Not-politics – Page 1221

‘Because I couldn’t fly.’

– As Age of Sail reminds us, this was reportedly the reply by Colonel John Cope to the question of why he run all the way from from Edinburgh to Carlisle (about 74 or so miles) to escape a rebel Highlander regiment.

Speaking as the grandson of a MacMillan, I’m not surprised in the slightest.

AoS has the song by the Tannahill Weavers up at the site, as well as another pretty good post right afterward illustrated how AoS naval fiction writers have such a untapped field of historical narrative to draw from. Check ’em both out.

Moe Lane

PS:

There’s something fun about singing this one in a group.

Monty Python, of course.

One of the highlights of last weekend, in fact. Although we weren’t nearly drunk enough to do it proper justice: we all had to drive home eventually, after all.

Happy (Belated) Birthday, Mi Contra Fa!

Like a complete goof, I didn’t link to my lovely, smarter-than-me, and sometimes frighteningly talented lady wife’s medieval music research blog Mi Contra Fa. Yesterday was her one-year anniversary, and it really has done wonders for her productivity while not limiting her creativity and work quality in the slightest.

I know that most people reading this don’t groove to medieval music, but if you do, check it out.

The Watchfriends Alternate Universe Saturday Morning Cartoon.

[UPDATE]: And welcome, Ace of Spade HQ readers. May I suggest this?

And, via the aforementioned birthday girl at Lurking Rhythmically, we see a link to…

To…

This.

Moe Lane

PS: If you’re not ready to kill either me or her at this point, here is a link to Erin’s ongoing Curse/Or online-story-in-progress. Warning: language, mature themes.

Updates to Book of the Week and Wish List.

We are removing How Much Is a Million? from the Book of the Week. As it is her birthday, we will allow my old friend Erin Palette of Lurking Rhythmically to pick the book: Lullaby, by Chuck Palahniuk.

I have also removed The Hunt for Red October from the wish list: I own a copy now, and I really wish that I didn’t.

Not that this is anything but academic to me, of course.

I’m not going to ask why Allahpundit got sent the link to this.

(pause)

Hey, after a while you can guess which one of the two puts up any one particular headline.

This is only Not-quite Safe For Work because you can’t actually really hear the words.

Trust me on this.

Moe Lane

PS: My wife just did a 1970s Invasion of the Body Snatchers-style shriek… at the title of the LiveScience article, which included a vicious attack on the poor, abused apostrophe.

What? Oh, yes, my wife often looks over my shoulder when I blog. In this case, she refused to believe that this was the actual song until she heard the refrain.

HAHAHAHAH! Good one, Ain’t it Cool News.

(H/T Ace) You almost had me believing that Lucas was going to do a Star Wars TV series; but even he’s not that twis…

Sweet merciful Jesus.

Picture via Encyclopedia Dramatica, a site that I will never, ever admit to having read in any other context. Just like the rest of the Internet.

Funny or Die brings us “Nationalized Citibank.”

[UPDATE] Via Brother Caleb: Salon is very, very unhappy at this commercial. Savor it, my droogies. Savor.

Via a will-remain-nameless colleague, the language is very rough, but the sentiment is very real:

The New F***ing Citibank – watch more funny videos

Dunno whether to tag this as politics or not-politics. Probably both.

So, where have I been?

Wrestling with video uploading. Which at least I know more about now than I did then.

Suggestions for a good, free substitute for Windows Movie Maker would be welcome right now.

Would you believe that this was Raul Julia’s last movie role?

Honest to God. The hell of it is, I don’t know that Raul Julia wouldn’t have changed things around if he had known that Street Fighter would have been the last time he’d be on the silver screen. Nobody chews scenery like he did in that film unless he’s having fun.