. My frustration level is high. Before I started writing Hild I read…
Read moreAmmonite art prints
Today I’m cross with gods. Anglo-Saxon gods. I’ve been researching them for Hild. They are slippery little bastards. That is, scholars seem…
Read moreMore Aud?
From: Cindy Thoreson I love the Aud Torvingen series! Always, the last novel in the series, was published in 2007. I’ve been…
Read moreDoggy Style: My Game of Thrones S1E1 review
It’s good. I enjoyed it. And it took me a while to work out that I’m a little disappointed: I was hoping…
Read moreWhat film, what novel do you wish you’d written?
A few days ago at Go Into the Story Scott Myers asked what screenplay viewers wished they’d written. For me that’s easy:…
Read moreMessage from a viajera
From: Kida Valérie Charavel Hello, just wanted to share something… Discovered Aud in The Blue Place, and since then, just kept following…
Read moreRise of the Planet of the Apes trailer
This looks as though it might suffer story problems. The beginning made me think, Oooh, creepy! but then the whole thing seemed…
Read moreThe Hobbit preview and start of production
I loved The Lord of the Rings, book and film. (Not perfect, but damn good.) But I’ve never been excited about the…
Read moreCamelot, a rant
I’ve been waiting to be in a calm, reasonable, orderly frame of mind before writing about Camelot, the new epic mini series…
Read more"Don’t attack the nice man"
Conversation in our house yesterday afternoon: “Hey, hon, you know that flooding issue we’ve been having…”“Uh-huh.”“Well, the city’s sending a guy out…
Read moreSave the date
If you live anywhere near Seattle, save this date: May 8th, 5 pm. I’ll be MC’ing a reading of Lambda Literary Award…
Read moreGreening leaves
Yesterday I promised you a review of Camelot. I lied. The review will be a bit of a rant, I think, and…
Read moreThe blog post of technological triumph!
We got our new AV set up running at last. The nifty new TiVo Premiere that allows for streaming from Netflix, YouTube,…
Read moreLift your face to the sun–and get beaten bloody
According to my calendar, this is what April looks like: Sun, scent of flowers, the zuzz of bumble bees, birdsong, blue skies……
Read moreGeek out to the history beat!
Music, video, wit, and scholarship combine to bring you three-minute history primers on iconic subjects (aaaand you can dance to it). Via…
Read moreSlow River reprint
For those of you who have been waiting a week or so for Slow River to ship from Amazon, I’ve been assured…
Read moreWrestling with technology
Today will be wrestle-with-televisual-technology day at the Griffith-Eskridge household. We got our first TiVo in 1999. We were the only people we…
Read moreGame of Thrones — my review
Last night I watched the preview of Game of Thrones. The showrunners, D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, made a couple of interesting…
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