I amuse myself lately looking at skate art, or graffiti art, or whatever the heck it’s called these days. Kevin is out of town, leaving me at home with my dogs, weaponry, and Assassin’s Creed 2 expansions. There are tadpoles in my rain barrel. I drank too much coffee today and now I’m jittery and […]
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Hey, gang! Time for yet another installment of Ursula Comments On Peculiar Fairy Tales. This time, since they’re both short, we’re doing two versions of Cinderella. One is Greek and one is from Georgia (Not the one with Atlanta.) They both have some very odd moments, but since neither is very long, it’d be a […]
Doing some quick and silly pieces in a desperate attempt to squeeze art in around the edges of Dragonbreath and writing. And because I wanted to outline some things in white. BECAUSE I CAN, DAMNIT. That grumpy red fellow is called a “Tur.” It’s a type of mountain antelope-goat-thingy that lives in the Caucasuses. […]
The idea for this has been kicking around for awhile, and I figure perhaps I will finally get it down, in hopes that it might be useful for con organizers (and artists) out there somewhere. I have been a Guest of Honor at a fair number of conventions over the years, starting back in the […]
We could probably all use a laugh today, and hopefully y’all aren’t sick of these yet… Big thanks to reader Persephone_Kore for sending a link to this one (and a couple others I still need to check out, too!) This one is short and sweet, and has a nice twist on some of the standard […]
A red-eyed vireo is lurking in the backyard, beating larvae to death on branches. In celebration of yard-bird number #54 (not bad for not being on a body of water!) I give you a bird-themed annotated fairy tale! This one’s from Serbia, bears strong resemblances to the Firebird story from Russia, and while much of […]
Thank you, internet! You’ve been most helpful, both on the travel-to-France front and the recommend-a-paranormal-romance front. On that last note, let me take a moment to put some fears to rest—I am enormously flattered that so many of you say that you’d want to read the book I’d write, and not to worry about the […]
Hey, Internet, I need advice! For her 60th birthday, I’m taking my mom on a trip, and she picked the Loire Valley in France. Great! Awesome! She is armed with many guidebooks and we have more or less figured to use Chinon as a base of operations, spend a few days checking out castles (woohoo, […]
Well, gang, it’s the middle of the night, I’ve got insomnia, and that can only mean that it’s time for another Annotated Fairytale! There’s a whole class of stories about hog and hedgehog bridegrooms, some of which are weirder and grimmer than others. The hedgehog ones tend to be variations on a theme, and rather […]
I enjoy Sarah Rayne’s books. I want to say that right now. They are frequently a bit cheesy and they’re thrillers and there are Horrible Dark Goings-On and the right people always live through the book, and all this makes me very happy. (I have had one or two complaints about individual plot points, which […]
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