Sara Ryan

My jeans are encrusted with Alcatraz dust, from crawling around taking reference photos in the “Closed for your safety” sections. Eventually I will explain. Here is an example: And I got to see sdn and meet literaticat and soon I will see gordonzola and jactitation. Also, thanks to the nice person who commented and wanted [...]

A review by Terry Castle of Elsie de Wolfe’s The House in Good Taste makes me nod my head vigorously. I’m not quite as obsessed as Ms. Castle confesses to being, but certainly I’ll cop to owning a fair number of shelter-related titles. I’m particularly inclined to seek out books like this and this — [...]

You should read Mark Jude Poirier‘s book Modern Ranch Living. It is funny and mean and also sad, and involves, among other things: a girl with idiosyncratic grammar who is obsessed with fitness (but in a weightlifting, running, and swimming kind of way, not an anorexic way) a man who is thirty, lives with his [...]

Those of you who play videogames and/or online games, what’s your favorite? And why?

…some people might find it creepy that among the books I bought at an estate sale today was The Hour of Our Death, by Philippe Ariès, “a landmark history of Western Man’s changing attitudes toward death — and thus his perceptions of life itself — over the last one thousand years.” The sale took place [...]

On writerly self-promotion. *Actually, way more than two, if you read the comments on the first link. Actually, this post was mostly an excuse to link to that second site. Because I was a Medieval Studies major. Not that the first isn’t worthwhile reading, too. Oh, never mind. ::backing away from the computer::

So tonight I’m kinda low-energy, and I thought, hey, I know a mindless task. I’ll go through the CD notebooks and start ripping everything to iTunes. And I open the first notebook, contemplate my musical taste circa 1995, and realize, dang, there’s almost nothing in here I actually want on my computer/iPod/mind. Thank god for [...]

Boxing? Way harder than trapeze. Further bulletins as events warrant.

It was great to see folks at the show Saturday! On Sunday, as is my tradition at comic conventions, I abandoned our table to wander the city. I bought music: Lost and Safe, The Books (sound collage-y, mellow) Lovekraft, Super Furry Animals (bringing the funk from Wales) If You’re Feeling Sinister, Belle and Sebastian (see [...]