There are only a few more hours left to enter my ABBA World tickets giveaway! Don’t forget! Updated: Congratulations to Sophie! I’ll put your tickets in the mail as soon as I can!
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Both from The New Yorker – Christopher Walken visits his home from childhood and this terrific poem by Robert Bly ( “Perhaps our life is made of struts/And paper”) This perfect billboard advertising American Psycho ( “My God, it even has a watermark”) Would you like an alternate Facebook profile that is not your face…
One of my favourite Top Gear episodes is their road trip across the bottom of Africa. If you’ve also seen it you might recall the scene where, as the three of them watch the moon rise over the Kalahari Desert, there is this exchange: James May: I know a Philip Larkin poem about the moon….
100 Best First Lines From Novels, as chosen by the editors of the American Book Review. Strategies for overcoming creative block (a very cool looking site, btw). Some great ideas there. Filling in city holes with Lego. Genius! The funniest example I’ve seen of someone getting out of overdue fines from the video store. Is it…
Edited to add: Thanks to my being in a general flurry this week, I forgot that this giveaway goes against my obligations to the BlogHer ads I have on my sidebar, and so I have moved the giveaway to another page where it should have been all along. My apologies to everyone.
Sorry, I didn’t take any more once I got inside. I was planning to, but the time got away.
A friend recently told Adam about this game he’d downloaded for his kids. Then we went and got it too, and I must say it’s pretty cool. It’s called Toybox and it is, like it sounds, this assortment of toys you manouvure with your mouse. The game can be ‘played’ on your desktop or whatever…
Today’s linkage is writing/book related. Well – most of them… And here we go: *Here’s a nice breakdown of Kindle vs iPad vs Touch Book, prompted by yesterday’s announcement of the iPad and the general hysteria that ensued. * Adele taught Surprise! in the classroom over in Japan this month. This has been one of…
Adam works in the CBA building that looms in the background. (I like the star shadows on the road at the bottom – I didn’t see them when I took the photo!) (Yes, this is another iPhone shot. Let’s assume from now on all photos will be taken on that unless I say otherwise!)
I posted off the cheques earlier this week for my charity beneficiaries for 2009, and so now I think it is the time to announce my blog profits charity pledge for 2010: The Australian Red Cross does such important work with their Blood Services that that alone would qualify them for my support – in any…
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