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Stone Telling: Silence to Speech (Issue 1)
I don't think I've mentioned this yet, but Stone Telling: The Magazine of Boundary-crossing Poetry is really very good. Rose Lemberg is its editor, and she is really very good too, and not just as a poet herself. Stone Telling's first issue -- appropriately themed, Silence to Speech -- begins as I hope it means to continue: with a distinctive ( Read more... ) -
Oh, CURLY COMMA FROM WORD
How I loathe you when it comes time to code. And that goes double for you, apostraphe! Double! -
Little Tolerance
I find that I have little tolerance for some of the shapes Nationalism takes. If I were Janet of ballad-fame, and my countrymen* were Tam Lin, sometimes the sad fact of the matter is I'd probably let go out of disgust. I think one of the most loathsome shapes I've seen take it is the "Eh, it's happening over there, they'll be fine" shape. The " ( Read more... ) -
Idylls
What I've decided I want to do one day is have an Idylls of the King feast-day and party, in which the entire Idylls are read (and acted!) alloud by amazing people I know, costumes are worn and shared, Excalibur is watched (and maybe the Sword in the Stone), and the food is creative and faux-medieval (but, naturally, not really medieval - chips and ( Read more... ) -
The Faery Market
... or, in which Jess decides to put her boredom to good use, and make people THINGS (of a mostly musical cd mix nature) for to snailmail out. So hey, hey, hey, if you want a pretty cardpictureletterthing maybealittleswirlofhandspunyarn or possibly just an incredible mix cd, and you are also reading this, you should completely comment below or ( Read more... ) -
A Brief Note on Heroines
I know I like them to be quickwitted. I know I like them to believe in love, but to have other things to do, rather than just trying to win it or destroy it or bitch about not having it or finding it for others (and thereafter winning it, but without effort). I like them to be a story that isn't about hooking up, or staying good while somebody ( Read more... ) -
Hungry
I've been hungry for the strangest things ( Read more... ) -
In Which Jess Reads The Mill On The Floss By George Eliot
Jess, on sudden whim: Lalala. I think I will read Mill on the Floss by George Eliot. I don't know anything about it, but I've always wanted to read one of her novels ( Read more... ) -
Wild Hunt and Minotaur
Quick; before I forget ( Read more... ) -
vampire lecture
I am fresh from the bed, the covers are still warm, my coherence is not yet cohesive. I had a dream last night; not as narrative as usual. The last part of the dream - on a whim, I decided to get in line and audition to be the host to some HBO or Shotime or - don't remember - show about vampires. I'd passed the line and the audition earlier, on ( Read more... )