Sarah Monette's Blog, page 91

Scott Simon on the murder of Stephen Tyrone Johns

(link via matociquala)

Bigotry is a virus.

Stephen Tyrone Johns

This is the Holocaust Museum guard who died yesterday. He deserves to be remembered.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Cat Valente is in dire economic straits. But she has a plan. Go check it out, and do what seems best to you.

Little Wheel

OneClickDog Games has come out with a flash game called Little Wheel. It's a very short game, and very simple (I'd guess it took me about five minutes), but as with Mateusz Skutnik's Submachine games, what delights me is the art and the world-building--and, for Little Wheel, the animation.

It was a lovely palate cleanser before I run errands this afternoon, and I commend it to your attention.

Say it with me:

Evil AND crazy.

Stephen Tyrone Johns, rest in peace. My deep sympathy goes to the people whose love for you is now in the past tense.

The Parable of the Shower

Let me recommend to you "The Parable of the Shower" by Leah Bobet (a.k.a. cristalia), which is trenchant and thoughtful and passionate about any number of things, is a wickedly wickedly brilliant use of the second-person narrator, and also makes me laugh like a loon: The angel of the LORD cometh upon you in the shower at the worst possible moment: one hand placed upon thy right buttock and the other bearing soap, radio blaring, humming a heathen song of sin.

You will so not regret reading this st

Roses

Today I planted two Cerise Bouquet climbing roses, in the hopes that they will be obliging enough to climb the trellis on the west end of the front porch. I am uneasily aware that I am standing at the top of a slippery slope, rose-wise, and am hoping that my aversion to sunlight will keep me strong.

Also, a plug: HelpMeFind.Com is very aptly named, for they did, in fact, help me find the identity of my roses. (The nursery from which I got them had had them for quite a while and had lost their inf

Fourth Street Fantasy Convention

Fourth Street is June 19-21. There are still memberships available.

I am on:

Reasons Things Go Wrong 7:30pm - 8:30pm Friday
Embracing Exposition 3:00pm - 4:15pm Saturday
Food Fashion and Fornication 7:30pm - 8:30pm Saturday
The Stuff of Fantasy 2:45pm - 4:30pm Sunday

I am shy and near-sighted, but that doesn't mean I don't want to talk to you, and I don't snub people deliberately. So if you're at Fourth Street and you want to say hello, please do.

The Virtu; Or, sleary is a Hero of the Revolution

Previously, on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ...

No, wait. That's something else.

Buttercup is marry Humperdinck ...

No, that's something else, too.

*ahem*

As many of you know, The Virtu is out of print. Back when I first posted about it, the unbelievably awesome sleary said she knew where to get remaindered copies and volunteered to act as a buying agent; I have just received an update from her, as follows:

After the first round of comments, I had more requests than books. The manager promised to find mor

one last Q&A (Q&A 33)

Q: What is your next project?

A: Well, I'm (allegedly) working on A Reckoning of Men, which is the sequel to A Companion to Wolves that matociquala and I are writing. I'm also (allegedly) working on an episode of Shadow Unit. The next novel--assuming somebody ever buys it--on which I continue to be stuck like Pooh in Rabbit's doorway, is The Emperor of the Elflands/The Winter Emperor/The Goblin Emperor (I'm also having trouble with the title), and I need to look very carefully at Cormorant Child