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Via Quod She and Making Light: Newspaper comic strips are dull and dated, argues the anonymous blogger-glossator at Japes For Our Time, but perhaps they're not dated enough. Why not translate Family Circus and Beetle Bailey, into Middle English, adding bits of Wyclif here and there, to produce theological allegories that are actually funny? I have to say, most of the results are real improvements on the source material. (One recent Japes post even includes a nod to recent events at Geoffrey Chaucer's former blog!)

Meanwhile, sister_coyote wrote me a gorgeous story for the No on Proposition 8 fundraiser livelongnmarry. The Hawk in the High Air is a tale set in the aftermath of the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogion.* ( My summary and comments are under a cut because of incest references. The Mabinogion is like that. )

Finally, a certain company just sent me an e-mail offering to pay me for my class notes -- presumably, the notes for the classes in which I might be enrolled, rather than the notes for the classes I have taught. The letter includes the tagline, "Less library. More lazy. Better grades, guaranteed." Oddly enough, I find that I am not tempted by the offer of less library.