You know, I’m just gonna shift it over to mostly non-political this week.

There’s almost nothing in the way of political news going on right now anyway. Gotta love August, huh? – Well, no: not if your gig involves covering stuff that happens in Dizzy City, and the entire town’s gone for the month. Great for the country; not so great for hitcount on this blog. Continue reading You know, I’m just gonna shift it over to mostly non-political this week.

Dante’s Inferno: the novelization!

Longfellow (whose translation* they’re using) would be… asking where his damn royalties were, actually:

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Yeah.  They took the first book of the Comedy, slapped in some Dante’s Inferno-specific artwork and called it a ‘novelization‘.

Boo-yah.

Hey, Penny Arcade said it best: “fact is, sometimes you got to lie to a motherf*cker.”  Only, without the asterisk.

Moe Lane

*I prefer the Ciardi translation, myself.