Cooking With Pooh: Yummy Tummy Cookie Cutter Treats. Published by Mouse Works in 1995. Target audience: Ages 4-8Yikes. Imagine this in the hands of a young reader who takes the title literally!How did this one get past the editors?Thanks to A Wandering Eye for the lead
Dalai Lama Day
The Tibetan Sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom in 100,000 Verses(Tibetan Collection, Asian Division)The Dalai Lama received the The Congressional Gold Medal today. The award is our nation’s highest civilian honor and was given to the Dalai Lama in recognition of his advocacy for religious harmony, nonviolence and human rights throughout the world.The Dalai Lama also met with President Bush though you won't see any pictures of this event because the Chinese are pissed off and the Bush administration agreed not to release any pictures of the meeting. The Bush Administration also chose not to release a formal statement on...
The Real World of an Aspiring Horror Novelist
Jose Luis Calva, An aspiring horror novelist, was arrested in Mexico City after police came to his house to investigate the disappearance of his girlfriend and found her "torso in his closet, a leg in the refrigerator and bones in a cereal box."Near the body parts police found a draft of his novel "Cannibalistic Instincts."Though Calva denies eating any of his victims he did admit to boiling his girlfriend's flesh.Calva is now suspected in a couple of other "mutilation killings."CNN story Writer suspect in dismembering girlfriendThanks to bookshelves of doom for the lead
Police on the Lookout for Four Mini-Bookshops
Novel Idea's Mini-BookshopFour Mini-Bookshop vending machines were stolen last month in Essex and the police are stumped."This is rather a strange theft. We have very few leads which is why we are looking for any information from witnesses or anyone who has since seen the trailer." says Elaine Crow of the Essex Police Department.No word yet on what books were in the machine.
Where He Called From: Raymond Carver’s Landscape
I am not sure what's in the water of these little towns on the Olympic Peninsula near Seattle but genius sure gets cultivated. The small town of Aberdeen on the south end of the peninsula was where Kurt Cobain was born and raised. His band Nirvana turned the music industry upside down. Raymond Carver's life in Port Angeles , on the north end of the peninsula, provided the fodder for his short stories which revolutionized the genre. Granted the lives of both these men were packed with pain and suffering but one cannot discount the landscape as an influence.Bill Booth...