Sara Ryan

From my spam filter: Wedding Rings Class Rings Pearl Harbor What’s the funniest and/or oddest spam you’ve gotten lately?

Do you have any? I’m gonna update my FAQ. (Where F=”at least twice.”)

I’d never been to an outdoor rock festival before. As far back as the first Lollapalooza, I remember being jealous of friends who went, but somehow, I never got it together to attend one until yesterday. The Sasquatch Festival, at the Gorge. Steve and I went with friends whose musical knowledge and experience with such [...]

I recently got a mix CD that included a song called “The Devil Glitch (Short version).” I was intrigued. Found out that what I had was a condensed version of the officially-designated-by-the-Guiness-Book-of -World-Records World’s Longest Pop Song, aka “Major Glitch” by Chris Butler. The song also functions as a musical version of the Oblique Strategies, [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the value of revealing ignorance in conversation. My default, self-protective stance is to nod, smile, resolve to look it up later.  But that cuts me off from the chance to find out more about a subject directly from the person who brought it up. I’m trying to convince [...]

Trying to psych myself up and not out. Same coffeeshop, same mix CD. We’ll see how it goes. P. S. If you’ve been reading me for a while, it will probably not surprise you that I very strongly recommend the latest in the 33 1/3 series, John Darnielle’s Black Sabbath Master of Reality, whether or [...]

1. Can’t stop listening to Busdriver. Anyone have some “if you like Busdriver, you’ll like…” suggestions? 2. Love this post from Jonathan Carroll that begins: “Part of creating is letting go.” I needed to hear that. You, too? 3. A chicken with a skull necklace: 4. Been thinking a lot about this quote from Mark [...]

I was burned out on the notion of writing a con report until I thought of doing haikus. Then the whole gang got into it. Here are some of mine: Loud fight with girlfriend turns into performance art when you’re cosplaying. Warren Ellis said He wanted to have me killed Most effective blurb. We’re webcomics [...]

It is already Tuesday and Friday after work I will be on a train to Seattle for the Emerald City Con! All with the books and comics and buttons and whatnot! I put those exclamation points in to help inspire myself, because right now this second I’m thinking dang, I am tired and it would [...]