Five Things Make a Post

[ashnistrike]

1. I've started a more public, and more regularly updated, blog on the psychology of sustainability--also on portable sensors, games for change, local foods, and my various other sustainability-related obsessions.

2. Speaking of local foods, our CSA for the past 2 weeks has been full of mushrooms.  This on top of the entirely non-local dried porcini and preserved truffles that showed up for the holidays. There has been mushroom quiche, and mushroom pasta, and cow-share steak with porcini butter.  And I still have to find something to do with the last truffle and a bag of shitakes.  This is not a hardship.

3. I just read Dust Girl by Sarah Zettel.  Fairies in Dust-Bowl-era Kansas, magic based on folk and blues and swing and jazz music, and honest explorations of racial politics.  Many thanks to mrissa for the recommendation.

4. I am now reading Ascension: A Tangled Axon Novel by Jacqueline Koyanagi. This appears to be Firefly fanfic with the serial numbers heavily filed off and replaced by better world-building.  And set in a universe where the unmarked state is dark-skinned lesbian.  If you wanted a novel like that--and don't pretend you didn't--this is totally the novel that you wanted.

5. This item is self-referential.

Comments

[londonbard.livejournal.com]

I've just become one of your followers.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Blog? I'm bookmarking that!

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Awesome, thanks!

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I have Ascension on my inpile by virtue of hawkwing_lb's review; you make it sound interesting but a little bit less close to the space I am writing in than I had thought.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Aside from the inclusion of spaceships and queer people and good writing, it is pretty much nothing like Vega Victrix.