I missed this the first go-round, but McSweeney’s parody of Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky on The Lord of the Rings is pretty funny.
by Will on December 6, 2009
I missed this the first go-round, but McSweeney’s parody of Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky on The Lord of the Rings is pretty funny.
Tagged as: Howard Zinn, lord of the rings, Noam Chomsky, Parody
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Nobel Peace Prize Jury Faces Formal Inquiry
Read the story here. Here’s the paragraph that would make clicking through worthwhile, if you’re still undecided:
If the Stockholm County Administrative Board, which supervises foundations in Sweden’s capital, finds that prize founder Alfred Nobel’s will is not being honored, it has the authority to suspend award decisions going back three years — though that would be unlikely and unprecedented, said Mikael Wiman, a legal expert working for the county. ( 3 comments)
A Little Side Project of Mine
As if I needed another blog! This one’s dedicated to translating some of the never-before-translated work of the French neo-Romantic poet Edmond Rostand, author of Cyrano de Bergerac and member of the Académie française.
Everyone knows Cyrano, of course, but much of Rostand’s lyric work has never been read in English before. I’m trying to change that, one poem at a time. ( 7 comments)
Regulatory Capture
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal ( 2 comments)
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That made my day. Love the Strider bits, in particular.
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