An essay of sorts. Two exempla (Borges, Iyad El-Baghdadi), comment, a true story, and some poetry. Lots of colourful images: colourful in a good way.
cartography
more mapping
Or, beyond the tangent du jour.
(for more on the thumbnail, and the punchline, see “Death will be your Santa Claus,” Cat and Girl Donation Derby, 2010-10-11)
cool-hunting
PÖANG armchair (matching footstool out of shot). From IKEA of Elizabeth, NJ (2004).
Hairy Man. From John Bulwer’s “Anthropometamorphosis: Man Transformed: or the Artificial Changling” (1653).
Or, Big Hairy Post no. 3. From the sublime to the ridiculous.
← From my arm-chair—that classic that most of my colleagues seem to have, too—to yours.
Moral of the story: don’t spend too much time with a post. Be safe, gentle readers: use chairs. →
Vancouver: the obrienaternal basic survival guide
Sometimes Medievalists–even meta-meta-ones–are obliged to interact with post-medieval external reality in a less observational and commentative way. To live in it directly.
pre-Samhain special
Oh, I do miss Ireland.
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