A couple more things:

[zotz]

The other week I came across a website with an early draft of Barry Hughart's highly excellent Bridge of Birds. If you haven't read the published version, then I'd recommend having a look at this to see whether it's likely to be your sort of thing. If you have read it then you're probably going to read that without my prompting.

niddrie_edge pointed me at a very odd story concerning a film called Darklands, made about ten years ago and in some ways rather like a version of The Wicker Man set in South Wales. The producers seem to have been putting it about that they and their film have been cursed by a scary gang of Edinburgh witches called the Beltane Fire Society (of which I are a member, and which is not witches). Now, in spite of the fact that this is very obviously the tallest Scottish witch story since the exceedingly tall Tam O'Shanter (or possibly even since MacBeth), they allegedly convinced Richard Stanley of this too, which I'm not sure I believe either.

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[rdi.livejournal.com]

Hadn't heard of Bridge of Birds before. Looks like TPL's copies are reference only, but Chapters seems to have it in stock. I sense a disturbance in my credit card balance...

[zotz]

I hate to have to break it to you, but there are two sequels.

[shaunotd.livejournal.com]

"Tam O'Shanter"

You know something's wrong when you need five attempts to stop reading this as "Tam O'Shatner"...

rotflmao

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

You bad person. Boston Legal is now calling me!