Don't Do It Dad

A snippet from a Sydney Morning Herald article which had 2 paragraphs about swimmer Brooke Hanson, who won a silver medal in the 100m breaststroke:

The Hanson celebration may not be over quite yet. The word we hear is a few days ago Papa Hanson and his assistant, Dave Mason, promised Brooke if she won a medal that at the end of the swimming the two would swim a lap of the pool ... nude."

Now I'm sure that will make for some interesting Olympic tv.

Doh!

Upon receiving my gorgeous copy of Poppy Z. Brite and Christa Faust's Triads, I realised that I accidentally ordered it twice from Subterranean Press*.

So I currently have the Deluxe Hardcover Edition, and later will have the Deluxe Limited Edition. If I hadn't actually looked at the packing slip/invoice I don't think I would have realised I'd ordered it twice until the second one arrived on the doorstep, because the invoice showed that this completed a different order than the pending order in which I'd selected other books.

I guess I'm just happy that A) I'm a big fan anyway, and B) that Sub. Press often has very nifty specials, which they were running both times I ordered, which mean that I'm not actually out of pocket by having two of them.

Oh well.

And this adds one more to the ever growing To Read pile.


* One might wonder how this can happen, well, that's pretty easy... both were ordered in a pre-order, which is usually months or more in advance (in this case the first order was placed back in November for a book that only just came from the printer). And secondly there's no function that you can check some database with your pending orders, and I my computer at one stage earlier this year ate some of my email, so I didn't have the order confirmation email anymore.