That’s what Becky Flynn kept calling us, everyone who was standing in the rain for Basic Rights Oregon‘s Rally to Defend Equality. Here’s some background on why we were out there. I don’t go to a lot of rallies. I once read an interview with Alison Bechdel wherein she confessed that her Dykes To Watch [...]
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Describing the moment when a story first began to take shape: “…then ensued in my mind what a student of chemistry would best understand from the addition of the tiniest little drop of the right kind, precipitating the process of crystallization in a test tube containing some colorless solution. It was at first for me [...]
It’s been a while since I gave in to a meme. I like the way this came out. Want to play along? Post your CD cover in the comments. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first article title on the page is the name of your band. 2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four words of the very last quote [...]
Handy Tip, courtesy of Shannon Hale and Libba Bray: If you’re in a restaurant and you are in a hurry because you have a signing to get to, use the ketchup bottle as a microphone and begin singing an improvised version of “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” with lyrics such as “And I need to [...]
1. We are hosting a cool cartoonist for the next few months. Since she’s been staying with us, we have cooked at home more than we have in an embarrassingly long time. Yay for the good influence of houseguests! 2. SF! I think I’m going to WonderCon. I don’t have the tickets yet but I [...]
N.B.: We did not put him in there.
I am the child of two librarians. I grew up in libraries and used bookstores. I don’t remember Mom or Dad ever telling me that I was too young to read a particular title, though I do remember once being scolded for trying to impress my parents’ friends with what I was reading. So I [...]
The sensationalistic title of Sudhir Venkatesh‘s book, Gang Leader For A Day, is the only thing about it I dislike. In 1989, ponytailed and fresh from following the Dead, Venkatesh started out as a grad student at the University of Chicago. He wanted to study the impact of poverty, specifically on young black men growing [...]
I was thinking about all the books with the premise of the protagonists suddenly getting famous, and the impact of fame upon their lives, and the following sentence popped into my brain: “Celebrities are hot right now.” …four hours til the wake-up call, six til my flight home.
I wonder if they got enough for new uniforms. The tile is embedded in the middle of a busy street. I saw a few similar ones, but they were more fragmentary. Turns out it’s one of these. Perhaps an honest self-assessment? Never know who you’ll run into. Did the paint just happen to peel in [...]
