“Flags, rags, ferry boats, scimitars and scarves…”
The Northeast is sunny with pseudo-spring; like most Washingtonians, I’m rather caught up in it. As we wait for the cold to re-descend, here are some fun links for a pleasant winter day.
The Gypsy Scholar turns a Philip Larkin poem upside down and discovers that it’s still quite readable.
Steven Hart ponders the second-best swordfight movie of all time.
Jonathan Jarrett jauntily (and justifiably) jabs at jargon.
Scott Nokes reviews Raising a Modern Day Knight and remembers the Fisher-Price toy that begat many a proto-medievalist.
Patrick Kurp pokes around in the memoirs of Sir Alec Guinness, who concluded that “Shakespeare can take care of himself.”
The folks who field-test microwaveable meals at HeatEatReview offer their top ten posts of 2007.
Bob Eckstein has written a History of the Snowman. Perhaps he’ll let us know about medieval snowmen?
Michael Blowhard pines for a self-help book to write a blog post about self-help books.
Finally, here’s a tragically incomplete video of the world’s greatest cover of “Stairway to Heaven.” How does it affect you blokes?
Wednesday, January 9, 2008, at 7:29 am
Alas, alliteration along these alignments allays my altruism, but I owe you thanks for the link anyway. Therefore, I can answer you definitively: “ooh, it makes us wonder…” (If I pick up any more of these people will start to wonder if we’ve ever been seen in the same place.)
Friday, January 11, 2008, at 8:51 pm
Yes, that’s right:
“The Gypsy Scholar turns a Philip Larkin poem upside down and discovers that it’s still quite readable.”
Not only readable, but even a bit mysterious.
Hodges Jeffery (aka “Man o’ Mystery”)
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