Lights Out for the Territory

So I came back from Sunderland (where they kept me talking for two solid hours but were kinda sweet about it, and bought a coupla books [notably Phantoms II, which you too can do, just follow the link through...]), and I stopped off at the Lit & Phil to make a tentative pencil arrangement for a launch party for "River of the World" (tentatively Thursday, April 26; pencil it in...), and then I wandered home.

To be welcomed by a chorus of alarms, because the whole street had lost its electricity. Emergency vans were just arriving, but there seemed no point in just sitting around the house waiting for them to fix things; I gave Barry his tea and went to the pub. And from there to an event at the Lit & Phil (which I had assumed would start at seven, but actually started at six - er, whoops...), and then up the hill to home again.

Where everybody else's lights were on, but mine were not. Eek. Happily, there was still a guy in an emergency van, so I tapped on his window and pointed out my darkness. He said he'd phone it through.

Nothing I could do in the dark, so I went out again. And entirely failed to find entertainment, and so ended up home again; and had a bath by candlelight, and then took the portable radio to bed.

Turns out I have no resources in the dark.

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ganked from samarcand:

Your Personality is Very Rare (INFP)

Your personality type is dreamy, romantic, elegant, and expressive. Only about 5% of all people have your personality, including 6% of all women and 4% of all men You are Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, and Perceiving.

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Gimme Shelter...

Hot on the heels of early copies of Bridge of Dreams in paperback and the first edition of River of the World, comes this news from Bloody Brits Press:

"Shelter has just come off press in the US. It will now be shipped to our distributor and then out to the stores so it will probably be two to three more weeks before it hits the book stores but you can tell your fans to start looking for it. We will have it available on our website by the end of the week. That will be the fastest way to get the book."

Yay. I shall be inescapable: Brenchley, Brenchley everywhere.

As I suspected...

...when they tried to impale Milosevic, they did try to do it in situ, without digging up the body first. Damn, I hate sloppy work and gesture politics.