Category: Links

I've been immersed in politics this week, and as I try to avoid blogging about that directly (the occasional vitriolic aside is more than enough), I'm straining a bit to come up with some fun links.

Pickings are slim between Christmas and New Year's, but here are a few things that have caught my eye.

This week: fantasy languages, creepy Christmas carols, and incendiary screeds.

This week: the stories behind two viral videos and the eternal joy of sneering at Ayn Rand.

This week: opera and protesters, poetry translation, gluttonous porcupines, and, I swear, a new post in the next couple of days.

I know I said I'd actually get some writing down this past week, but as soon as I turned in that freelance project, my immune system promptly crashed, and I spent several days being sick and pitiful.

I've been having flashbacks to my college days this week.

This week (which has left me completely unproductive here because I stupidly thought it would be a good idea to accept a big freelance copyediting assignment while also teaching a ten-week class for the first time, not to mention holding down my normal full-time job—I'll try to post more this coming week!): an idiosyncratic pianist and a masterpiece of children's literature.

This week: misguided Oxfordians, Marxist action movies, and the joy of kicking a particularly obnoxious dead horse.

This week: the obscurity of National Book Award finalists and Obama's subtle critique of the new Dr. King memorial.