Haydn's Farewell Symphony...

...from the 2009 Vienna New Year's Concert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulzJ4EOLzeY&e

(Backstory for those not familiar with the story. XD)

New Doctor Who...

...to be announced Saturday.

Countdown to wank in 3... 2... 1...

Yuletide again!

The author notes are now live on my story Three Jade Mice, so you can go look and see what elements are real, as in I pulled them from Chinese history or mythology, and which aren't. :)

But I'm copying them here also, so you can read them without putting too much load on the server. The Peking Gazette is one of the TWO NIFTY THINGS I discovered that I couldn't post about without potentially giving away my fandom. :) The other one is below the cut...

(And feel free to comment to let me know someone's actually out there reading. My inbox has been so quiet lately it feels I'm writing in a void...)

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Books read...

...in the past few days.

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir, by Bill Bryson.( Read more... )

Cauldron by Jack McDevitt.( Read more... )

Mushishi volume 6.( Read more... )

Too Many Curses by A. Lee Martinez.( Read more... )

The Princetta by Anne-Laure Bondoux.( Read more... )

The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg.( Read more... )

Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process, by Irene Pepperberg.( Read more... )

Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl by Stacy O'Brien.( Read more... )

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English by John McWhorter.( Read more... )