I know we've all seen this particular typo before, but I still couldn't help laughing at the email I just got from one of the university librarians asking if I wanted to renew my faculty stud. Yeah baby!

Orlando Furioso rocks. I was already enjoying it, but I just got to the part where Ariosto rips off my all-time favorite scene from Vergil (the death of Pallas: "aut spoliis ego iam raptis laudabor opimis / aut leto insigni; sorti pater aequus utrique est;" here transferred to Dardinel) and then follows it up with a really hilarious plot twist that ( Read more... )

YEAH!  YEAH!  YEAH!

I just got a subscription to Netflix. I have seen almost no movies or TV in the past year, and there are a lot of "classic" movies I've never seen. Does anyone have any recommendations for my queue -- any longtime personal favorites or recent good watches? I've already ordered the first season of The Office ( Read more... )

Fortunately for my LJ friends, I don't have time to post a long list of all the things I'll miss about Toronto. So I'll just say farewell, with love, and I give thanks that I am a part of all that I have met. (which part are you?)

Goodbye party at Rowers, 7:00 tonight. All the cool people will be there.

If I forgot to invite you, it's because my head is in 29 cardboard boxes. You're cool. Come to Rowers at 7. See you there!

Anna Russell is (well, mostly was, since she was born in 1911) a comic musicologist famous for her ability to teach and delight.

link to a biography, with emphasis on her summary of Wagner

Here's why I love to love her:  Unlike many supposedly-funny comediennes, Anna Russell had no need to play the feminist card.  She was simply a performer of ( Read more... )

I just killed a mosquito with The Love of Learning and the Desire for God -- further proof that 45 years after its first publication, this volume is still of great value to medievalists.

from Hero and Leander, in which Cupid helps Mercury get revenge on Jove by making the Fates fall in love with him (Mercury), which works pretty well until Mercury neglects them and they get their revenge:

And but that Learning, in despite of Fate,
Will mount aloft and enter heaven gate,
And to the seat of Jove itself advance,
Hermes had slept in Hell ( Read more... )

From the online Ante-Nicene Fathers:

"He [the devil] caused Adam by menus of Eve to slip into death."

Is this a typo for "means," or one of the silliest translations I've ever seen? I might just have to check the Latin.