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In the Completely Unexpected and Fairly Goofy Dep’t: the HomerEuro
A one-Euro coin with Homer Simpson’s face on it has turned up in Spain. No, really. (more here and here) By rights, though, it should have turned up in Greece. (Just sayin’…) Tags: Homer+Simpson, Euro, coin, forgery, hilarious, Simpsons, counterfeit, defacement
Something strangely cool
Watching “Justice League Unlimited” as Gaeilge / in Irish. (Unfortunately I don’t seem able to find any online links to demonstrate how it looks / sounds. But TG4, the national Irish-language service, is showing it at the moment.)
Help Save Totoro’s forest
Just stumbled across a reference to this at Lou Romano’s weblog — TotoroForestProject.com Totoro Forest Project is an international charity effort to save Sayama Forest, also known as Totoro Forest. This endangered sanctuary on the outskirts of Tokyo is where director Hayao Miyazaki got the inspiration for his much-loved character “Totoro”. Over 200 top international [...]
“Does just what it says on the can”
As the commercial over here would have it. Bunny Suicides Absolutely not worksafe if your boss finds it odd that you should break down in front of the monitor weeping with laughter.
“In the mansion of free speech cartoons have an honourable room…”
My favorite article from the Times this morning… A free society survives partly because the powerful are mocked, and their pretensions undermined. Religions, which guard their own illusions carefully, are particularly ripe for satire. And they should be… Orwell once remarked that one reason fascism never took off in Britain was because the sight of [...]
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30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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