Today's Fresh Blogs...

• As Dr Johnson said...

  Published: August 8, 2007, 10:13 am

  Tags: More Stardust Mostly, Honey, Radio, Stardust, Coraline, Labels, Stardust Movies, John Scalzi, One Of Those Posts That Covers Lots Of Things I Can T Be Bothered To Label

  I was meant to be on NPR's TALK OF THE NATION tomorrow. But their schedules have shifted and I'll be on the radio this afternoon -- Wednesday the 8th of August. I think that http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=5is their website. I'll be on towards the end of the second hour (the hour that some stations don't get).John Scalzi

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• One of those long posts that goes all over the place...

  Published: July 24, 2007, 6:37 pm

  Tags: Neverwear Tee Shirts, More Stardust Mostly, Beowulf, Shoes

  Sooner or later, Stardust will have come out, and no-one will be interviewing me about it, and I won't be linking to things about it, and I'll have a life back again, and this won't be the *Stardust movie blog guest starring Me and the San Diego Comic-Con*. But that's what it seems to be tending to turn into right now, for which I apologise.There

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• some of the things I'll miss

  Published: August 16, 2007, 4:16 pm

  Tags: More Stardust Mostly, Wolves In The Walls, Bayeux Tapestry, News That Isn T, Dead Fish, Missing The Tomatoes

  Dear Neil,I thought you might be interested to know that tickets for The Wolves in the Walls are now available to the general public. The show runs from October 5 to October 21 at the family-oriented New Victory Theater in NYC.The Direct link: http://www.newvictory.org/show.m?showID=1028522The Make-them-work-for-it link:

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• Ashley Judd Will Be Depressed in 'Helen'

  Published: September 5, 2007, 9:02 am

  Tags: Ashley Judd, Ashleyjudd, Bug, Christian Slater, Christianslater, Cinematical, Come Early Morning, Comeearlymorning, Crossing Over, Crossingover, De Lovely, Film, Helen, Kuffs, Mostly Martha, Mostlymartha, Movies, Sandra Nettelbeck, Sandranettelbeck, Sergeant Pepper, Sergeant

  Filed under: Drama, Casting, Deals, Scripts & ScreenwritingHaving finished the immigration drama Crossing Over, which will come out this December in time for the last-minute Oscar push, Ashley Judd is getting ready to get depressed for her next film. Variety has reported that the actress is going to star in a drama called Helen, which will

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• How Coffee Effects Our Cholesterol Levels

  Published: October 9, 2007, 8:40 pm

  Tags: Cholesterol, Coffee, Disease, Doing, Effects, Espresso, French, Health, Higher, Interesting, Levels, Lower, Mostly, Referring, Research, Risk, Seems, Shown, Things, Tips, Unfiltered

  "There has been a lot of talk recently about how coffee seems to raise our cholesterol levels. read more

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• U.S. Plan for Airline Security Meets Resistance in Canada

  Published: October 14, 2007, 12:56 am

  Tags: Canada, Ottawa, Airline, American, Annual, Appears, Assuage, Balking, Canadian, Caribbean, Concern, Costly, Cuba, Department, Exodus, Flying, Homeland, Information, Involve, Laws, Measures, Meets, Mexico, Mostly, Odds, Passengers, Politics, Privacy, Proposal, Rejection, Resistance, Sec

  "OTTAWA, Oct. read more

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• Former Gun Lobbyist Says NRA Aims Mostly for Money

  Published: October 30, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Former, Gun, Lobbyist, Says, Nra, Aims, Mostly, For, Money, National Rifle Association, American Shooting Sports Council, California, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Washington Dc, Burson Marsteller Ltd, Dittus Communications, Al Gore, Andrew Arulanandam, George H W Bush, James Ja

  R ichard Feldman is a rarity -- a former gun lobbyist who is publicly taking a shot at the National Rifle Association.

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• Toronto: Loud support for black school

  Published: November 13, 2007, 10:19 am

  Tags: Toronto, Afrocentric, Agrees, Alternative, Argued, Audience, Being, Callender, Community, Connelly, Crammmed, Culture, Dari, Debate, Director, District, Favour, Findings, Gerry, Heights, Issue, January, Local, Mcanuff, Meade, Meetings, Mostly, Neville, Northview, Opinions, People, Pres

  OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor I am sure I will get a lot of flak on this one, including a fitting for a White Pointy Hat, complete with flowing white robes. read more

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• Cinematical Seven: Films for Foodies

  Published: November 23, 2007, 3:02 pm

  Tags: All In This Tea, Allinthistea, Bella Martha, Bellamartha, Chocolat, Eat Drink Man Woman, Eatdrinkmanwoman, Food Films, Foodfilms, Foodie Films, Foodiefilms, Holidash, Holidays2007, Mostly Martha, Mostlymartha, Ratatouille, Sideways, Waitress

  Filed under: Cinematical Seven, ListsWhen epicurean delights hit the big screen, magic fills the air. The color is often magnified, and there's always a shining gleam in the eye. But you don't need faerie dust and magical spells to make this happen -- it's all within the food -- the hard, yet giving crunch of a piece of chocolate, the melting

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• Foodie films from Cinematical

  Published: November 27, 2007, 9:17 am

  Tags: Babette S Feast, Cinematical, Food Movies, Foodie Films, Mostly Martha, No Reservations, Tampopo, Tea

  Filed under: Television/Film, On the BlogsLast week, someone brought up the movie Babette's Feast in conversation. I was immediately swept back to the first time I saw it. I was 12 or 13 and it was a Saturday night. My mom had heard good things about it and so checked it out from the local library. We settled down on the couch in the family

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• winter butterflies

  Published: December 20, 2007, 7:41 am

  Tags: Beowulf, Coughing, Lemons, In Hich Our Author Mostly Displays His Ignorance

  I don't know where the butterflies come from. It's a big empty house, and it's winter. There aren't any flowers or greenery inside the house. Outside the trees are bare. The doors and windows are all closed. But every day or so there's another butterfly, fluttering through the house like a flower, sitting by the windows or fluttering crookedly

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• The Best of 2007

  Published: December 31, 2007, 11:39 pm

  Tags: Mostly Red On Mostly Red

  ALBANY, N.Y Blogging every day, or the majority of days in a year, produces an incredible amount of text, a virtual avalanche of verbosity. This year I wrote 180 entries, each with about 600 words (things got longer as the year went on). After mashing on a few buttons on the Windows Calculator application, I can claim to have written 108,000

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• 20 Palestinians, Mostly Fighters, Killed in Israeli Raids

  Published: January 16, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Palestinians, Mostly, Fighters, Killed, Israeli, Raids, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, George W Bush, West Bank, Mahmoud Abbas, Mahmoud Zahar, Tzipi Livni, Ahmed Qurei, Gaza City, Jerusalem, Mark Regev, Noa Meir, Sderot, Taher Nunu, Fatah Organization, Israeli Defense Forces

  JERUSALEM, Jan. 15 -- Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters battled in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, leaving 20 Palestinians dead, a health official said, including a son of a senior leader of Hamas, the armed Islamic movement that controls the territory.

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• small news things

  Published: February 20, 2008, 10:54 pm

  Tags: More Stardust Mostly, Black Hole, Saturn Awards, The Graveyard Book

  The Graveyard Book is so close to being finished I can taste it. All the writing's been done and now it's a matter of typing it and reading it and fixing it. (Interestingly, and rather to my surprise, The Graveyard Book looks like it's going to come in at about 67,000 words. Which is a nice meaty read, and about 12,000 words longer than

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• Crack Offenders Set for Release Mostly Nonviolent, Study Says

  Published: February 22, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Crack, Offenders, Set, For, Release, Mostly, Nonviolent, Study, Says, Michael Mukasey, U S Sentencing Commission, Maxine Waters, Virginia, Capitol Hill, Michael S Nachmanoff, James Sensenbrenner, Lamar Smith, Robert C Scott, U S Department Of Justice, U S House Committee On

  Most of the more than 1,500 crack cocaine offenders who are immediately eligible to petition courts to be released from federal prisons under new guidelines issued by the U.S. Sentencing Commission are small-time dealers or addicts who are not career criminals and whose charges did not involve vi...

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