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Friday, June 29, 2007

Newsbreaks for Friday



Audio version is here.

Thursday, a new collection of memorabilia from the doomed ship Titanic was auctioned at Christie’s. One of the rarest items was a survivor’s handwritten account of the disaster.

[PIX] “It sucked.”

That went for $8,400 per word. I’m clearly in the wrong business.

Other items included postcards—
[PIX] “Sorry if my handwriting’s bad, but the ship is sideways”

—and photographs. of passengers. “Here’s one of me strangling the idiot who was driving the boat.”

The Titanic was on its maiden voyage when it struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912. In one of the worst diasters in maritime history, nearly 1,500 people were killed…and millions more had to endure that horrible song.
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3 comments:

  1. Sam WinnJune 30, 2007 at 4:39 AM

    Am i the only visitor to your website? Anyway, great blogs...huge fan of Barry Trotter!

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  2. MichaelJune 30, 2007 at 11:09 AM

    Thanks, Sam! Some people might consider my readership small, but I like to think of it as "elite."

    Glad you like Barry--have you read Blarnia? People tell me that's their favorite of my parody novels.

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  3. Sam WinnJuly 5, 2007 at 3:13 AM

    Exactly, you don't want to be a media whore like JK Rowling now do you? I'm actually gonna buy Blarnia sometime in the next week.

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