Ink-Stained Amazons and Gluten-Free Souffles

It’s a wonderful thing to wake up on a cold, rainy, grey Seattle November day is a great guy bringing you delicious homeade goat-cheese and apple souffles. (Gluten-free, of course – e-mail me if you want the recipe.) Delicious and so autumnal. And the first attempt at souffle making!

And today I got to see a friend – Jennifer K. Stuller – read and talk on her book, The Ink-Stained Amazon. She’s a pop-culture feminist historian – kind of a non-fiction version of what I do with poetry – whom I got to know online and then got to meet at Wondercon this year in San Francisco. Particularly memorable was an awesome video on female heroes in pop culture over the last thirty years.
A fun thing about this reading was its location, a secret Seattle Geek hangout called The Wayward Coffeehouse in Greenwood owned and operated by the terrific Bronwen with decor that I would call “Whedon-chic” and a tall stack of sci-fi books on the shelves. Now I want to do a reading there! (Plus they had gluten-free cookies.) See? I had lived in Seattle ten years but never been to this awesome little coffee house (did I mention they screen movies – currently “Joe Versus the Volcano,” one of my all-time favorite movies – there too?) Seattle is a town full of neighborhood surprises that you might never find unless someone you know happens to tell you about them.

Right now I am warming up in front of a fire, I have my new Buffy comic, a couple of books of poetry, and I am feeling terrifically geeky in a town friendly to geeks.