Sara Ryan

1. Cartoonists! Bid on the chance to illustrate a Swordspoint comic script by Ellen Kushner. It’s part of the Live Long and Marry fandom fundraiser in support of marriage equality. If I could draw, you can bet I’d be bidding.
2. Read Nicola Griffith’s essay, “Identity and SF,” just posted to her website.
3. When I blogged [...]

I didn’t come of age listening to WFMU. As a matter of fact, unless it was on without my knowing it at someone’s place sometime when I was within the range of its signal, I still haven’t listened (a situation I intend to remedy asap). But Best of LCD: the art and writing of WFMU-FM [...]

A page from Lewis Hyde’s Trickster Makes This World, the stain nicely illustrating the concept he’s about to consider. (It’s the only page in this library copy that’s stained…)

Sighted at Last Thursday. I miss the Clown House.

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 not [...]

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 Haddon, whose A [...]

The room is pretty much packed. They’ve just asked anyone who’s next to an empty seat to raise our hands, so I do, and smile invitingly at a guy who’s still standing, wearing a white oxford with a blood-spatter pattern over a Wire t-shirt. Then I realize, duh, that’s Richard Price.
He’s pleased by the size [...]

I’ve just spent the last half hour or so entering my recently inherited Pogo collection into LibraryThing. When Dad first started collecting Pogo, he wrote his name in the books. Sometimes, underneath, he’d write the city he was living in. Every time I pulled a book off the shelf to enter its title, I looked [...]

I learned two new words: bershon, circuitously via YPulse (by which I mean that YPulse linked to something and that linked to something else and somehow I ended up clicking on this, and rickroll, via Jessamyn. I do not anticipate engaging in rickrolling, but I expect I’ll dig up a bershon photo or several one [...]

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 a [...]

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 OR-DER [...]