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Two unrelated items to close off:<\/p>\nWell, I am home from my travels, but the illness that kept my poor Auntie coughing throughout our trip has finally found its virile, unpleasant way into my lungs and sinuses. I am sick. Hoping to be better in a day or two, so that I can visit folks that I’ve been missing and show my loot around. Am spending today with my feet up, drinking infinite cups of tea, hot lemon and scotch, and watching the last of Season 2 Doctor Who (almost done ‘Doomsday’). <\/p>\n
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1) With endless thanks to Brett for pointing me in the direction of being a pre-publication book reviewer for Harper Collins, I am ecstatic to announce that I have in my hot little hands an advance copy of the new Michael Chabon book, ‘The Yiddish Policeman’s Union’<\/a>, due to be available at your local bookstore as of May 1st.<\/p>\n As usual, Chabon is writing directly up my alley of weird and wonderful personal fetishes. Having already covered the ground of comic books, hothouses, Sherlock Holmes, bees and escape artists, he is now drilling ever closer to the secret heart of my weird inner life by writing an unusual noir thriller set in Alaska, involving chess. Seriously, I’ll take ten to one odds that his next book involves pinatas and a few cheerleaders. Will give you the skinny on how I like this book over the next few weeks, before submitting my formal review to the publisher. So far, the cover art is fantastic (don’t be fooled – I thought it was Chris Ware, but it’s not).<\/p>\n 2) At the request of On the team of Evil XI we have: Pot, Lucifer, Calgula, Ripper (as in Jack), Impaler (as in Vlad the), Hitler, Macbeth (as in Lady), Hyde, Klebb (as in Rosa), Amin, Catcher (as in the Child). Playing for Good XI we have: Claus (as in Santa), More (as in Sir Thomas), Moore (as in Bobby), Gordon (as in Flash), Robin (as in Christopher), God, Assisi, Jekyll, Poppins, Teresa, M.K. Gandhi.<\/p>\n Well, I am home from my travels, but the illness that kept my poor Auntie coughing throughout our trip has finally found its virile, unpleasant way into my lungs and sinuses. I am sick. Hoping to be better in a day or two, so that I can visit folks that I’ve been missing and show […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/www.notcot.com\/images\/gvsemain.jpg\")
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