I’m sure everyone knew about this, and I’m just late to the party, but … The Onion, a fine source of satire, has videos on YouTube! I had no idea until this afternoon, when an esteemed fellow medievalist (we’re all fun folk), John K. Bollard, sent me this link to …
There are many reasons to like Teddy Roosevelt. Take, for example, this, from a letter he wrote from Oyster Bay, NY, on 1 September 1903: There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we …
Went back to the grind today. I’m still not near better, but I’m far closer than I was last week. Never again will I take the word “flu” in vain. I used to say things like “Oh, I had a 24-hour flu bug” or some such. No more. I’ve had …
I got a real kick out of this, since I’ve always wanted to try it myself. (Talking Old English to a Friesian, I mean — not buying a brown cow.)
This makes three (reference to the others here and here). Not a lot to this one from SFRevu, other than the fact that reviewer Sam Tomaino rates the story “Very Good” (nice!) and sums it up thus: Michael Livingston sets “The Angel of Marye’s Heights” during the Battle of Fredricksburg. …