friday quickies

[jlundberg]

Some quickies for your Friday morning:

Three from NPR:

• "Graphic Novel Tells Story of Baghdad Lions," where Brian K. Vaughn (Y: The Last Man) talks to Neal Conan at Talk of the Nation about his new graphic novel The Pride of Baghdad.
• "Earliest New World Writing Discovered," wherein "a heap of debris taken from a quarry in Veracruz, Mexico has yielded a stone block inscribed with what appears to be the oldest writing ever found in the Americas."
• "Young Tuba Player Gets Nod from Phila. Orchestra," wherein Carol Jantsch, at age 21, is the Philadelphia Orchestra's youngest member and the first woman to hold a principal tuba chair in one of the nation's top orchestras. (The story also talks about the tuba being an instrument that more and more women are picking up, and I think this is a wonderful thing.)

From Unclaimed Territory, "Sen. Reid: The Specter bill will NOT be enacted. Period.," wherein the bill sponsored by Arlen Spector to make the NSA's warrantless evesdropping retroactively legal is discussed with Sen. Harry Reid.

Writer, puppeteer and voice actor Mary Robinette Kowal has posted a wonderful ongoing series on reading aloud: Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3, Useful notes on voices, Lesson 4, Lesson 5, and Lesson 6 (via Maggie).

A whole slew of books has just been uploaded to Second Chance Book Adoption (with pictures coming later today). Go check out the selection.