I think this year's Latin bootcamp is officially getting to me.  Case in point: last night I tried to spell "illustrious" as "illustrius."  And over the Christmas holidays I declined my cousins' names.  Two of them end with -a (first declension) and one with -er (second declension), so it was easy ( Read more... )

Apparently at Kalamazoo (where the university holds a huge annual medieval studies conference) there's a group that gives mock papers. One year they wrote and presented a paper examining the time when Dante went to Ireland. "Apparently" while he was there, he invented limericks! Hahahahaha.

Now I have a new goal in life: write one of those papers. ( Read more... )

This coming season will be the last one for Corner Gas.  This is tragic.  The series finale will be in spring 2009, according to my friends down at the Internet.

Apparently they want to end it while they're on a roll, rather than have it continue indefinitely until it's no longer funny.  I suppose I understand, but it's hard to accept the immanent ( Read more... )

Amazon, I love you.  I've been looking for a copy of the Hilliard Ensemble's CD "Gesualdo Tenebrae" for years.  I finally found one at a reasonable price (it normally retails about $35), so that even with international shipping, I paid about $25 for the two-CD set.   Not bad for a CD that you can't find in stores and was even out of stock at Amazon ( Read more... )

Because I'm still not over the Prince Caspian trailer (squeee!), I had to share some of my favourite quotes from the Narnia books.   There are some plot spoilers, but ...well...you should all have read the books.  If you haven't read them -- and I mean all of them, because just reading The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe doesn't count -- then go ( Read more... )

So the Heidegger-and-Nietzsche-Essay-of-Death didn't kill me.  Shocking, I know.  And now it's oooover!

Of course, the monumental feat of finishing that essay means that I don't want to do any more work.  My brain is still in the permanent flux of the opposition and unity of Being and becoming!  Ahhh!  I've still got one more to go this semester, ( Read more... )

Dear Coriolanus,

You IDIOT.

Sincerely, 
Ellen.

ETA: I had to post this: Youtube clips of Eddie Izzard on empires, the world wars, and various dictators.  Funniest man ever.  And here, on Stonehenge.  And on religion, especially the Church of England.  But a warning: lots of strong language (and a really bad Welsh impression in the Stonehenge one ( Read more... )

I PASSED MY FINAL DRIVING TEST!

That is all. 

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So this travesty of a movie opens today.  And apparently they've cut out a vital character and are making one of the Signs Will's soul (oh, look, even more wannabe HP elements).  So to vent my disappointment, I'm posting some quotes from the BOOKS.  Some are narration and short phrases, because Susan Cooper has some of the most beautiful prose I've ( Read more... )