Ways to spend your Tuesday

[eimarra]

(Or Wednesday, if you subscribe to the blog by e-mail.) I’m sitting here, waiting for proofreading to arrive. I do have two short stories and a cover letter I’m supposed to be working on, and I’ll get to them, I truly will. Meanwhile, some amusements for you:

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Oscar statues, designed to look reminiscent of the actual Best Movie for each year. Read about it here (which doesn’t say much more than I do), or just click through to the large poster.

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Del Rey and Spectra are having a Cage Match of characters from books, everyone from Inigo Montoya to Gandalf to the Thing. Check out the bracket, then be sure to vote.

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I also watched a TED talk yesterday, Amanda Palmer on the art of asking. Well worth the 13+ minutes to see it.

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And, as long as I’ve mentioned one musician, I might as well mention another. I first discovered John Anealio through the I Should Be Writing podcast. You can download a lot of his music for free, although he’s also recently experimenting with letting people pay what they want. Here’s a sample, a song about Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from near-Earth orbit last year.

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So what are you doing today besides actual work?

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