Happy Easter!

God is dead- but don't worry, he'll get better.

I am abandoning my personal traditions and, rather than heading off to christian camp for an exhuasting and emotionally charged weekend, i went out drinking with the Goblin, MrsBacon and Devious on thursday; hung around with Goblin on Friday and made it to church just in time, still wearing the clothes I wore the night before; went home to dinner with church friends i haven't seen for ages and remembered that i'm not alone in the world; and am bumming around and pretending to translate today. Therefore, I present you with a strange medieval tradition:

Strange Easter traditions
In Medieval England the game of egg throwing was popular in churches at Easter. The choir would gather and the vicar would throw a hard- boiled egg among them. The egg was thrown around and the choirboy holding the egg when the church bell rang was the victor and got to keep the egg.

It can be found at Libby Purves' Faith Central on the Times Online.

Also, if I were to start keeping this blog, would you read it?

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Disney nostalgia is all about the princesses, right? Everyone I know seems to be in love with Beast (as in, Beauty And The...), something I've never understood myself, but aside from him, the Princesses are where it's at.

Not for David Kawena. His Disney Heroes gallery is a truly awesome thing to behold. Check it out.

It's a Go-er

niahm_sage, who has long represented my Target Audience, and Jonathan Jarrett have given a thumbs up to The Naked Philologist. So I shall set about setting that up this week.

To that end, JLJ, or anyone else with a DVD of the Beowulf movie, can you take me a screencap of the scene where Angelina does philology naked (ie, where she discusses the origin of Beowulf's name)? I need to make me some icons...