An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
I’ve never watched Dawson’s Creek before, but I love the Scream movies and Everwood, and I believe in following the writer…
And it is fascinating watching this show morph from Scream outtakes into a rough draft of Everwood. Continue reading “Watching Dawson’s Creek”
Pandaria is one of my favorite Warcraft expansions, probably only second to Legion. So, I had to make a panda album to go with all the others. To get the right sound for most of these tracks, I added the flavor word “cozy.”
If you’re doing an album about an off-brand Pandaria, you’ve got to have a song about how the whole place is sailing around on the back of a giant turtle. Continue reading “Insipid Liner Notes: Doo-Wop Panda”
by Mary E. Lowd
A thought object is bouncing around in my brain
If I write it down
It’s like catching the fly
That’s bouncing around inside the room with you
Except… Continue reading “Four is Twice in Every Direction”
by Mary E. Lowd
Every night my mind does origami
With my memories
Folding up my life like an accordion
Fanning it out like an antelope
Or an armadillo Continue reading “Origami”
by Mary E. Lowd
Continuity of self
Is fundamentally about
Completeness of self
When there is discontinuity
It feels like part of me
Is missing
by Mary E. Lowd
The cat went fishing
While wishing
For fish drenched in an ocean
Of lemon and butter sauce Continue reading “Lemon Tarts”
by Mary E. Lowd
Pink slender mushrooms
Rising from a concrete wall
Growing into green
That rises like a person
Raising a hand
Toward the sun
Lt. Jordan LeGuin was definitely the star of my table at this Worldcon. We’ve sold more of his action figure and book, TECHNO-TABBY ENGINEER, than anything else at this con, except of course for the usual standbys of THE NECROMOUSER and OTTERS IN SPACE.
Listening to an entire Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobook in one day is a lot. It reminds me of when I used to reserve Farscape DVDs at the library, and then have only one week to watch a whole season. Mind-smashingly intense. Continue reading “Leaving Worldcon, Listening to DCC”
I’m vending books at Worldcon. It’s my third con of the summer, following BayCon and Trek to Vegas. And I’ve been trying to figure out if this is something I want to make a regular part of my life… or something that ends up, ultimately, costing more in effort than it’s worth. Continue reading “Vending Books”
If you want to know what I think, read my books. I wrote every word.
If you want to know what I feel, listen to the music I curate. A team of AI programs help me create it, but it captures my heart and soul better than I’m ever able to on my own. Continue reading “My Soul and My Heart’s Inspiration”