Nicola Griffith

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

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Bare Hands

I got this yesterday: video put together by Lou Duffy-Howard, bassist extraordinaire, for “Bare Hands,” a track recorded by Janes Plane, the band I was in, in 1982. I was 21.

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Posted on February 3, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Touching Fire video

“Sun on Dragonfly” is a video made in response to an audio excerpt of my story,”Touching Fire.” Maybe NSFW.

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Posted on April 9, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

International Women’s Day

33 years ago today, International Women’s Day 1982, my band, Janes Plane, debuted…

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Posted on March 8, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Annual Christmas tradition: blowing up the tree

In what has become an annual tradition at the Griffith-Eskridge household, Kelley lovingly selects a tree and drags it home. We decorate…

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Posted on December 21, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

You can have it all if you love to read

The lyrics say it all, really: There’s a story waiting to be toldWaiting for all of us, whether we’re young or oldThe…

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Posted on July 23, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Ella Fitzgerald captures Sunday perfectly

The first song is “Something to Live For,” written by Billy Strayhorn (who arranged the music, too, I think) and performed by…

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Posted on July 22, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Dirty Old Town

This is “Dirty Old Town,” by Ewan MacColl. As Prospero, the Economist art blog, points out: “Although about Salford, it could be…

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Posted on March 24, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

22-minute Game of Thrones featurette

Not much that’s new, but some tantalising glimpses of luscious scenery. And in just over a week, we’ll see the beginning of…

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Posted on March 23, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Robot ping-pong, robot music

Jet lag means I’m doing nothing but roam around the kitchen munching on random food items, then folding in a heap thinking…

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Posted on March 3, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Pigbag

This isn’t a video, just an excuse to play the music. “Papa’s Got a Brand New Pigbag” by Pigbag, was a track…

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Posted on February 11, 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

Destroy MS with spectacular violence!

For those who don’t like reading serious science stuff, today I’m offering a fun and violent solution to the problem of multiple…

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Posted on December 30, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Cars crash from the sky

A funny thing happened on the way to lunch at Julia’s today… That Wallingford intersection will never be the same. I’m now…

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Posted on December 28, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Blue Peter annual is no more

Peter Purves, Lesley Judd and John Noakes, 1977 The very first literary prize I ever won was in 1971. It was a…

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Posted on September 24, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The Eagle

http://www.focusfeatures.com/swf/fifplayer.swf I loved Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth. (I love all her books; great stuff.) I love sword-and-pony movies. I…

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Posted on February 7, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Jedi police officers. really

A BBC report on Thursday: Eight police officers serving with Scotland’s largest force listed their official religion as Jedi in voluntary diversity…

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Posted on April 18, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

making more money on YouTube

Okay. This is turning into Flake Week for me. Sorry. Coming up soon: more audio (a reading from Slow River), another roundup…

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Posted on October 15, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

pretty good

From: kt good (doubledog2u@yahoo.com) I heard your interview. It was pretty good (not too short.) I have been working for seven years…

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Posted on April 4, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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