Happy birthday this 27th July to ...

plaidphoenix!

(Just about in time before midnight, anyway!)

In other (not very newsy) news, every fic at snorkfics is now tagged with a neat little book cover icon to say which book it's compatible with -- that's 19 DH, 9 HBP and 2 OotP by my reckoning. Well all right, that's after rewriting a paragraph or two in Honour Amongst Thieves and Blood Lines, and making tweaks to The Open Sea and the Sky, That's What Friends Are For, Dangerous Driving, The Hunter, and Not Given Up Yet, but close enough eh? (I haven't put To Dwell In Dreams up there yet -- best to wait for it to go through a beta at Checkmated.)


Lyrics: Haven't done one of these for a while -- 22nd June, in fact -- but when I look back, the last one was Tom Robinson's classic Glad To Be Gay from 1976, one of a dozen political songs I was using for a theme in a quiz a couple of days later. It was spotted only by themolesmother.

Here's an absolutely great song that I also used in that quiz:

In the Cheese Pavilion and the only noise I hear
Is the sound of someone stacking chairs and mopping up spilt beer
And someone asking questions and basking in the light
Of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer

Mixing Pop and Politics he asks me what the use is
I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses
While looking down the corridor out to where the van is waiting ... (1980s)