If I had my PDA here, I’d put up a picture to show it, but I got bit by a bee as I smacked it to my head walking to campus. All right, so maybe it wasn’t dead when it bit me (but it was close). I nonetheless had Walter Brennan‘s words in my head….
Category: amusement
Medieval Mantis
Here’s Judith G. Klausner‘s amazing mantis art, this time portraying the story of Judith, who chops off the head of the evil leader Holofernes. In the Old English poem, this woman of elfin beauty figures out that this is the best way to rally her people to defend themselves against invaders (whose description in the…
8 Things & 8 Tags
It’s meme-o-rific time! Thanks to Pádraig, who tagged me. RULES:* 1. Post these rules.* 2. Each tagged person must post 8 things about themself on their journal.* 3. At the end, you have to choose and tag 8 people* 4. Go to their pages and send a message saying you tagged them.* 5. No tag-backs…
Pictures from NoCarolina
As we get ready to head off on another journey, here are pictures from the last trip but one. These were all taken by Mildred who has generously allowed me to post them here. Here’s the photogenic Birdie at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences near the Arthropods exhibit. Museums can be dangerous places!…
Baby Jane
On the way to the post office and grocery store today, I walked past a woman I have seen once or twice before so she’s probably local. The weird thing is she looks an awful lot like a latter day Baby Jane Hudson with her garish lips, raven-kohled eyes layered with blue and a thick…
Summertime and the Livin’s Easy
Off on an early flight from Albany, briefly stopping over at Baltimore. In Carolina now at Susan’s palatial home, relaxin’ as if this were something I did everyday. Kitties surround us waiting for patting. Snacks and bevvies at hand with plenty of friendly conversation. It’s good. Oh, and there’s the shiatsu massage chair (reason for…
Slammed by the Standard
Hey, nice attack piece in the Weekly Standard on medievalists and Kalamazoo — best of all, it includes a personal swipe at my panel. Whoo hoo: The blowout, or perhaps the reductio ad absurdum, of these scholarly endeavors was Session 531 on Sunday morning, “Medieval Masculinities on Film.” That session featured four separate papers: yet…
Son of Dracula Iron-On
Big thanks to Gene for scanning in this beauty:Yes, it’s the iron-on patch from the soundtrack album for the Apple film Son of Dracula, starring Harry Nilsson and, as Merlin, Ringo Starr. Thanks to the internet, I finally got a copy of the film some time back. It’s not good (shock! horror!), but I have…
Random Meme
My blog is worth $6,774.48.How much is your blog worth? Tip o’ the hat to Paul Di Filippo at the inferior 4.
Did you see it?
NASA, of course, has great coverage of the terrific show last night, including this stunning image. It was a cold night, but it was worth braving the chill for such a beautiful sight. We laughed on the way to campus yesterday morning because the digital billboard near Everett Road had an ad for the lunar…