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More A Team Updates

2009-09-17T13:49:00.003+10:00

More news on the latest incarnation of the A Team movie. The cast has just about been finalised now:

Liam Neeson as Hannibal
Bradley Cooper as Face
'Rampage' Jackson as BA Baracus
And, finally, now Sharlto Copley is apparently in talks to play Howling Mad Murdoch

The team is on the verge of being complete. Sure, they're no Clooney, Silverstone, Savage or Reeves, but they'll do.

The article linked to above also suggests my good friend Jessica Biel is playing the army general in pursuit of the team (for the 'crimes they did not commit', naturally) and, in this reimagination, this may correspond to the original character of Amy from the television series.

Oooh, I love it when a plan comes together.

Kitty Wittgenstein and the Improbable Serendipity Engine eBook

2009-09-07T11:05:00.003+10:00

Okay. Free eBook available here. This first one is the short story Kitty Wittgenstein and the Improbable Serendipity Engine, in which I do battle with a nefarious foe, rudely tampering with the laws of probability themselves.

Available in these formats:

Choose your poison. Something in there should work for you. The story is free to share, but please don't go changing the text and, if you can, let people know where it came from.

Ta muchly.

Star Wars Uncut!

2009-08-28T11:32:00.003+10:00

If you're a Star Wars fun, this is possibly the coolest thing ever. If you're not, this is possibly the geekiest thing ever.

Star Wars Uncut - participants claim a 15 second snippet of the original film (ie, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, refilm it using their own video cameras, actors, props, etc. Then re-upload it to the site. Once all the 15 second snippets are done, they'll be merged together and voila! An all-new version of the movie.

Sure, you could go buy the DVD, but isn't this a lot more time-consuming and geekily social? Of course, it is. As I write this, there are 314 snippets remaining. So get a-claimin' if you want to be involved.

eBook Formats

2009-08-18T10:12:00.003+10:00

Liebke's been looking into eBook formats lately, trying to work out ways to give away my hard-earned adventures. And, my word, aren't there a lot of different formats out there?

Still, here's what he thinks he's committed to:

Plain text
Rich text
Microsoft Word
PDF
HTML
Amazon Kindle
eReader
Mobipocket
PalmDoc

That should be enough, surely? Expect to see all my previous adventures, plus a new one, roll out in all those formats over the coming weeks.

That's all (not much of a post, was it?).

On Sale Now!

2009-08-06T09:24:00.003+10:00

Now on sale at all good newsagencies, comic book stores and early learning centres:

(click to enlarge, obviously)

Blog Posts I Enjoyed... The DM of the Rings

2009-07-27T11:46:00.003+10:00

Here's one for the RPG freaks. (That's 'role-playing game' for you non-RPG freaks)

We all know that when Gary Gygax created (or 'co-created' according to Wikipedia. Sorry about that, Dave Arneson) Dungeons and Dragons™ he based much of the fantasy universe in which it was set on Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Possibly because the name 'Gygax' sounds like deliciously Tolkienesque.

So the obvious question this raises is: what would a D&D™ campaign look like if it tried to emulate the aforementioned trilogy?

The brilliant Shamus Young has the answer.

Blog Posts I Enjoyed... The Dangers of To-Do Lists

2009-07-16T11:18:00.002+10:00

Topherchris pinpoints a dangerous flaw in the use of to-do lists:

"... am I risking a temporal paradox that could potentially destroy the entire universe if the first item on my list is “Do all items on this list” and then I check it?"

David Allen? Your thoughts please?

YouTube Can Be Fun... Monty Python v Star Wars

2009-07-04T17:18:00.002+10:00

All right, rumours are afoot that a new tale (Kitty Wittgenstein and the Irredeemable Heroine Addicts) is imminent. But, considering the source, one shouldn't hold one's breath.

During the meanwhile, here's Monty Python v Star Wars. Enjoy.

A Crack Commando Unit

2009-06-15T10:01:00.004+10:00

More A Team movie news updates. We all know why the original attempts to make this movie were scuttled (oh, lycanthropy, have you ever scuttled a more promising movie project?)

But the latest news on the A Team movie is that Liam Neeson is in line to play the George Peppard role.

"Master Hannibal. What are midichlorians?"

If Only I'd Been Written By... Douglas Hofstadter

2009-06-13T14:21:00.002+10:00

Another look at how my life would be different if only I'd had a different author. This time around, Mr Douglas Hofstadter.

According to Wikipedia,

Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945 in New York, New York) is an American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, thinking and creativity. He is best known for Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, first published in 1979, for which he was awarded the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction.

Of course, this kind of counterfactual translation from one author to another would be perfectly up Mr Hofstadter's literary alley, as even the most casual reader of his works would have noticed.

Hofstadter also invented Hofstadter's Law, which states:

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

Liebke should probably take Hofstadter's Law into account when he writes my novels.

Of course, if I'd been written by Douglas Hofstadter, here's what would happen:

I'd be non-fictional. Or, at the very worst, a fictional character in a non-fictional book. So that's a step up.
I'd be involved in actual matters philosophical. Y'know, as opposed to bizarre adventures about werewolves invading the Oscars or conspiracies of lefthanders or whatnot. People would probably be far less likely to try to kill me if Hofstadter wrote me.
The puns would be a lot better.

YouTube Can Be Fun... Bonnie Tyler Interpreted Literally

2009-06-05T09:40:00.002+10:00

Liebke once claimed (presumably in jest, although with him one can never be sure) in a 'review' of Tal Bachman's She's So High that he hoped to one day

"... see the scourge of metaphor completely removed from all art."

Here's a glimpse into such a world - the literal version of Bonnie Tyler's music video for Total Eclipse of the Heart:

Funnier than I'd have thought. Maybe Liebke's onto something, as unlikely as that might seem

Nine Hundred And Ninety-Six Short

2009-05-30T12:12:00.005+10:00

Y'know, it is often said that a picture is worth a thousand words. This cliche once inspired the following observation from Liebke in a novel that (shamefully) failed to feature me:

"By my reckoning, if a picture paints a thousand words, then we could probably replace most art galleries with a very small set of books in the corner. Which would free up a lot of space that I could rent out at inflated prices. You know, due to their proximity to great works of art."

All somewhat droll and amusing, I suppose, if you like that kind of thing.

But here's a picture that, rather than a thousand words, warrants only four (two of which are hyphenated): "Pillow-fighting, bikini-wearing Princess Leias"

(image from Eloketh's flickr page, click image for full size)

I, for one, am sufficiently dumbstruck by the image that the remaining 996 words totally elude me. Feel free to help me out.

Blog Posts I Enjoyed... Time Travel via Electronic Literature

2009-05-18T11:20:00.003+10:00

Okay. If you've been paying any kind of attention to this site over the past year or so, you know I've just had a time-travel based kind of adventure. Not that I actually travelled through time (apart from the tedious 1 hr/hr standard forward rate), but there was certainly enough time stream manipulation and reality modification to qualify.

If, for some reason, you're looking to have a similar kind of adventure, then I heartily recommend this 2007 post on Writer Response Theory as a starting point. The post discusses Time Travel via Electronic Literature and links through to a number of time travel literary hypertexts and interactive fiction. Go visit. Have your own adventure. I'll be here when you get back. We'll bond.

KW 2 Commentary - Chapter Twelve

2009-05-09T12:15:00.002+10:00

Chapter Twelve - the final chapter - was written in a mad frenzy during the last week of December, 2008. I just scraped it in, penning the final section on the afternoon of New Year's Eve. Luckily, by this stage, it was just a matter of working through the checklist of answers until we got to the end. The only real problem was solving everything in the space remaining. Despite a wordier-than-I'd-like final bit, I just about managed it.

The only new thing I came up with as I wrote this chapter was the idea that The Man In The Hat could be a mutated Platypus Man. Which would explain why KW didn't recognise him until after their little chronodip.

And, this quote:

“I think you’ll find that, even if things are confusing, happening as they did over varying timelines with varying histories and various states of handedness, it all makes sense if you think about it hard enough.”

was pretty much my way of saying, I don't have time or the exposition-inclination to spell out every little step over multiple different timelines, but, heck, if it doesn't quite all add up, it's gone awfully close, hasn't it?

Of course, there were other ramifications of KW's little dip in the chronopool. I'll get to them in future stories.

All in all, I was reasonably happy with the way the sequel turned out. In true sequel fashion, I'm not sure it quite matched the first story. It was certainly more sci-fi heavy, which is perhaps not to the taste of some of the reader who enjoyed the simpler adventure of the first story. But there were lots of good ideas in there (and maybe a few that didn't quite work). If nothing else, writing the sequel taught me something about, well, how hard it is to write decent sequels.

Probably not going to stop me from going for a trilogy, however.

REWRITE NOTES

Are you mad, it's over! No more rewrites. It is what it is.

KW 2 Commentary - Chapter Eleven

2009-05-07T13:48:00.002+10:00

Chapter Eleven was written during the first three weeks of December 2008, as I scrambled to get the story done by my self-imposed end of 2008 deadline. The writing had grown easier by this point. Most of the mysteries now had solutions and most of the plot ideas were now converging. It was just a matter of making sure everything was explained before the end of the book.

The major ideas introduced in this penultimate chapter were the idea of Jason Bateman being the latest Sinister One and that this role tended to fluctuate as KW messed with the timelines. I also introduced the Morpheous Protocol as their way of getting around KW's interference (although, of course, the introduction of the sleeping left-handed people-computer turned out to be KW's way of ultimately defeating them - oh, irony, what a pestilent bedfellow you can be) and, in the final paragraph of the chapter, set up KW as the new Sinister Two.

Of course, the only way that I could justify KW being able to stop an omniscient foe was for her to be an exception to the omniscience - their blind spot. Fortunately, that had been explained many times throughout the plot already.

Which left me the final chapter to explain why she was a blind spot.

REWRITE NOTES

No major rewrites - just the usual tidying and speeding

KW 2 Commentary - Chapter Ten

2009-05-04T09:14:00.003+10:00

Chapter Ten was written during November, 2008 as I upped the pace to try and get the whole thing done before the end of the year.

At this stage, the path to the finish was becoming clearer. I still had a handful of outstanding questions (as the following notes from the time indicate), but pretty much everything was coming together.

Outstanding Questions
Why is Kitty immune to the virus? Because she went into the time pool with Derek and they shared the right-hand left-hand
Why is Kitty a time anomaly?
Why is Derek leader of the Dexters? Derek goes into the time-pool with her?!
The man in the hat?
Why did Sinister Two want to kill her?

Around about this stage, I'd become concerned about my 'polar bears are left-handed' cure to the virus. It was sort of a solution, but I wasn't sure if it was the most logical one. And then, one afternoon while puzzling over this, it occurred to me that a far neater solution was to turn everybody into left-handers. It eliminated the lycanthropy thing from play. And, logically, if everybody was left-handed, the whole basis for the Southpaw Society was eliminated. It seemed neat enough to work.

REWRITE NOTES

Basic tweaks and typo-correction. Also eliminated excess words as usual
No other major plot changes were necessary. By this point, as the conclusion loomed large, I pretty much knew where I was going and how to get the plot there. So I got it more or less right the first time

KW 2 Commentary - Chapter Nine

2009-04-30T11:04:00.002+10:00

Chapter Nine was written during October, 2008. There's nothing particularly new and/or exciting and/or innovative about this chapter. It's all pretty simple, really. KW goes into the Zambezi river and heads over the Victoria Falls. Having seen the Victoria Falls twice in person myself, this was always going to be a scene in the book.

Just to make things a little more challenging, I gave her Alf and Beryl to rescue (Alf and Beryl are named after my Great-Aunt and Great-Uncle).

And that's pretty much it. The only other note for the chapter is that Alf and Beryl had to ultimately escape and disappear. Otherwise, the Dexters would interrogate them for SSS info. And I really needed KW to stay the centre of attention on that front. Because this was where I was going to unveil my Jon Stewart/Jerry Seinfeld fake-out.

I toyed with the idea of having a longer delay between sending the Dexters after Jon Stewart and revealing KW was after Jerry Seinfeld. But, ultimately, I went with the version here.

Oh, and I love that Bruce is just lying about the awesome kick-ass uber-chip in his head.

My notes for the final three chapters:

10. Let’s get him! They head off. KW and Bruce deviate. KW questions Bruce. Has he revealed the cure? No. He doesn’t like the SSS but he doesn’t want all lefties to die. Because while everybody’s after JS, she has other plans. She contacts Stiller to tell him where to go to protect Jon Stewart.

11. We’re going to find Seinfeld (she knows that the real S2 can’t be captured – because he would have sent a message back in time. Etc.) They have to keep it secret.

12. Final fight. Virus cure. Everything else.

Gotta love that Chapter Twelve detail.

REWRITE NOTES

The usual typo-check and speed-up of the pace
On the rewrite I again considered hiding the Seinfeld revelation until later and, again, concluded that it might be a fake-out too far

YouTube Can Be Fun... Bohemian Rhapsody Performed By Computers

2009-04-27T09:57:00.002+10:00

Can a robot Freddie Mercury be far away? (Cripes. Shouldn't have said that - you just know that Liebke's going to send me into battle with robot versions of dead rock gods next.)

KW 2 Commentary - Chapter Eight

2009-04-19T14:38:00.003+10:00

Chapter Eight was written mostly during September and early October, 2008 in a bold attempt to get two chapters ahead of what was being published at the site. This didn't work as well as I'd hoped, given my renowned slackitude.

The major note from Chapter Eight was that I'd suddenly woke the middle of one night and realised that, despite all previous claims to the contrary, KW wasn't the only left-handed person to have successfully transformed into an animal in the previous story. I'd gone through most of the 'Academy Award-Winning Werewolves' suspects that had transformed and confirmed that they were right-handed (thanks Google) and, in this story, I'd made a big deal about Bruce being left-handed and, hence, possibly more closely aligned to the Sinister Society than KW herself. And yet, I'd completely forgotten that in the back half of the previous story, Bruce had transformed into a rhino and back.

D'oh!

The only possible way out of this, given that I'd made a big deal about KW being the only leftie to have transformed successfully, was to insist Bruce wasn't left-handed at all. Which naturally led to him being a spy in the Sinister Society and so on and so forth.

Chapter Eight also allowed me to pay off the 'Tune Me Another One' clue, which was nice. I also tied it, kinda, into the Livingstone Statue, which was also nice.

We also introduced Sinister Two. I'd always intended Sinister Two to be Jon Stewart and was prepared with 'JS' initials and left-handed second-in-command (the misleading Stephen Colbert). Around about this point, it occurred to me that JS could also be Jerry Seinfeld, with left-handed sidekick Jason Alexander. I wasn't sure what I was going to do with this ambiguity, as my notes at this point indicate:

Current Position:
Dexters – with S2’s help set up the virus, want to clone KW, refine the virus, ensure there’s no cure. They don’t want to kill her
SSS – trying to find a path that doesn’t lead to genocide. They believe KW is the key. They’re been watching and waiting for her for centuries.
S2 – believes the deification of KW is a mistake. They’ve tried every possible future with her – maybe the should try one without. He’s set Derek up as the leader, hoping he has a similar DNA pattern

Bruce infiltrated the SSS because he believes they’re dangerous. Why? Because he was told as a child he’d be able to save the world, but only if he was left-handed. Who told him? He doesn’t remember/know. A young kid. Jewish. He remembers (under hypnosis) his school bag: JS.

REWRITE NOTES

Sped it up. Obviously. Got rid of superfluous ideas
Toyed with changing the Zimbabwean police officer's names, but ultimately kept them
Added some clues to Sinister Two's identity

YouTube Can Be Fun... Star Wars Cantina Theme on a Harp

2009-03-24T11:06:00.003+11:00

Liebke's still trying to get his nonsense together, so, during the meanwhile, in the much-beloved vein of Star Wars on Banjo and Star Wars on Bagpipes, here's the Star Wars cantina music on harp. Enjoy!

KW 2 Commentary - Chapter Seven

2009-03-07T12:38:00.002+11:00

Chapter Seven was written from late July to late August.

This chapter contains a few of my very favourite ideas:

The alternative solution to Newton's equations that let people fall to Earth without parachutes. I love the idea that a future mathematician might come up with a completely new solution to the fundamental equations of gravity and that this solution would have real physical effects
McDonald's Farm. The Extra-Invisible, Extra-Inaudible, Orbiting Hangar. E-I E-I O-H.
And, of course, Kitty sending secret messages to Orlando via Morse code television conversations, where monosyllabic words are 'dots' and polysyllabic ones are 'dashes'

Also, the chirality of the sub-atomic particles of the universe being left-handed seemed an appropriate and cool thing to add in at this point.

Derek the brother was also an addition I liked. I didn't really know why he was the leader of the Dexters at this point, but it certainly added a personal element to the crisis. All in all, this was probably my favourite chapter.

REWRITE NOTES

Slowed everything down. Added extra words. Inserted typos.
No, the opposite of the above
No significant changes to the storyline in the second draft. Good chapter

KW 2 Commentary - Chapter Six

2009-03-03T14:10:00.003+11:00

Chapter Six was written between mid-June and mid-July 2008. According to standard plotting theory, I was due for another twist in the storyline. I'd already had the big 'KW blows up' kicker at the end of Chapter Three. The end of Chapter Six called for something similarly impressive.

Unfortunately, I didn't have much up my sleeve. The best I could muster at this point was KW switching sides to join the right-handers. Which is okay, but not great. Still, I did have her revelation that she'd worked out how to nullify the virus to help things along (as I wrote the final bit of this chapter, the fact (?) that all polar bears are left-handed popped into my head. I mistakenly misremembered it as all platypuses being left-handed, but a quick Google search rectified that misapprehension. I then had to go back and remove polar bears from the list of bears attacking her.) It's an okay kind of story midpoint revelation, I suppose.

I wasn't completely sure how the polar bear left-handedness was going to tie in. But it was going to be the key to something. I think at this stage, I (like KW) assumed it would function as some kind of cure. As I thought it through more, I didn't see how that would be logical. And, heck, when it comes to transmutating viruses that are lethal to left-handed people, I'm a veritable stickler for logic.

REWRITE NOTES

Tidy, tidy, tidy. Speed up, speed up, speed up. Also double-checked that no polar bears were attacking her.
I'd always planned for KW to put on a battle suit at some point in the story and be fascinated by the data and power it gave her. Maybe get her into a fight she might, like, win. Alas, I couldn't work out how she'd have the time to get a full battle suit on. So, the helmet remained as close as she got.
I have no idea why I decided a non-deaf Marlee Matlin was a good idea. Or whether it meant anything. In the end, I decided it did no harm, so the non-deaf Marlee stayed. Is the idea that she's been faking her deafness all this time offensive and/or politically incorrect? Very possibly, yes.
The River and The Stones analogy was the best I could come up with for explaining how the whole adjusting the time stream worked. It's probably okay, but the back of my mind keeps nagging that there might be something better. Until the back of my mind gives ideas to the front of my mind, however, the River and the Stones analogy stays. I also like that it later ties into the Zambezi river in which KW almost drowns. Rivers pushing people ever-forward to their demise only for them to be rescued at the very last moment? Kind of neat that the analogy works on both the literal and 'river of time' level. I guess.

KW 2 Commentary - Chapter Five

2009-02-28T12:06:00.005+11:00

Chapter Five was written mostly in May 2008. It was mostly just an action sequence as KW did her best impression of Zoe Bell in Death Proof, scrambling around on the top of an out-of-control car.

By this stage, I'd started to get my ideas of the next set of the story under control. I knew the Dexters and the Southpaw Society would be fighting to get KW to join their respective sides. I still wasn't 100% sure why, but I knew it had something to do with the battling timelines. Some notes I made around this time:

The SSS use their memory transfer technology to test out future strategies. They have a pair of users strapped in around the clock, getting memories of the future. They take it in turns to relay what they see. These memories are then passed back in time still further and so forth. As the SSS change their plans, they get feedback on what that does to the future.

JS explains that the machine was used on KW. They led her into a trap and blew her up. Just before she died, they strapped the machine onto her and sent the memories back. They'd planned zillions of schemes to get her on board to help stop the Dexters from killing them all. Every other scheme failed. This was the one that worked. “Will you join us?” asks JS. “Of course,” says KW. What choice does she have? This scheme works.

But, of course, KW doesn't approve of the SSS. An insane elite running the world for their own benefit? It's crazy. However, realises that the only way to stop the SSS, given their ability to see (in some sense) the future is to destroy their future-seeing machine. She begins tracking it down. She finds it in South Africa (?). When she tracks it down, however, she discovers that it is used by a specially trained pair of users, overseen by Stephen Colbert. He explains that those without training tend to go mad, eg Jack the Ripper and the only real way to stop the machine is to kill the pair of users.

Clearly, at this stage, I'd decided that Sinister One was Jon Stewart - it made sense, he's left-handed, smart and politically savvy. He could easily be running the world from behind the scenes. Also, at this stage, I was convinced that Stephen Colbert was left-handed... mostly because I'd seen the sneaky bastard sign off at the end of his show with his left hand. They seemed a perfect pairing of lefties.

Of course, later I was to discover Colbert was right-handed.

But from the notes above, I'd obviously got most of the big picture behind the scenes mechanics sorted out. There were a few minor changes (alas, Jack The Ripper disappeared from the plot), but those notes form the essential gist.

A couple of other notes suggested I still didn't know much more than that.

The SSS know the virus future is coming. They tried asking KW for help. She knocked them back (why??) They tried kidnapping her and isolating the immunity, That didn’t work either. Even with a lifetime of research they couldn’t find a cure. So they’ve been watching, waiting, planning since she was born.

The virus has come from nowhere. It’s a huge surprise. To change the future they need to work out what stones to drop. If the path to the virus is hidden, they can’t stop it.

Who is the man in the hat?

What, exactly, do they want KW to do?

So a few large-ish questions (ie, why is our lead character part of the plot?). Still, I now had a path to follow...

REWRITE NOTES

The usual tweaks, typo-correction and tightening
In the original version, I had Akira tell KW that Bonnie had been murdered. Later on, I wanted to retract that. If the Southpaw Society had killed Bonnie (who was an innocent) then would KW want to work for them? I basically made this point later in the first draft and had Ben Stiller announce she wasn't dead at all, planning to undo the 'death' completely in the second draft. Of course, I'd forgotten I'd given KW a line of reasoning built on the foundations of her death. So, in the second draft, the death stayed. Instead, I just made it very hazy as to who is to blame for her death, with both the SSS and the Dexters accusing one another
Also, KW worked out Sinister One's identity with just a quick search on her iPhone, while sitting in the park. I always imagined she'd done a search for 'Tune me another one' and found the earliest possible record of this phrase and then did some further googling to trace it back to Jon Stewart. But who knows, maybe she did something even cleverer.

A Timely Plug

2009-02-24T10:27:00.002+11:00

While we continue to wait for Liebke to get off his butt and continue documenting the, ahem, 'creative' process behind the second of my novels, Kitty Wittgenstein and the Sinister Society of Southpaws, I thought I'd just remind those of you that have been caught up with Oscar fever, that the first of my novels, the very timely Kitty Wittgenstein and the Academy Award-Winning Werewolves, can be downloaded free just to the right there or (even more conveniently) here: link to PDF download (585K).

That's all. Speak soon.

KW2 Commentary - Chapter Four

2009-02-16T09:29:00.003+11:00

Chapter Four, written mostly in April 2008, was probably where I was most in 'making it up as you go along' mode. Up until now, I'd been heading towards a goal - the exploding KW. Now? I had only the vaguest idea where I was heading.

I had the rodeo idea in mind - purely from a puntastic perspective. And managed to get the 'Rodeo Ga Ga' and 'Video Killed The Rodeo Star' titles out of my system. But apart from that, I had nothing. So it seemed a good chapter in which to slow down, consolidate and recap what was known. Of course, one can't slow down too much in a KW story, so I sent a fresh batch of battlesuited people to try and get her. But, because these were earlier prototypes of the suits, I knew they weren't going to work as well. So that gave our heroine a chance for a small breather.

Not much more to add on this chapter. Over the next couple of chapters, I start to get fresh ideas of where the plot was heading, but I'll get to them next time.

REWRITE NOTES

Trim, trim, trim. Excess words gone. Typos corrected. The usual stuff.
With just about every celebrity in this story, there was a search for whether or not they were left-handed. Just to be sure (this would later prove problematic for Stephen Colbert). Generally speaking, it was easier to confirm left-handedness than to deny it. A search for 'left handed ' would usually do the job if they were, indeed, a southpaw. A search for 'right handed ' was far less likely to bear fruit. Which was fine - right-handed until proven otherwise became my philosophy. But I spent longer than usual trying to find out if Aaron Spelling was, perchance, a leftie. Just because it would have given KW something extra to ponder after Luke Perry's addled comments about him being 'the sinister one'. Alas, I could find no evidence of Mr Spelling's handedness, so I let it go.

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If Only I'd Been Written By... Douglas Hofstadter

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KW 2 Commentary - Chapter Twelve

KW 2 Commentary - Chapter Eleven

KW 2 Commentary - Chapter Ten

KW 2 Commentary - Chapter Nine

YouTube Can Be Fun... Bohemian Rhapsody Performed By Computers

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