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In the “You Could Not Make This Up” department
…And it’s fascinating. Purported descendants of the Knights Templars are suing Pope Benedict for recognition of the seizure of a hundred billion Euros’ worth of their ancestors’ assets and property in the mid-1200s. (The seizure was secondary to accusations that the Order was heretical, and involved — among other things — in devil worship: but these accusations now usually [...]
Sung dynasty porcelain: yum
While working on something else, I just caught a teaser on Euronews about this exhibition marking the reopening of the National Palace Museum in Taiwan. I’m a sucker for antique porcelain, and this stuff is sublime. (BTW, Gung hei fat choi, everybody. It’s the Year of the Fire Pig, which is supposed to be good [...]
Stonehenge…where the party animals go! …Er, went.
Archaeologists have found the remains of an ancient settlement two miles from Stonehenge which seems to have been built specifically to celebrate the Winter Solstice… big time. The new finds at Durrington Walls, two miles northeast of the stone circle, indicate that the entire region was a large religious complex where the early Britons gathered [...]
Goody Two Shoes
Not about Jade. (Well, only peripherally.) The inevitable comments are starting to come out of the British newspapers regarding the Big Brother bullying-and-racism flap. A few of the articles are making puns on Jade’s last name, including a very specific one: Is it too late to be Goody Two-Shoes?, etc. And something about that brought [...]
Is this minimalist enough?
hanukit01 Originally uploaded by designsponge. …Though I imagine you’d have to say the blessing real fast on the eighth night… [tags]minimalism, minimalist, Hanukkah, Chanukah[/tags]
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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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