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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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…
Read moreSome 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…
Read moreA 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…
Read moreMe 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…
Read moreDiptic: 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….
Read moreIn 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…
Read moreUkulele 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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