EGAD
or, (de)mythologizing the fetish of placewherein our unlikely hero composes a series of
empirical geo-anthrospatial dispatches, aimed at establishing just where
he is, and perhaps even why it matters
Coming out of a long week, working on another. Y'all will just have to deal with the brief and uninformative posts.
Decided to take Saturday completely off: this mostly involved sleeping in to make up for skipping a few nights of sleep, and an afternoon of shopping. "Retail therapy" is, I believe, the pop-cultural name for the phenomenon. So now I have a backpack full of used books, used albums, and good spices. My one big splurge was to give into temptation and buy the Beowulf Folio facimile that was making eyes at me in Magers & Quinn. Of course, now I need to brush up on my Anglo-Saxon so I can read the thing properly. Still evokes (quite possibly made-up) childhood memories, though ... Hwaet we garde- / na. in gear-dagum. žeod-cyninga / žrym ge-frunon hu ša aeželingas ellen / fremedon. ...
If I ever get to go home long enough to make it, I also now have the ingredients for a killer mushroom pie.
In the Impractical Career Moves Department, Lindsay is my new hero.
And (news not for the easily offended) further evidence that the Discovery Institute's Intelligent Designer probably isn't Pat Robertson's God.
Posted by Milligan at October 2, 2005 08:46 PM | TrackBackI want to know where you got the old English font.
Last night I was attempted to go to bed, and found myself staying up to read an OE dictionary. I was really quite surprised by how amusing and informative it was. Everyone once in a while I would wake up Andy and make him guess what a word meant. I think he hates me.
Posted by: Jessica at October 3, 2005 07:17 AM (Permalink)Me wonders if that graffiti refers to the guy dressed like Batman who I saw running in the Twin Cities Marathon (his running buddies were dressed as Robin and Superman).
Posted by: John at October 3, 2005 09:22 AM (Permalink)Jess: Unbeknownst to most, the eth and thorn characters are part of the standard Unicode Latin character set. Sadly I did have to use the symbol table to enter them, as my keyboard lacks the appropriate keys.
John: The graffiti predates the marathon, but maybe he trains in the area?
Posted by: Milligan at October 3, 2005 10:50 AM (Permalink)
Ah, you got the Old English Text Society volume of Beowulf? Cool. One of my favorite volumes in that series.
Hooray for Lindsay. Brave girl.
Posted by: Papa at October 4, 2005 12:45 AM (Permalink)