As strange as fiction… (MU-related photos)

Sometimes the real world just seems to be trying to make it seem like my made-up world is real. In particular, I keep stumbling across things that could point to the Magic University world.

A good friend is a grad student at Harvard, working on a PhD, and stumbled across a display dedicated to campus sports clubs. In the case with the ping pong ball and martial arts uniform and frisbee, there’s a broom. Of the flying type.

And then there’s the graffiti corwin and I discovered on the elementary school near our house, which is just two blocks from where Faiella House (the department of magical healing) is located. It’s spray-painted on the wall like many graffitoes at urban schools everywhere… but is says, quite plainly: VERITAS. Um…?

Now, the broom *could* be explained by the fact that quidditch is taking off (no pun intended) on college campuses these days. No, I’m not kidding. But… what kind of vandal paints the word VERITAS on the side of a grammar school?

Photographic evidence below the cut!

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Mirrored from blog.ceciliatan.com.

As strange as fiction… (MU-related photos)

Sometimes the real world just seems to be trying to make it seem like my made-up world is real. In particular, I keep stumbling across things that could point to the Magic University world.

A good friend is a grad student at Harvard, working on a PhD, and stumbled across a display dedicated to campus sports clubs. In the case with the ping pong ball and martial arts uniform and frisbee, there’s a broom. Of the flying type.

And then there’s the graffiti corwin and I discovered on the elementary school near our house, which is just two blocks from where Faiella House (the department of magical healing) is located. It’s spray-painted on the wall like many graffitoes at urban schools everywhere… but is says, quite plainly: VERITAS. Um…?

Now, the broom *could* be explained by the fact that quidditch is taking off (no pun intended) on college campuses these days. No, I’m not kidding. But… what kind of vandal paints the word VERITAS on the side of a grammar school?

Photographic evidence below the cut!

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Mirrored from blog.ceciliatan.com.

Liner Note 13: Photos of the band

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

Cecilia here today.

Those of you following the DGC Twitter feed have already seen these images, but here they are for everyone to enjoy.

I was searching through a stock photography site for a book cover for something else entirely, and stumbled across a photo that had Daron written all over it. And even more startlingly, there on the same page, was one that could be Ziggy. Whoa.

I immediately dug out the old Spin article (which is about to come back into the plot, by reader demand) and typeset it (horrible sans serif fonts and all) in the Spin style, inserting the photos. It’s a full-color PDF, if you’re interested click here.

I’ve been looking for potential “played by” photos of the guys for quite some time (years!), and just wasn’t finding anything among the famous actors and real life musicians that would work. I could make comparisons to Michael Hutchence and Tommy Shaw and whoever, but couldn’t point to a photo. But now you can finally get at least a glimpse of what they might be like!

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