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The New AuthorTalk video with Nora Roberts is a hoot. It was shot at RWA, if the very familiar hotel room is my gauge. Nice job ladies!

Today, we have assorted music, some of which may get stuck in your head. But it’s a good thing. Maybe.

First, from Sherri, a clip from “America’s Got Idol Talent Dancing with the Ice Truck Drivers” (yet another reality show). The best part, as Sherri says, is when the Hoff gets up and dances.

Thanks to annanickle who sent me this link, we have merry exhortations about your hey nanner nanner:

If you like scrapbooking, this one might give you an optical orgasm:

Thanks to Planned Parenthood of Columbia Willamette for the awesome videos.

What do you get when you cross ballet, Matthew Bourne, incredibly lithe ballet dancers, white underwear, and tongue-so-in-cheek visual puns? You get AWESOME that’s what you get!

Thanks to Sandra Schwab for the link and the quote that provided the title to the entry. For more on Matthew Bourne, his version of Swan Lake and this particular piece, “Spitfire,” this article explains much:

One of Bourne’s earliest pieces, Spitfire, is a dance for four men “modeled on the ballerinas’ pas de quatre-tutu thing,” which caused quite a stir in his homeland. Bourne customed the men not in dance outfits but in varied white underwear. “It was like those catalog ads with men posing very chummy together,” he adds.

Boy, oh boy, do I miss ballet now. 

Robert J. Sawyer gave a marvelous ranting talk at the University of Waterloo about science fiction, it’s origins, and what it meant in terms of social relevance. Evan Steacy set them to visual images, and the three part narration is fascinating, particularly the part about Shelley’s Frankenstein.

All you science fiction romance fans, enjoy.

Thanks to Nathalie Grey for the link.