Quote of the Day
April 12th, 2011 by Ravven

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” ~Ray Bradbury

Charles de Lint: Cherokee Girl
March 31st, 2011 by Ravven

One of my very favourite authors in the world, Charles de Lint, has just released a CD of his music. Buy Old Blue Truck here, and his wife MaryAnn Harris has released Crow Girls. I think they are both available on iTunes as well.

Bookshops: Brick and Mortar
March 30th, 2011 by Ravven

I buy a lot of books. Our house looks like a second-hand bookshop, and I have to admit that they are on the verge of getting out of control – and I am out of space to put them all. I try to buy what I can second-hand from charity shops, but occasionally I treat [...]

A VERY ZOMBIE HOLIDAY (Instructional video)
March 25th, 2011 by Ravven

This would have been better around the holidays, but I saw a link to this in Nathan Fillion’s twitter feed (yeah, I mainly use Twitter as a celeb-stalking device). Anyway, very retro and cute.  

Spammers Everywhere
March 16th, 2011 by Ravven

I get spam in waves on this blog – sometimes quite a lot, and sometimes just a few. It doesn’t seem to follow the scripted patterns that you would expect. I’ve had periods where I was deleting pages of Chinese or Russian porn or pharmaceutical spam, and then it just goes away. The rest of [...]

Charming
March 11th, 2011 by Ravven

I don’t know what it is about Engrish, or wackily fractured English instructions and signs, that I find so endearing. I absolutely love the one below. I’d bought a maneki neko cat to sit on a shelf in the hallway, facing the front door, for luck. (Hey, I’d sacrifice a chicken or make a deal [...]