CNN’s Connect the World column is asking for readers to post questions they would like to ask Robert Plant.

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Robert Plant’s New Year Resolution? To improve his driving:

“I park my car by touch, using the wheels as a guide to when I’ve hit the kerb.”

Here’s a video of Robert Plant talking about his interest in the Wolverhampton Wanderers football club.

The Birmingham Mail (UK) relates a tale of Robert Plant being turned away at the inn. In a travel piece about Ynyshir Hall in Wales, writer Adrian Caffery quotes Joan Reen, the owner of the establishment:

“One winter’s night an old Volvo roared up the hotel drive and a guy jumped out with a long mane of wild, curly hair.

“He wanted a room but he was dressed, well, rather casually. There was no one booked in so I told him we were closed and sent him away.

“My son had seen the man approach reception from his room and came rushing down the stairs. ‘Don’t you know who that was?’ he said. ‘It was Robert Plant!’ I had no idea.”

Luckily, Robert, who owns a property nearby in Artists Valley, returned to Ynyshir Hall and has been a regular visitor ever since, taking great delight in teasing Joan about the incident.

The bar at the Andaz West Hollywood Hotel has a drink named for Robert Plant. Dubbed “The Mr. Plant”, the cocktail is made from No. 209 Hendricks gin, tangerine juice, agave syrup, soda and muddled cucumber slices.

Shawn Steward from 103.7, The Mountain, describes her efforts to get closer to the action at Bonnaroo. How did it end up? Shawn writes:

Somehow I had talked us onto the side of the stage where the guitar techs and crew guys gather. They could have cared less. One guy was asleep in a hammock. It was amazing and totally enhanced by the fact that it was a bit dastardly. I think Robert Plant would have been proud, and I swear I saw a twinlke in his eye when he looked to our side of the stage.

Maybe he’s just twinkly. I prefer to think he twinkled at me.

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Time-Life music uses a six degrees of separation approach to selling some of their records in an above average sales pitch.

Caroline Langston, writing in Image/Good Letters, thinks Robert Plant has an air of humility about him.

She writes in part:

The picture from the Grammys showed something even further, I think, which is that the face can reveal the results of a life lived with integrity. I don’t mean a life of virtue, necessarily. The smile on Plant’s face revealed a man that looked pretty jovial and happy: clearly, he was having a good time, something that was confirmed in the media reports I read. (You probably watched it, so please feel free to comment.)

What I saw in his open expression, though, was something you don’t often see in the faces of public figures—such as, say, Hank Paulson or Rod Blagojevich—a kind of clear-eyed self-acceptance of himself, and humility.

That’s it: the man looked humble. As though he were amazed to be standing where he stood.

That attitude was reflected in the remarks by Plant that I later read when I was continuing to mull over why that photograph had struck me so. Filled with praise for his Raising Sand partner Alison Krauss, Plant credited the album’s brilliance to the creative tension arising from the fact that he and Krauss “come from such different places on the map,” musically. He stated, roughly, that while his background with Led Zeppelin, like so many other English bands of the Sixties, had always led him to conceive of American music strictly in terms of the African-American musical experience—as in Delta blues and R+B—Krauss had introduced him to that other great strand that flows down through white Southern folk culture.

It was the statement of a keen mind betraying a willingness to learn, and wonder.

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Cris Brunson, blogging in Moo Dog Media, reports that Robert visited Mermaid’s Cove Jewelers in Mystic, CT. Mermaid’s Cove specializes in nautical designs. Robert reportedly took home a Neptune figure.

Greet Robert Plant or lose your job. It’s a tough call. See the video.