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At Dublin Zoo: Jorong the Orangutan and the Moorhen Chick
From the Irish Times: “The YouTube clip shows a male Bornean orang-utan, named Jorong, careening over rocks at the edge of his enclosure where an injured moorhen chick flaps about in a pond. The ape spends a number of minutes patiently coaxing the duckling ashore with a leaf before gently lifting it onto grass behind [...]
Parousia delay (re-re-redux…)
I was going through Twitter this morning on the phone before getting out of bed, and suddenly started wondering what all the “rapture” stuff I was seeing was about. Normally when at home I don’t use US-based news sources much, finding them way too limited — mostly because of a tendency of such sources to ignore [...]
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 [...]
CSI Ankh-Morpork
Sort of. Maybe. I don’t care: I’m really excited about this. With reason, I think. Sir Terry Pratchett and Rod Brown, Managing Director of Prime Focus Productions, announce that they have come to an agreement for the unprecedented and exclusive worldwide television rights to create brand new storylines for the iconic characters of Pratchett’s phenomenally [...]
A Chicken of Benghazi
Just one of those strange moments. Watching Sky News as the situation in Libya continues to unfold. Some video from this morning, from outside Benghazi, runs. A bright sunny day. Something explodes in the background, sending up a black-streaked fireball. People run in various directions. Small-arms fire rattles. In the far background, a burning truck [...]
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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