Help with IAF Cover Search

I know a lot of you are artists - if you belong to a group like DeviantArt, could you please post the news about the Interfictions 2 Cover Search there, or anywhere else that you think interesting work gets done?

Best link for info is probably the one here on the IAF Blog:
http://www.interstitialarts.org/wordpress/?p=65
or the one on the Flickr site:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/interstitialarts/discuss/72157613288823029/
Lots of great work is already up over at
http://www.flickr.com/groups/interstitialarts
- check it out! And remember, the deadline for posting is February 16th. Thanks!

The Writer's Life

Many fine pieces posted on the new Interstitial Arts Flickr page; for transparently obvious personal reasons, this is my current fave:

"Take Me Back to Cairo"

Omg - nothing is ever lost (thank you, Mr. Stoppard): in a recent post I mentioned the rather goofy song that was in one of my old public radio specials. I thought it was long gone with the LP it was on. . . . but no!! The immortal Take Me Back to Cairo lives on - on YouTube! Not only that, but people have done research on it and on the artist, Karim Shukry!

All hail the power of the internet.

Here is the original context from my radio special, Festival of Liberation: the Passover Story in World Music (I suppose I should have waited til April, but you know I'll forget):
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And here is the video in all its glory:
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(Actually, the best part of it, if you go to YouTube, is the heartfelt messages left there for Shakry's son, who made the video.)