Win a Kindle Fire

The Goodreads Giveaway competition has run its course and the winners are in. The prize is a signed copy of The Last King's Amulet and copies will be sent out this week. Congratulations to Cheng-Wen Hsu, Cara Cole and Daniel Smallwood.

Kindle Books & Tips will be doing a promotion for the book this August. If you would like the chance to win a Kindle Fire, go to their site below. It takes only a few seconds to enter and I hear the Fire is a pretty good machine.

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The Cranberries - Zombie

Perceptions are funny.... well, truer to say that perceptions are subjective. I like to know that, and I think it's a good thing to understand that what is said is not necessarily what is understood, but sometimes I forget. And then there are songs that remind me. Here's one. Music is intensely subjective. When I first heard Zombie I had no idea about it's context and so subconsciously applied my own. Even now, long later and knowing the intended context, it still evokes the same response.

Zombie

Another head hangs lowly Child is slowly taken
And if violence causes the silence 
Who are we mistaking 
But you see it's not me 
It's not my family In your head in your head
 They are fighting
With their tanks and their bombs 
And their bombs and their guns In your head in your head they are crying
 
[Chorus]In your head 
In your head Zombie zombie zombie ei ei
What's in your head In your head
 Zombie, zombie, zombie ei, ei, ei, oh do,do,do,do,do,do,do,do
 
Another mother's breaking heart is taking over the violence causes silence 
We must be mistaken 
It's the same old thing since 1916 
In your head in your head
 Their still fighting 
With their tanks and their bombs
And their bombs and their guns In your head in your head they are dying

[Chorus]In your head 
In your head Zombie zombie zombie ei ei
What's in your head In your head
 Zombie, zombie, zombie ei, ei, ei, oh do,do,do,do,do,do,do,do 

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And life is, as they say, unique and strange and .... subjective. Consider this my random thought of the day.

 

Freefall - Science Fiction Cartoon

Sometimes I'll stumble across something really good and then forget to share it. Here's an example. This cartoon has been running for a good while now, and you can go read it online, for free, unless you want to donate something - which I actuall recommend doing at some point. Good things should be supported or they stop happening.

Freefall, both funny and fun