Nicola Griffith

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

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Marriage equality hearings at the Supreme Court

Tomorrow the Supreme Court hears arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the Proposition 8 case regarding the legality of same-sex marriage in California. On…

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Posted on March 25, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Tiny Tim: Prisoner of Love

Until I started playing ukulele I’d never heard of Tiny Tim. I was surprisingly okay with that. But now I’ve discovered that…

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Posted on March 12, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Some interesting bits of an interesting year, Part One

As always, it’s been an interesting year. Despite rewriting Hild, a 200,000 words novel, more than once, I managed to do a…

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Posted on December 29, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

A drunk in a midnight choir…

Guess what kind of day we’re planning to have… Christmas always makes me think of Midnight Mass. And in every Midnight Mass…

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Posted on December 24, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Me doing a cover of "My Girl is Queen of the Savages" on ukulele

Yesterday was the 13-week anniversary of getting Jeepster: she is a quarter of a year old. To celebrate, I’d meant to record…

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Posted on November 28, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Diptic: a nifty new photo app

I’ve discovered a nifty new app, Diptic, that let’s you snap pix and then build a composite: a mini document of the day….

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Posted on October 26, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

In which I play the ukulele

slinging on the old uke to show it to Kelley’s folks I’ve had my ukulele exactly one week. I’ve just recorded my…

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Posted on September 5, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Ukulele acquisition syndrome

Via a friend (thanks, Karina) this video of how to make one tiny ukulele sound like an entire studio-of-musicians playing “Billie Jean.”…

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Posted on May 1, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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