Blue Hour – Ally Malinenko

Moar Pie for Everyone, or Why Simon Pegg was right

Hi. So I made it (barely) through my first week of post-trip hangover. It wasn’t easy. More than one cookie were consumed. I had no choice, I tell you! But some cool things did come up, like my getting to talk to Vanessa Barger about This Is Sarah and writing and Antarctica. Thanks Vanessa! And… Continue reading Moar Pie for Everyone, or Why Simon Pegg was right

THIS IS ALLY-WEEN

Happy Halloween kids! Easily my favorite holiday of the year. You can keep your overcooked dried turkeys and your relentless jingle bells. All true mischief makers know that Halloween is the best holiday of the year! I heard from a pretty reliable source there was promise of Dum-Dums in my future. ROOTBEER DUM… Continue reading THIS IS ALLY-WEEN

This is Me (with This is Sarah) Trying to Be Less Annoying

Okay so in an effort not to have a million individual posts here and facebook and tumblr and twitter and thus irritate everyone that I know, I just wanted to set a little bit of space aside to thank all the bloggers who, in just the last few days, have rallied around This Is Sarah… Continue reading This is Me (with This is Sarah) Trying to Be Less Annoying

I Screwed Up

So I screwed up. Shocking, I know. I forgot to thank one of my absolute favorite presses out there because these poems went up on Blue Hour when I was away and it just sort of slipped through the cracks. So my sincere apologies to Blue Hour Press who are wonderful and who took these… Continue reading I Screwed Up

Three “How to be an American” poems up at the Blue Hour

Hi. Morning. So the very awesome trio over at Blue Hour accepted a couple of my poems from the How to be an American series that I’m working on. It’s odd I was just talking to a friend about how I’ve never had such an easy time writing poems – it’s like they’re practically writing… Continue reading Three “How to be an American” poems up at the Blue Hour