I came across this article on You Thought We Wouldn’t Notice last and thought it was interesting enough to post about.

Do you remember the children’s book Nate the Great? Me neither. But it was a book published back in 1972 about a boy detective who solves murders petty crimes. In the book series this is this girl who goes by Rosamond who can only be described as “strange”.

See? They call her strange. Anyway, if you’ve been in Hot Topic recently (you can admit it, I wont think less of you), you may have noticed this girl.

Her name is Emily and she is “strange” as well. Emily was the poster child for skateboards in the early 90′s and have since become a pop culture icon with her very own book series.

Notice anything different? Me neither aside from a few words. YTWWN has more detailed information about this possible copyright infringement.

I don’t know who Annie Dillard is. Apparently, she’s a Pulitzer Prize-winning author if Wikipedia is reliable. Her name was written down in my moleskin on my list of books and authors that I should check out. There was no particular book assigned next to her name so while I was in Powell’s Book I was forced to browse through a couple of her books. In the end, I didn’t pick up any of her books this time around. None of them struck me as something I needed to read immediately. Anyway, one of my favorite things about buying used books at Powell’s is that people will occasionally leave bookmarks in their old books. Sometimes, these bookmarks are notes. One of Annie Dillard’s books had this note in it (click on it for a larger image):

The author of this note didn’t enjoy the book it seems. If anyone has any incite in to Annie Dillard or how Connecticut is different from North Carolina, feel free to share.

NaNoWriMo has ended. Where did I end up? Well, a meager 19,617 words. I dropped the ball the second week in and couldn’t muster up the motivation to continue. Still, for my first attempt I am proud of myself. I will continue to work on the story and then revise it in hopes of making it readable. I left off with my main characters on the verge of an epic sword fight between a businessman and a pirate while another was experimenting with writing pirate themed erotica. Good times to be had.

Next year I vow to do better.