Ten YouTube Videos I Can't Not Watch: Number 7-Judas Priest Live

Will these stupid heavy metal gestures have a hold on me my whole life? God, I hope so.



Yours in laying down the law,

Art

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Ten YouTube Videos I Can't Not Watch: Number 8-"Fucking Awesome"

Some questions in life we'd die to know that answers to. Others we'd rather not know. Still others we demand not to know. I don't know what's going on in this video, and I please don't tell me.



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Art

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Ten YouTube Videos I Can't Not Watch: Number 9-Gangsta Goes Down Dancing the Dougie

Why this guy drifts into the street to show off his Dougie moves I'll never know, but 100,000 or so YouTube viewers are glad he did.

Yours in laying down the law,

Art

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Ten YouTube Videos I Can't Not Watch: Number 10-Abba, "Waterloo"

Agnetha is on fire in this one.




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Art

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Two Weeks Off

I'm in the middle of taking two weeks off of writing my novel-in-progress Good Night to the Rock and Roll Era. I normally don't take time off of writing. Taking time off of writing makes me irritable, but it became necessary as a few obligations needed my attention between now and the 15th, chief among them the painting of our house. Coupling not writing with this sort of real work is the kind of thing that, shall we say, does not bring out the best in your humble blogger, and I've been--or at least felt like--a jerk for a week.

The good news is that most of the hard part of the paint job is done, so maybe it won't be so bad from here on out. I just hope the rain lets up enough so we can get it in. If not, it might not get finished until May, which would be worse.

So wish me luck, and hopefully I won't fall off a ladder.

Yours in laying down the law,

Art

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Abba Experiment

Watch and listen to the song below.



Now, try to quit singing it.

Yours in laying down the law,

Art

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Two Things

Busy week here in the land where the law laid down, so not much time for the blog.

Still, you should know that this is your last week to register for my rock and roll writing course at the Basement Writers' Workshop! Who wants to write the next The Commitments, or A Visit from the Goon Squad, or High Fidelity? Yeah, me too, and I can help you. Sign up. It's going to be fun and rewarding, and it starts next Monday!

Secondly, Kel is finished reading my novel aloud to me, and while I think I have some work to do for revision, it's not an overwhelming amount. What does that mean? It means this novel is going to be ready sooner than I thought. I can see sending out query letters to a few agents by Dec. 1. I didn't expect there was any real chance of getting to this point in 2010, but there it is.

So, woo hoo for me!

Yours in laying down the law,

Art

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