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I’m gearing up for an online chat with the troops from the Young Wizards website’s discussion forum<\/a> this evening (7 PM EST if you feel like turning up: you’re going to have to register for the forums first, though, so the sysadmin can send you a username and password. Whatever…) …and so have kicked off work early and have been spending the evening, for the refreshment of my soul, cruising other people’s blogs. (Not without having this process interrupted occasionally by low-yield nuclear kittens.)<\/p>\n

…but have run into a happy series of finds which constitute Blog Serendipity. Have you ever had this happen? Where the things you hit when “randomly” using NextBlog (or an equivalent) nonetheless are things exactly<\/em> suited to your mood, things that make you laugh till you cry, or else things that are not just useful to you, but things you needed to know? I’ve had this happen in libraries often enough: I would go there to do research, but also (as a matter of duty, something I do at intervals) to read something which is not<\/em> something I think I need, something which at first sight seems like it should bore me to tears — but which turns out (usually within no more than a matter of days or weeks) to have been “put into my hands” by…let’s smile for a moment and call Her “A kindly Providence”.<\/p>\n

Had a big dose of that tonight. In some order or other:<\/p>\n

  • The goofiest Illustrated Beowulf<\/a> you’re likely to see any time soon. Thank you, BoingBoing!<\/a><\/li>\n
  • A story from the UK Telegraph<\/em> concerning a writer I know, and my UK literary agent.<\/a> Thank you, Bookslut!<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Quickbeam and Bombadil (aka MC First and Fatherless) as the Lords of the Rhymes: gangsta rap, Tolkien-style.<\/a> Thank you, DrikoLand!<\/a> (As they would say in Bored of the Rings<\/em>, “There’s a song, too.”)<\/li>\n
  • Dog tags for when you’re abducted by aliens.<\/a> (I forget where I found this…but Thank You…)<\/li>\n
  • and (drum roll) … The best 404 page I’ve seen in lo, this long while.<\/a> (Thank you, James Lileks!<\/a>)<\/li>\n

    How super it is to be able to meet all these people (at the electronic remove) and get (however far) into their heads.<\/p>\n

    …O Net, I cannot get thee close enough. Or words to that effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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