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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

anansi cover

Over at Amazon they have the forthcoming US mass market paperback cover of Anansi Boys up, from which I have stolen this:

(But it's not posting. Damn.)

So while I try and sort that out, here is a very important item of world news, courtesy of Scaryduck.


Five people have been detained in China for running striptease send-offs at
funerals, state media say.
The once-common events are held to boost the
number of mourners, as large crowds are seen as a mark of honour.
But the
arrests, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, could signal the end of the rural
tradition.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5280312.stm for the full story.

Right. What if I try renaming the file...?

Oh good. So. The mass market US paperback edition of Anansi Boys will look a lot like this: