Nicola Griffith

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

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Month: January 2012

Crucial vote tomorrow

Last night, the Washington state House Judiciary Committee passed by a vote of 7-6 the bill to extend the freedom to marry…

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Posted on January 31, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Game of Thrones Season Two trailer

Clearly the producers have taken on board the popularity of Peter Dinklage and his character, Tyrion. Also, the palette looks much darker….

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Posted on January 30, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Available for rent: the Acropolis

Parthenon (Cornell) Parthenon (Brooklyn Museum) These two photos were taken a long time ago. But this is how the Acropolis looked when…

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Posted on January 29, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

MS on Dr Kiki’s Science Hour

The huge news that MS is a metabolic disorder and not an autoimmune disease hit the web afresh this week. On Thursday,…

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Posted on January 28, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Galactic Suburbia Award

This morning I woke up to a lovely surprise: I’ve been awarded the first Galactic Suburbia Award for activism and/or communication that…

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Posted on January 27, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Resilience

A student of mine, Eric Nguyen, has edited a marvellous book, Resilience: To be queer and young is to be STRONG. To…

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Posted on January 26, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards are awarded annually for works of speculative fiction translated into English from other languages. There…

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Posted on January 25, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

All is well with the world

Yesterday was an astonishingly sunny day here in Seattle. I was serenaded by a fat bird at breakfast: And in the afternoon,…

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Posted on January 24, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Washington marridge about to become marriage?

About an hour from now, the Washington State legislature will open hearings on two identical same-sex marriage bills, HB 2516 and SB…

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Posted on January 23, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Libraries rock

Fans of Green County Public Library (Ohio) made this supercut of scenes from TV and film about libraries. Libraries rock. If you…

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Posted on January 22, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

It Was the Snow

A picture of our street taken Friday Thursday afternoon by our favourite photographer, Jennifer Durham (who took these snapshots with her phone),…

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Posted on January 21, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

I’m a woman writer: I am unspeakably privileged

If you believe Teddy Wayne, I am, as a writer, unspeakably privileged: I’m a woman. In “The Agony of the Male Novelist,”…

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Posted on January 20, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

How to take down a mammoth

Still snowing. Huge icicle hanging outside our kitchen could probably take down a mammoth. There’s an ice storm warning in effect for…

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Posted on January 19, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Marooned

It started snowing in earnest first thing Tuesday morning: It stopped yesterday, but everything stayed frozen. Today it’s a little warmer, but…

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Posted on January 19, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

How I look now

photo by Riva Lehrer, January 2012 This photo is by the artist Riva Lehrer. It’s low-res and not well-lit because it’s just…

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Posted on January 18, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

I need amusement!

Snow is coming down. It will come down all day. Tomorrow there will be a lot more. I won’t be able to…

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Posted on January 17, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Snow day

Today is a snow day. I’ll be watching this and thinking about Hild: I’m grateful for modern conveniences: light, heat, the ability…

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Posted on January 16, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Some blog stats

It’s been a while since I gave you a peek behind the curtain. So here are some relatively arbitrary statistics about this…

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Posted on January 15, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Boundless blue beauty

Here’s a photo taken earlier this week–Wednesday afternoon–looking out over Puget Sound. The long low bit is Bainbridge Island. Behind it, the…

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Posted on January 14, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Freedom from money worries leads to great writing

I’ve always believed that writers do their best work when they are unhooked from the financial hamster wheel. Finally, I’ve found someone…

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Posted on January 13, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Arthur, Hild, and the challenge of the historical novel sequence

Wikimedia Commons Yesterday I started rereading Gillian Bradshaw’s Arthurian trilogy. I’ve always loved Hawk of May. And I like Kingdom of Summer…

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Posted on January 12, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Food glorious food

This is the kind of thing I’m eating for dinner on my new food regimen*: steak (grass-fed, and cooked on a Foreman…

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Posted on January 11, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Reading distinguishes us from other animals

At the end of December the Guardian ran a story about reading and empathy: Psychologists from Washington University used brain scans to…

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Posted on January 10, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

No available brain

It’s been a busy day. All bandwidth taken. I forgot to blog. Ooops. Oh, well. As someone not a million miles from…

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Posted on January 10, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Watch art being born

Just what we all need for a relaxed Sunday: soothing video of Donato Giancola, a popular f/sf artist, creating an oil painting…

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Posted on January 8, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized
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