{"id":491,"date":"2008-12-17T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=491"},"modified":"2008-12-17T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T20:11:00","slug":"deja-vu-one-more-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Deja vu one more time"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had another<\/em> of those weird cases of life imitating my art, this time with Mortal Touch<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In the first chapter of Mortal Touch<\/em>, Veronica comes into Regan’s store to invite her to a private corporate party for which she has VIP passes.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cNo, it\u2019s okay! There\u2019ll be hundreds of people there, it\u2019s some big corporate bash, for their IPO\u2014Akins Biotech or something, it\u2019s on the passes. Karen\u2019s heard that they\u2019re getting big funding from the Krafts. A couple of the Patriots might be there. Not Brady or anyone like that, but a couple of the second string.\u201d
\n\u201cHoly shit.\u201d Regan blinked. \u201cAnd we can get into that? Are you serious?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Krafts own the New England Patriots football team (Tom Brady is their star quarterback, although he was out this season with an injury). Now, I was completely amusing myself when I wrote this. I had no idea whether the Krafts did or would ever finance a biotechnology company. For all I knew, they had religious objections to biotech and wouldn’t touch it with a ten-foot pole. I was just having fun with some local references.<\/p>\n

I was therefore quite amused to see the following in the December 8 Boston Globe:<\/p>\n

Patriots owner may get in the game–biotech, that is<\/a><\/p>\n

So, thinkerofthunks<\/a> and sphynxcatvp<\/a>, would you like to have cameos in a forthcoming book and be mentioned by name as having won the lottery or the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes? Frankly, I’d be curious to see what would happen! I know I’m a magician, but…yeesh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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