eReaders: 12% of us have one
Good news from Pew Research Center‘s survey (run from April 26 to May 22 among 2,277 adults, margin of error = +/-…
Read moreMonth: June 2011
Port like cello music
One of the gifts we got for our anniversary was a bottle of 40 year-old port: We haven’t cracked it yet, but…
Read moreMore on Pixar’s ‘Brave’
Well, it sounds as though someone is fucking something up somewhere with Pixar’s first girl-lead movie, Brave. According to Wikipedia, Brenda Chapman…
Read moreTrailer: Brave, from Pixar
Oh, I want to see this right now. Now. Mist, menhirs, sword and ponies, monsters in the forest, a wee girl with…
Read moreIntroducing the new perbs
Last year, I grew a bunch of herbs in pots on the back deck. I called them the perbs (as opposed to…
Read moreClarion romance, 23 years on
Kelley and me, 1989 Today is the 23rd anniversary of the day I met Kelley. I told the story in my multi-media…
Read moreCowboys and aliens trailer
Now we can get married in New York
1993 Last night, in a dramatic floor vote that ended at 10:30 pm, the New York Senate voted 33/29 for same-sex marriage….
Read moreMoney matters
Over at Sterling Editing we have our usual roundup of links of interest to emerging writers. I was struck by the Behler…
Read moreHerbs, kerbs, perbs, and honeysuckle
It’s a grey day here, a mizzle of drizzle. But the garden is lush. Next time the sun comes out, I’ll take…
Read moreHild rises from the swamp
Hild is progressing nicely. The first draft started at 976 pages. About 40% of the way through the rewrite I’d lost 54…
Read moreGo vote for best f/sf novels eva at NPR
In case you haven’t heard, NPR is soliciting votes for the 100 best F/SF novels of all time. This would be a…
Read moreDonald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes
Now this is what I’d like to do with my estate–if, y’know, I had one. From the New York Times, the announcement…
Read moreThe Clarion West Write-a-Thon begins
Kelley has started her forty-one days of writing for the Clarion West Write-a-Thon. Her first piece is up, prompted by the phrase,…
Read moreQueer rights at the U.N. – The needle moves
Yesterday the U.N. Human Rights Council voted in favor of a declaration, put forward by South Africa, that expressed “grave concern at…
Read moreSnippet of naked writing
Here’s a downpayment on the naked writing that will begin on Sunday in support of Kelley’s Clarion West Write-a-Thon. The moon is…
Read moreX-Wing! Lego!
Guess what I’ll be doing for the next few days? It’s a present from a friend who understands the mind-melting frustration of…
Read moreGlottering: a new word
Yesterday I invented a new word, glottering–except, it turns out, it was invented long ago. Tuh. ‘The stork glottereth, this is a…
Read moreScience fiction by women for 4th graders?
A few days ago, a teacher (or librarian?) told me she’d like to be able to recommend some science fiction for her…
Read moreHild update
I’m now just past halfway through my first-pass rewrite of Hild. I’ve already lost more than fifty pages. If you recall the…
Read moreBeing ill, Sesame Street style
You’ve probably figured out by now that I’m ill with something other than MS. I have a variety of doctors (internist, rheumatologist,…
Read moreAwful sartorial choices of 1997
Holly Wade Matter recently posted these photos of me and Kelley, from 1997, on Facebook. Aargh!! All I can say is: our…
Read moreSmack-you-in-the-heart simplicity of joy
Kelley has an essay up at @U2 about her recent experience at a show here in Seattle. She’s been inundated with email…
Read moreFeminist SF conversations worth reading
Three interesting posts this weeks about feminist sf. I count all three women as my friends. I’m going to link and cut-and-paste…
Read moreThe Blue Sword, Robin McKinley
Large chunks of the last couple of days have been the kind of days when I’d rather be somewhere else (health stuff;…
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