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A Look At The Week That Was
Alas, no This Week's Bits today. In lieu of our prized feature I tipped my head to our American listeners and played all eighteen minutes of Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie.
It's apparently a tradition on some radio stations in the US to play the song in it's entirety on Thanksgiving. The write up on wikipedia has a great little summary of the song and the story that inspired it. And have a listen if you missed it.
Neil Gaiman: Modern Day Morpheus
Way back in the day two comic books made an impression on the young Barbosa's mind; the first was Animal Man by Grant Morrison and the second was The Sandman by Neil Gaiman.
The Sandman consistently appears in lists of the best comic series of the twentieth century and was, at it's core, a long story about stories and what stories can do to those living in the real world. Since that series wrapped up ten years ago Gaiman has become an extremely popular fantasy author.
American Gods, published in 2001, told the tale of the old world gods (such as Odin) starting a war with the new gods of technology. It was also a rambling novel of a search for the real America.
Neil's latest book is The Graveyard Book. It's strictly for kids (although that didn't stop me enjoying it) and concerns an orphaned child who is brought by by ghosts and is given The Freedom of the Graveyard.
P.S. If you're like me and would love to see Neil come to New Zealand, contact the organisers of the Readers And Writers Festival and beg them to bring Neil over for next year's festival.
Further Reading
Neil's consistently updated website and blog.
A good write up of Gaiman in film, scroll to the end and you'll find a further explanation of what John Peters had in store for The Sandman. Shudder.
Listen to Audio
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Sports and the Man Who Blogs It.
Hadyn Green blogs for the Public Address website about sport. He is also part of the Dropkicks, a group of miscreants who produce a weekly podcast about rugby. It was one of the first, if not the first, podcast in the southern hemisphere about the merry game.
After fighting with a towing company earlier in the morning Hadyn graciously agreed to come on the show and discuss his highlights of the sporting year.
Further reading
The Dropkicks website
Hadyn's blog, Field Theory, on Public Address.