5 things, SPRING AT LAST edition

1. "The Devil in Gaylord's Creek" (Fantasy Magzine 50) made Rich Horton's Recommended Reading list in this month's Locus: "an involving story about a dead girl who has a job killing devils. [. . .] Good and original work."

2. When this part of the Upper Midwest decides to be beautiful, it can knock your socks off.

3. New acupuncturist continues to be made of win and awesome. I've spent most of the last three sessions watching the needles chase the block in my right leg around. It hasn't given in yet, but I think it's getting tired.

4. This coming weekend, matociquala and I are Guests of Honor at LepreCon 37, and they've got their programming schedule up.

5. Speaking of cons, my (eerily symmetrical) WisCon schedule looks like:

• Sat., 1:00-2:15 Celebrating Diana Wynne Jones [moderator]
  
• Sat., 4:00-5:15 Space Fairies from Beyond: reading with Pamela Dean, Cat Valente, David D. Levine, and Seanan McGuire
  
• Sun., 1:00-2:15 Whedonistas
  
• Sun., 4:00-5:15 We're All Mad Here
  

And, of course, the Sign Out on Monday.

In memoriam: Joanna Russ

Joanna Russ
February 22, 1937 - April 29, 2011

I'm going to link to Edna St. Vincent Millay again, because I really don't have better words than the ones she used. Also, because I think it says everything about why I am so sad and unresigned about Russ's death, the review I wrote of The Country You Have Never Seen for Strange Horizons.