Sara Ryan

I read We’ve got blog: how weblogs are changing our culture.I’m glad I did. I’m late onto this bandwagon, so it was interesting to see what people who’ve been in on it from early days had to say.

David Brooks has some interesting points in this article.”…everybody can be a snob, because everybody can look down from the heights of his mountaintop at those millions of poor saps who are less accomplished in the field of, say, skateboard jumping, or who are total poseurs when it comes to financial instruments, or who are [...]

…your incredibly cheesy.My pal Mim needs your pickup lines. Ones that you’ve used, ones that have been used at you. Even ones you’ve only heard of people using. She needs them for research. Really. So comment away.

Last night I engaged in the civic (and potentially job-preserving) activity of making calls to encourage people to support the library levy. I got a lot of answering machines.Best message: “Most likely, I’m out dancing.”

The Eugene reading was fabulous. Great crowd. Great bookstore.Funny interaction afterwards: a woman came up to me to compliment me on my reading, and said that Tsunami Books was such a great venue, better than a lot of places, because “You couldn’t say ‘dyke’ out loud at the Eugene Public Library.” My friend Connie said, [...]

Had a great time at the GLSEN conference. I was happy to note that many of the seats in the room for our session were lightly dusted with glitter. Met a bunch of cool folks, including the guy who came up to me afterwards with his boyfriend and said, “You’re funny and cute. And bi [...]

Empress is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. I’ll post about my weekend after I’ve picked my jaw up off the floor.