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An afternoon at Trinity
Just another day in the great Long Room of Trinity’s famous library. Except for once it wasn’t being “borrowed” without credit by George Lucas. Having earlier stopped in at Áras an Uachtaráin to be greeted by the President of Ireland, and having then laid a wreath at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, Queen Elizabeth [...]
A royal wedding sentiment
As usual, old Sam Pepys says it best in his great Diary. “December 25: To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day: and the young people so merry with one another, and strange to see what delight we married people have to see [...]
What, no Burton?
Was watching the BBC program last night on the Arabian Nights, featuring Richard Grant. When they started dealing with the issue of translations, it surprised me a little that not a single word was said about Sir Richard Burton, though a fair amount of air time was spent on Edward William Lane, whose version of [...]
In the O RLY? Dep’t: Dinosaurs helped build the pyramids
Srsly. Now all we need to hear is that Hitler was somehow involved and we’ll have the perfect documentary pitch for The History Channel. (It could have made a good Stargate SG-1 script too, but unfortunately it’s a little late for that. See, the Goa’uld started experimenting with re-evolved saurians as hosts, but then the Ancients… [...]
A timeline of Internet memes
This is cool! And apparently it’s still growing (to judge by the “Add An Event” button). Tags: Internet, history, meme, online
About the blogger
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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