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rattlesnakeroot

Mid-Week Linkage ~ Blogorific

Feb 16, 2010 23:05

Just a heap o' links while I'm taking a break from watching the Olympics.

And speaking of the Olympics: Have you noticed all the glitches and strange problems they are having? Not just the extremely sad death on the Luge, but just the strange way things are going?

Tonight on the NBC news they had a story about how people want their picture taken ( Read more... )

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Comments 5

anonymous February 17 2010, 13:08:14 UTC

A cryptozoology museum in Portland, Maine? I am so going to this!

megsmithwriter February 17 2010, 13:09:38 UTC

It's not 'Anonymous,' it's me, writing in the time of B.C. -- before coffee.

rattlesnakeroot February 18 2010, 01:07:45 UTC

Oh you should go - Loren has so many strange things on display and they have a gift shop, too. :) Sadly, I'm really far away from Maine.

exhpfan February 17 2010, 22:37:16 UTC

I would have bet my house that your mid-week linkage would have included this story:http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-17/harry-potter-author-named-defendant-in-u-k-plagiarism-lawsuit.html... )

rattlesnakeroot February 18 2010, 00:40:45 UTC

Whoa ~ thanks for the link! I'm glad you didn't bet your house, haha. I've been offline alot yesterday and today because my son had a snow day and I had other stuff to do, so I didn't see the story.

This warrants it's own post, and I'll link back to my previous "Willy the Wizard" post. It's a strange case and probably without merit, but it's worth talking about. I think the story goes that the Willy manuscript was sitting around at the Christopher Little Agency around the time that JKR was signing up with them. So it's the timeline that gives them some ammunition to say she might have copied names or ideas from it. I'll have to read up on that to be sure of the details.