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This is the family-friendly version from the cruise, inasmuch as any version of this song can truly be said to be family-friendly. "Sluice box mucking" is a reference to a story told earlier on the cruise by John Roderick about his worst job ever held, working in a gold mine.

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What I did with my weekend:

Flew to Phoenix for roughly 48 hours so I could attend the book release party for Kevin Hearne's Tricked. I first heard of Kevin and his Iron Druid Chronicles via his post in the wallet-emptying "The Big Idea" feature at Scalzi's. By the time I'd gotten no more than halfway through that post, I was all "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY" (which is frankly not that uncommon a reaction when I read that particular feature). Then I started getting other people to read them. I got chadu hooked, and I even got brian1789 to get over his distaste for fantasy and read them. And then I apparently turned into the kind of fangirl who will buy tickets to a party called "Atticus and Oberon's Sausage Fest" more than halfway across the country where she can eat bangers and mash and drink beer and hang out with an author at an Irish pub that figures prominently in his books.


Sausage Fest
Originally uploaded by catherine_s

Kevin made it a point to come around and talk to everyone, and he is as entertaining and as nice a guy in person as you might think based on that Whatever post, and his mother (who monitors his Google mentions) is utterly charming. (Hi Mrs. Hearne! ;) )