Sara Ryan » Asides

You already know this

Sara — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:48:48 +0000

…if you are my Facebook friend, but I have succumbed to Yet Another Social Network. I’m ryansara on Twitter.

So far I am pretty quiet. Also I am not following people I do not know at least kind of in real life. And even if I do know you I might not follow you. Please do not take offense. I am still figuring out how much I can fragment my attention before it shatters completely.

Red balloons

Sara — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:31:26 +0000

Steve commented, “I guess the other 97 must be elsewhere…”

Mishmash

Sara — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:22:22 +0000

I saw these two objects on the sidewalk, along with many other abandoned possessions, some in boxes:

My new glasses, which are also my great-grandmother’s old glasses:

You should read:

Mike Martin’s thematic analysis of Sara Zarr’s Story of a Girl

Vice Magazine’s interview of Ursula LeGuin

And you should watch the fabulous Canadian series Slings and Arrows, about the travails of the New Burbage Shakespeare Festival. This is the first nine or so minutes of the first episode of the first season. I would advise against Googling about it, spoilers abound. Just watch:

Grocery confidential

Sara — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:09:13 +0000

Scene: Safeway. Steve and I are contemplating the vanilla selection.

Steve: Which one?

Me: I don’t know, the organic is probably better, but it’s also sixteen dollars.

Mustachioed Clerk (sotto voce): Have you considered Aisle Twelve?

Me (blinking): No…what’s on Aisle Twelve?

M. C. (with evident satisfaction): Mexican vanilla.

Fast away the old year passes

Sara — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:16:25 +0000

Or rather, passed.

If the first day of the year portends the year itself in miniature, 2009 will include festivity, friends, sleep — punctuated by peculiar half-remembered dreams — and then quiet time for writing. There are worse omens.

Happy New Year, y’all.

Just in case

Sara — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:33:20 +0000

…you thought that my lack of election-related blogging was an indication that I am uninvested in the outcome, let me assure you that the truth is precisely the opposite.

Mountain Goats redux: cheerier this time

Sara — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:03:16 +0000

After last night’s concert, in addition to an unexpected catharsis, now I have enough Mountain Goats T-shirts to go an entire work week wearing a different one each day. Yes, I am that much of a fan. (Did you notice the Goats lyric in Rules? )

Nice Bite.

Sara — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:33:34 +0000

I got my braces off.

The dental assistant offered me the plaster casts of my teeth that they used to fit me for my retainers. “As, you know, a memento. You have a nice bite.”

“Oh, yeah!” I enthused. “It’s kinda like owning my own skull!”

But her ghoulishness wasn’t equal to mine.

“Not very much like that,” she said. “Not much like that at all.”

Spam fortune

Sara — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:39:14 +0000

“Crafting tractable cohesive contender.”

I’m trying, comment spammers, I’m trying.

I might have more to say about Anaheim

Sara — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:49:59 +0000

…but what I really want to do right now is point you all toward the Eggcorn Database.

My favorite so far: mindgrain.