Busy
For the next week or ten days you won’t see much of me around here. Perhaps the occasional photo. It also means…
Read moreMonth: June 2012
Me interviewing Kelley for a Tweet Chat this morning
Do you write? Are you on Twitter? Then you might want to join me and Kelley Eskridge today for the first ever…
Read moreSome women can see a hundred million colours
We saw this cloud right around noon on Wednesday. Those amazing colours lasted only a few minutes. It was basically a cloud-shaped…
Read moreAn evening with George R.R. Martin: you and just 99 others
Love Game of Thrones? Can’t get enough of Wildcards? Think Clarion West is the best thing since sliced bread? I have just…
Read moreQueering the landscape
Over at Tor.com, Brit Mandelo ponders the place of Bending the Landscape in the queer speculative fiction firmament: In the late nineties,…
Read moreHild and her gemæcce
Someone deeply familiar with the seventh century recently admitted she’d had to go hunting on my other blog, Gemæcca: The story of…
Read moreHild: risk and reward
From: Anonymous Actually, this has nothing to do with chive flowers or diet. I am curious how you had the guts/courage/ intestinal…
Read moreBee feet on my food
I’ve been eating a lot of chive flowers. (A lot, period.) This is a photo I took the other day with my…
Read moreWhat I’ve been up to
Things have been a bit quiet around here because I’ve been busy. I’m back in physical therapy, this time something called neuro-physiotherapy,…
Read moreBattle cry for humanity…
Whenever news like this (the Church of England’s idiotic pronouncements about same-sex marriage) get you down, remember this: As Benjamin Zander, conductor…
Read moreCarmina Burana will never be the same…
Many (many!) thanks to Angelique for this. I’ll be singing about that octopus all day: Get him some boots! Send him to…
Read moreQueer updates
I keep meaning to mention these things as I stumble across them, but then, well, life happens and they fall off my…
Read moreThe gentrification of lesbian fiction
The Los Angles Review of Books has an interesting piece by Emily Douglas on Sarah Schulman’s latest, The Gentrification of the Mind….
Read moreThe nuns aren’t rolling over
The Vatican vs. uppity nuns battle is shaping up to be misogyny vs. nunsense, or perhaps Vatican vs. Vatican II. As I…
Read moreKelley, Ray Bradbury, and Nature
FIRST of all, Kelley has written a most marvellous and heartfelt piece about the necessity of finding everyday magic to write: …But…
Read moreWords matter: creating culture, saving lives
The Lambda Literary Awards were presented last night. It sounds like a wonderful evening. There’s a write-up, including a full list of…
Read moreWays writers benefit from Clarion West’s Write-a-thon
Clarion West (CW), the best speculative fiction writing workshop in the world, is gearing up for another six-week workshop, in which eighteen…
Read morePerbs in bloom
Well, I meant to write a meaty review of Superior for today but instead lost myself in watching the bees zuzz in…
Read moreSuperior
Last year I blogged about a movie about a 12-year old boy with MS who turns into an adult superhero, Superior. Well,…
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