- When mass hysteria and facts clash: The Top 10 Most Absurd Time Covers of The Past 40 Years [via]
- John Scalzi on Why New Novelists Are Kinda Old, or, Hey, Publishing is Slow
- Farrah Fawcett was friends with Ayn Rand. Bo Derek “is a really good friend” of Ray Bradbury. I don’t really have a point; I’m just amused by the unlikeliness of the pairings.
- Did you know that the title for one of Winston Churchill’s most famous titles, While England Slept, was actually based on a publishing mistake?
- And finally, while I think the idea of a Goonies sequel is probably a bad idea, Chris Columbus raises an interesting point as to why:
Perhaps the biggest hurdle for a Goonies 2 would be believing that modern kids would play outside.
“I don’t know if that’s possible anymore,” Columbus said. “Maybe if all the parents in the new Goonie movie forbid their kids to play on the Internet, that’s gotta be the plot. You can’t go anywhere near a computer or cell phone. I guess the adventures are online.”