In the continuing series of Really Appalling Commercials recorded on my lj:

There was just a YODELING CATFISH on my tv screen.

Someone was holding it and squeezing its scaly little head so that its mouth would open and close and it looked like it was yodeling. It's the most terrifying commercial I've seen since the happy singing innardsIt was ( Read more... )

Sir John Sinclair begowthe to dance
William DunbarSir Jhon Sinclair begowthe to dance ( Read more... )

List of Titles for Articles that Don't Exist But Really Ought To

(gleaned from the margins of my class notes)

"Flipping the Bird: Regendering the Phoenix in Early Modern Iconography"
"Sympathy for the Devil: Milton's Transformation of Marlowe's Faustus"Chicks With Dicks in Shakespeare's Sonnets ( Read more... )

It's surprising how much really dumb and cracked-out Star Trek episodes can improve one's mood ( Read more... )

From Polemo-Middinia, an odd macaronic Latin-Scots poem by William Drummond of Hawthornden, who apparently got up to some odd things when he wasn't transcribing the drunken ramblings of Ben Jonson. I'm not sure who the editor/translator is.

Sea-sutor obstupuit, summique in margine saxi ( Read more... )

For no reason, just because.

This was written on James VI's departure from Scotland to assume the English crown.

On the River Tweed
Sir Robert AytonFaire famous flood, which sometyme did devyde ( Read more... )