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December 9, 2009

Vacation roundup

I got on a plane yesterday with Lady Ninja and two Ninjlings and am currently stopped over in Toronto before a long drive into the wilds of Owen Sound. So here’s a quick update of a  few stories that I can get to before the baby wakes.

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4 comments on “Vacation roundup”

  1. Nicole says:

    Atwood forgot John Gardner’s On Becoming a Novelist. Necessary read for anyone wanting to, you know, become a novelist (funny how she managed to included her book though). She also forgot money. A big bag of it. Good for the budding and in-full-leaf novelist.

  2. ed says:

    Whatever happened to “a few decks of fags, a two-four, a forty of bourbon and an eight-ball”? Scribbling is not what it used to be.

  3. Mary Soderstrom says:

    Am I the only one who is finding this end-of-the-decade stuff is rather premature? Or is it just that the decades go past faster now, comparatively speaking?

    Mary

  4. DGM says:

    Brantford Marsalis first told this joke about playing jazz, but I think it applies here as well:

    Q. How do you become a millionaire writing fiction?
    A. First, you start off with two million dollars…

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