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Aug. 29th, 2005 10:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rymenhildI haven't posted anything genuinely interesting in far too long.
Today is not going to be the day I write something creative for LJ. It is, however, the day I post all the links that have kept me amused for the last week.
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angevin2, The Stuarts*, South Park style. lynnoxford and muchabstracted might be especially amused by the rendition of Charles II and Nell Gwynne.
schiarire has written a lovely story about what really happened to the girl with jewels on her tongue. It's very carefully written, and full of beautiful awkwardnesses.
Slate links to a NYT article on John Roberts as a brilliant copy editor obsessed with minutiae of spelling, word choice and grammar. Perhaps I will like Roberts as a Supreme Court justice after all.
ajhalluk pointed out that parents in Missouri attempted to ban Lois Lowry's The Giver from being taught at a local middle school. According to the Columbia Missourian article, The Blue Springs District Communication Arts Committee unanimously voted to keep the book, noting that ninth graders in the same school district "read 'Romeo and Juliet,' a work featuring gang violence, disobedience to parents and teen suicide." Cerise Ivey, the mother leading the campaign against The Giver, says she
doesn’t know why people bring up Shakespeare when discussing “The Giver.” To her, there is “no comparison.” She is not against “factual, historical violence” being taught in schools.
Let me repeat that. This crazed mother thinks that the violence in "Romeo and Juliet" is all right for students because it's historically accurate.
In any case,ajhalluk's discussion of literature taught to children includes an excellent list of lessons we all should have learned in high school English. From Jane Eyre, for instance, ajhalluk extracts the moral, "Always check the attics before accepting a proposal of marriage from the proprietor of a Gothick pile."
ETA: I have just received spam purportedly sent by Freud. The subject heading of said spam is "Men's essentials. All in one place."
*That's what I meant, anyway, when I typed "Tudors" the first time around.
Today is not going to be the day I write something creative for LJ. It is, however, the day I post all the links that have kept me amused for the last week.
Courtesy of
angevin2, The Stuarts*, South Park style. lynnoxford and muchabstracted might be especially amused by the rendition of Charles II and Nell Gwynne.schiarire has written a lovely story about what really happened to the girl with jewels on her tongue. It's very carefully written, and full of beautiful awkwardnesses.Slate links to a NYT article on John Roberts as a brilliant copy editor obsessed with minutiae of spelling, word choice and grammar. Perhaps I will like Roberts as a Supreme Court justice after all.
ajhalluk pointed out that parents in Missouri attempted to ban Lois Lowry's The Giver from being taught at a local middle school. According to the Columbia Missourian article, The Blue Springs District Communication Arts Committee unanimously voted to keep the book, noting that ninth graders in the same school district "read 'Romeo and Juliet,' a work featuring gang violence, disobedience to parents and teen suicide." Cerise Ivey, the mother leading the campaign against The Giver, says she doesn’t know why people bring up Shakespeare when discussing “The Giver.” To her, there is “no comparison.” She is not against “factual, historical violence” being taught in schools.
Let me repeat that. This crazed mother thinks that the violence in "Romeo and Juliet" is all right for students because it's historically accurate.
In any case,
ajhalluk's discussion of literature taught to children includes an excellent list of lessons we all should have learned in high school English. From Jane Eyre, for instance, ajhalluk extracts the moral, "Always check the attics before accepting a proposal of marriage from the proprietor of a Gothick pile."ETA: I have just received spam purportedly sent by Freud. The subject heading of said spam is "Men's essentials. All in one place."
*That's what I meant, anyway, when I typed "Tudors" the first time around.
