Tuesday 5 August, 2008 
' A white-bearded Florida man won an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest, a highlight of a festival honoring the late Nobel Prize-winning author.
Tom Grizzard, 69, of Leesburg bested 141 other contenders in the competition at Sloppy Joe's Bar, Hemingway's favorite watering hole when he lived in Key West throughout the 1930s.'
Monday 4 August, 2008 'Retailing the final book about the boy wizard at such a low price risks devaluing JK Rowling's entire series for generations to come.' Nicholas Clee argues that the Harry Potter series will be devalued by Asda's decision to sell the final book in the series for £1. I say books are too fucking expensive. You've got it the wrong way round. I can't wait to not have to buy paper anymore.
Sunday 3 August, 2008 
'A small menagerie of new Damien Hirst pickled animals took a bow... including a new shark, a zebra, a calf with solid gold horns and hoofs valued at up to £12m, and even a unicorn - a white foal fitted with a resin horn, rather than an apparition from a fairytale.
All have been churned out by his small army of assistants this year for an auction at Sotheby's in September which will sell more than 200 pieces. The auction is predicted to raise £65m, comfortably setting a new world record for the artist, and blazing a trail which other artists will watch with interest, of bypassing the gallery and dealer system and going straight to auction.'
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