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OMG, how did I miss this?!
I am a big fan of Benvenuto Cellini’s. Okay, maybe it sounds a little strange to say that, at this end of time: but the man’s personality is an endless fascination to me. He was an exquisitely talented painter and sculptor who worked for popes and kings, a contemporary and acquaintance of Michaelangelo and Leonardo [...]
Looks like the “French” is back in fries
Took them long enough. (eyeroll) Of course, the real joke is that the fries are actually Belgian in origin. (The WWI US “doughboys” who discovered them had simply wound up in a French-speaking part of Belgium.) The best evidence of this provenance — not concrete, granted: the dish is too old for that — can [...]
“The Irish ‘Dead Sea Scrolls’”
Don’t know if I’d call them that, but unquestionably the find is important. Fragments of an ancient manuscript, possibly more than 1,000 years old, have been uncovered in a bog. The discovery of the Psalter or Book of Psalms in the south Midlands has already been hailed by experts as the greatest find from a [...]
Is the (US) penny doomed?
The question comes up once again, as the one-cent piece now costs more to produce than it’s worth. …The U.S. Mint could lose a mint, or $43.5 million, producing the coin this year, according to at least one expert. …The Mint is also losing a pretty penny on the nickel. The agency, which plans to [...]
Dancing on Olympus
Looks like something a little unusual was going on recently up on the slopes of one of Europe’s highest mountains. Last week, like a thunderbolt from Zeus himself, an unexpectedly large horde of pre-Christian devotees descended on Mount Olympus for the annual Prometheus festival. Many wore white robes although a minority, it is true, came [...]
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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