I am sometimes crushed by paralyzing guilt for not posting stuff here more often. Lately, I've been trying to remember that this isn't because I've fallen into a zombified, do-nothing rut (which would have been the case in years past), but because I actually am being productive, trying o...

I've been sucked into another Black Hole of Writing That Does Not Involve Writing Here. I might have a self-indulgent playlist that goes with it, even! Would you like to hear?! No? OK. Let's talk about something else. I visited my friend Mary in Phoenix a few weeks ago. The Mary from this st...

Why the lack of updates, Sarah? Are you committing more petty theft? Making social blunders too embarrassing to share, even on the internet? Twittering your life away? Whywhywhy?!? Because my brain is slowly melting out of my ears, that's why! I just...have no life right now. I am working on Stu...

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about groups. Posses, if you will. I have a few of them. The online geek posse -- spread out geographically, connected by our nerdblogs and Twitchats. The day-to-day social circle -- workmates from different backgrounds who bond via in-jokes and shared circumstances ...

So I went on vacation. We drove through the mountains. We saw Wall-E and Wanted. I ate amazing burritos, gigantic donuts and a really weird plate of stuff from a spectacularly bad Chinese food buffet. I bought a lot of comics and was complimented on my Manhunter love by the nice fanboy at Excalibur....

Does anyone else remember those "embarrassing moments" columns that were, for a time, ubiquitous in all the teen girl rags? Actually, maybe they still exist. Anyway, readers would write in with rilly, rilly EMBARRASSING stuff that had happened to them. Usually, said tales occured at school...

Where have I been? Working. Writing. Not here, obviously, but still. Somewhere in there, I took a trip to the Bay Area. Oakland -- home of my coming of age -- always puts me in the navel-gazey frame of mind, so things might take a turn in that direction up in here. Just for a bit, anyway. You've...

Like many folks, I was sort of skeptical about Twitter. Like, what's it good for, really? Don't we already have blogs and comment threads and message boards and various creepy social networking apps to hold all of our random thought blips and bleeps? But I'm liking it and here's a good example of wh...

One more zine-y post and then I'll actually move on to something else. Below, please find the very first words of the story I contributed to Grok #1, "One Con Glory." Download the full zine to read the rest. It features a female geek/comics fan, a sought-after action figure, a few characte...

Grok #1: An Alert Nerd Zine is here! Go read all about it. And then read the actual zine. Given how easy it is to make all your dumb thoughts known on the internets these days, I don't know if kids even do old skool zines anymore -- you know, with staplers and copy machines and stone tablets and chi...