Random Retro Riffraff #8: Libby’s Corn and Wiener Roast
Here’s a fun thing to do at dinnertime if you have 8 spare wieners just lying around making you mad. Gash them lengthwise,…
Hop Against Homophobia and Transphobia: Religion & Sexuality
Today is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, and I’m honored to participate in the HAHAT blog hop created by some amazing…
Random Retro Riffraff #7: The Jolly Green Giant Doll
Special offer for boys and girls who eat their vegetables: a lifetime of night terrors, courtesy of Green Giant. Actually, the first line…
The Leigh Ann Kopans Interview: Brackets, Outlines, X-Men, & More!
Debut YA author Leigh Ann Kopans is pretty damn awesome, as you might have guessed if you follow her on Twitter, keep up…
Have some Lawrence Welk retrofuturism
Moon scooters. Dry ice. Bubble helmets. Forgotten chanteuses who sing like a French detergent commercial and wear frosted lipstick. They warble enchantingly and…
ONE by Leigh Ann Kopans: A Five Reasons Review
[This is the first of my “every-so-often” Five Reasons Reviews, in which I spotlight a new or classic YA book I really liked…
New book review & Geek Week Giveaway at Pants Off Reviews
Special thanks and snickerdoodles to Darien Moya of Pants Off Reviews, who posted a great review of How to Repair a Mechanical Heart this…
5 Writers Accept the Show-Us-Your-Character Challenge!
A few days ago, I posted about my new favorite procrastination tool—the addictive character generators over at Azalea’s Dolls, where I made this…
PROCRASTINATORS BEWARE: The most diabolical distraction you’ll encounter all week
I don’t want to alarm you, but I think there might be something wrong with me. I mean, empirically, there has to be…
Random Retro Riffraff #6: The Gnome Family
Today’s Random Retro is a trippy vintage toy ad from the 1979 issue of Life magazine. If you suffer from GRSD (Gnome-Related Stress…