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The Battle of the Invisible Friends (aka “Supreme Being Smackdown”)
Can things get any dumber? Don’t answer that question. “There are millions of people around this world praying to their God – whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that [McCain's] opponent wins for a variety of reasons,” Pastor Arnold Conrad said. “And, Lord, I pray that you would guard your own reputation, because they’re going [...]
Moneychangers in the temple (shock! horror!)
Oh dear. Yesterday the Archbishops of Canterbury and York condemned London-based brokers who indulged in short selling as “bank robbers and asset strippers” and accused them of “generating unimaginable wealth … by equally unimaginable levels of fiction”. But now it turns out that the Church of England has been quite willing to sell short and [...]
To Dover, and beyond!!
Well, not too far beyond, we hope. I’ll sure be watching this on the lunchtime news… (ETA: Postponed to Sept. 26 due to cloud / bad weather in France.)
JKR vs. RDR: decision’s in: Rowling wins
Finally… After four months of deliberating, Judge Robert Patterson has ruled that the H.P. Lexicon infringes J.K. Rowling’s copyright in the Harry Potter series. The decision proper is here (.PDF file). Briefly: yay. Tags: J.+K., JK, J.K., Rowling, RDR, Books, Judge, Robert+Patterson, Harry+Potter, Lexicon
Wallace and Gromit get a makeover
By Harvey Nichols, yet. Tags: Wallace, Gromit, makeover, Harvey+Nichols, Harvey+Nicks, clothes, fashion, Lady+Campanula, Tottington
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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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