Describing characters of color
I've been aware for a while now of the penchant that many white writers have for using food metaphors to...
Up!
Just saw Up. Lovely movie. Thoroughly charming. Contains a zeppelin. Made me cry, made me laugh. Too sleepy (and have...
Some writing, some reading/listening
Took a break from magazine stuff to wander over to the East Bay for a writing-in-a-café afternoon. Wrote 1600+ words...
Grilled cheese sandwiches, the euphemism
Two kinda-NSFW items whose juxtaposition amused me: At some point in the past couple days, I happened across a post...
House location
The most commonly asked question about my new house, in all online contexts, has been "Where is it?" I've mentioned...
Singly none
Nice post at Blue Hampshire about people who contributed to bringing about marriage equality—a good reminder that these things come...
I have a house!
Remember how the other day I wrote about not wanting to talk about house stuff to keep from jinxing it?...
Some Movable Type settings (technical)
I'm poking around in some MT settings (trying to figure out why my blog doesn't get spam any more, since...
Survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Happened across this article a couple weeks ago: "The Luckiest or Unluckiest Man in the World? Tsutomu Yamaguchi, double A-bomb...
Worry, hope, and jinxing things
My father used to say something like "Worry is negative hope"—by which he meant, as I understood it, that worrying...
Six states!
Today, the New Hampshire state Senate and House voted yes to same-sex marriage, and Governor Lynch signed the bill into...
Submission milestone
Last Friday, the 22nd of May, the Strange Horizons fiction department received our 25,000th valid submission. I don't know which...