Sara Ryan

Snag’s commitment to recycling: Five additional names we call him that are not swears: Count Snagula Mister Underfoot Little Mister CrazyEyes Snack Cake No No No No No And the new podcast is up: Empress of the World, part eight

I’m reading From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. It goes well with Metafilter and AskMetafilter, both of which I’ve been spending a lot of time on, though so far just lurking. I’ve been interested in online communities — how people get involved with them, what [...]

Okay, not really. But I just added a real bio to sararyan.com, so the curious can discover what I got certificates of achievement for in 1983.

Yes, it’s the latest podcast. And now you should be able to find it in the iTunes store and actually subscribe.

Shockingly* for a feminist who’s been to Clarion, I’ve never read James Tiptree, Jr. But with this biography, just as in The Futurians, I get the sense of what it was like to be part of the project of sf — the vision of what the future could be, in both utopian and dystopian terms. [...]

these bands won’t be playing until after the conference is over: On a similar note: I admired, and then Googled, Kim Paone’s t-shirt. Unrelated P.S.: I wish I had my headphones. The hipster embrace of bands I hated in the 80s is making this otherwise lovely coffeehouse an irritating environment…

Many thanks to everyone who came to the party Friday night. It was great to see y’all. I ran out of items! But there will be more items in the future. Today, among other things, I went to the library and took two odd photos. Then I went to the parking garage and took one [...]

heartspinicon Originally uploaded by sararyan. Not long after I’d finally — finally — decided on the title of my new book, I went to an estate sale, like you do. The deceased had gloriously gaudy taste in jewelry, and I was dazzled, but there was so much, it was sort of overwhelming. Then I saw [...]

…is another picture of the snow in Portland. blurrysnowsoldier Originally uploaded by sararyan. Especially one from a cameraphone. I wonder how many other Terracotta Army soldiers were caught in the snow. P.S. This post is also, in case it wasn’t clear, Flickr practice. I haven’t used my Flickr account since the Gijon trip, and I [...]

If I did it right, I think the podcast should soon show up both in the iTunes store and in the Yahoo!Podcasts directory. Weird: having to tag it “explicit.” Oh, my foul-mouthed characters. Now: to figure out what the podcast image should be…hmmm…