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.
Tag: dante’s inferno
Word of the Day: “Dudity.”
In context, I believe that it refers to ‘male nudity,’ which is apparently merely one of the things* that one can encounter in Dante’s Inferno… and wasn’t there a version of this available for the PC? Not that I could play it right now anyway.
Continue reading Word of the Day: “Dudity.”
Book of the Week: “Dante’s Inferno.”
And look to the cover illustration for Dante’s Inferno to get the joke. Or click here. At any rate, it replaces Mission of Honor as book of the week.
Dante’s Inferno: the novelization!
Longfellow (whose translation* they’re using) would be… asking where his damn royalties were, actually:
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.