My newest freelance client is Jew-ish.com, the young, hip, online brand of the Jewish Transcript - er, I mean JTNews. I'm doing a monthly column about Jewish music, and my first column went live this week!

www.jew-ish.com

Direct link: http://jew-ish.com/index.php?/stories

I've been toying with the idea of making this blog a little more directed. It has always been (for the last nine years I've had it, sweet clattering mackerels) a mixture of "this is what I did today," and "here's something amusing to read." I will probably still use it for the "so today work sucked but then I ate a sandwich it was pretty good" ( Read more... )

I have been oh-so busy lately, but I want to impart some information to all of you ( Read more... )

Friday night was the best night I have had in months, New Orleans and Israel notwithstanding. Okay, so the best night in Seattle I've had in a long time. The point is, Friday night made me happy.

Steel Tigers of Death were playing at The Funhouse, which is always good times. I was already on the bus there by the time I realized that this night ( Read more... )

Some of you may recall that a few months ago, I wrote an article about folk-punk for Razorcake. It didn't work out for the print version of the magazine (long story you're not going to hear), but they always need good web content, so it was added to the site a few days ago.

Feast your mind upon THIS!
Sarah's Introduction to Folk-PunkI only wrote ( Read more... )

I vacillated over whether I should wait to post this, or do it now and risk jinxing everything. Turns out I'm far too excited not to.

A week or so before my trip to Virginia, I sat down with my very favoritest punk band in Seattle, Steel Tigers of Death, and interviewed them for Razorcake. Todd Taylor (the zine's editor) had asked me to do so ( Read more... )

Yesterday work was completely intolerable. That's because it was an impediment to the single greatest event of my life...in the past year at least. I got to meet Emma Bull and Will Shetterly ( Read more... )

I almost forgot in the midst of craziness at work (we're trying to open a new store in under a month), the snow (two inches and the whole city's at sixes and sevens), and hanging out with my new friend James...

But check this out.
www.razorcake.org

Thanksgiving was nice. Did some laundry at home, made pies, ate food, saw family. My uncle hooked back up with his girlfriend that he broke up with like, 4 years ago? I dunno, it was weird. Found out my brother is playing Rocky, that was cool ( Read more... )

I am working on my short story right now and I feel marvelous. I haven't worked on it in awhile and it had been troubling me ( Read more... )