Spontaneous Spring Break Link Dump: Go!

13 Apr

One of the great joys of being a professional writer: Spontaneous Spring Break!

DCWYTBMA returns next week. In the meantime, please enjoys these freshly dumped links:

Nick Hornby on the perils of recommending books

The Daily Beast on “Twitterature

The Minnesota Orchestra invites 60 people to play conductor for a day (audio version recommended)

For those of you who are interested in a more artistic take on “world building” please enjoy the City of Work

Because I take requests, #amazonfail (now with updated link to Clay Shirkey’s blog)

Finally, the awesomely bad video “Shine on Me”:

3 Responses to “Spontaneous Spring Break Link Dump: Go!”

  1. bets April 13, 2009 at 3:01 pm #

    No thoughts on #amazonfail?

  2. Maggie April 13, 2009 at 11:35 pm #

    I’m REALLY impressed that there’s so much going on in that video…obviously there was an entire universe(s?) at play there to which the audience is not privy: multiple characters, multiple locations, “fantasy” rules… He’s obviously the Tolkien of songsmiths. Good thing the song explains everything or would have been confused.

  3. Robin S. April 14, 2009 at 8:08 pm #

    Wow- there’s a smorgasbord going on here.

    I would absolutely be exploring if I wasn’t flying to London in less than 48 hours. So I’ll come back and visit these ideas of yours later.

    Hope you’re having a wonderful spontaneous break!

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