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A request: Please help find a lost thing (or a replacement for it)
Beth’s boss Amanda Palmer lost her jacket in Hamburg while on tour. (And has lost and broken some other things too, and is sad about them generally, but really misses that jacket.) Have you seen it? Or have you seen one just like it that she could get as a replacement? Please help if you [...]
Hey, cool old music!
And a whole lot of it. 3000+ titles recorded from a massive collection of 78 RPM vinyl. This is a wonderful resource.
Star Wars gangsta rap
Oh dear, oh dear. Not safe for those who don’t like the F word and its variants. But visually hilarious. [tags]Star Wars, gangsta, rap[/tags]
Something fun to wake up to: “Zidane il a frappé…”
They’re singing it in the streets of Paris…and nearly everywhere else in France, apparently. A song parodying soccer star Zinedine Zidane’s head butt in the World Cup final has soared to the top of the music charts in France. “Coup de Boule” (“Head-Butt”) pokes fun at Zidane for ramming his head into the chest 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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