I’m off to Chicago to go see Richard Cheese on Saturday night. In the unlikely event that anyone in the readership is interested in seeing the show and will be in Chicago, I have a few extra tickets. Let me know at tgirsch-at-gmail-dot-com.
P.S. The non-flash version of the web site is hilarious.
Cross-posted at SayUncle.
I don’t have any profound comments about her place in literature or her works. I just know that they were very good and brought me a great deal of pleasure in my childhood. We should all do so well.
Royalty was like dandelions. No matter how many heads you chopped off, the roots were still there underground, waiting to spring up again.
It seemed to be a chronic disease. It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: "Kings. What a good idea." Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.
-- Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
