The first half of Come Dance With Me is a lighthearted, sometimes funny description of the budding romance of a 50-something woman who heads a heavy metal band and a 60-something physician. Hoban's sly social commentary can be heard in whispers throughout. But every once in a while, the tone changes to one of concession to the largeness of inexplicable experience, as shown in this account of crossing the line between the states of sleep and wake.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
russell hoban no. 2
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Like the selection of the Hoban quote. Have you considered taking part in this year's Hoban celebration with it? Details at www.sa4qe.com. I'd also be keen to know how you do your slide show thing on your blog? Please drop me a line. Cheers, TC (UK)
I'll do it! I have a few locations in mind already. That site is a wonderful tribute to Russell Hoban. I've bookmarked it.
As for the slideshow, it's just a widget available through Blogger. If you happen to use Blogger, you can add pre-made elements to your blog's template, one of them being the slideshow.
Then you store the images on Flickr or wherever, make them public, and point the widget to the Flickr folder. The Blogger community is pretty active, and there's a lot of help to be had there.
If you don't use Blogger, you should be able to use a reasonably simple JavaScript to make a slideshow. A search of "javascript" and "slideshow" should net a number of sites offering open-source code for slideshows, which you can paste right into your html. Like this one:
http://www.barelyfitz.com/projects/slideshow/
My email is jpoolos at gmail.com. I'd be glad to lend a hand if I can.
Good luck, and thanks for tuning in.
JP
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