But I can't see you every night free

[sovay]

Yes, it's linkery. But it's all worth the click.

rushthatspeaks apostrophizes the intrepid refrigerator slug.

watermelonpoet creates the impossible: a T.S. Eliot / George Lucas crossover.

Samantha Henderson's "Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Stage Four" also reminds me of T.S. Eliot, but for different reasons.

nineweaving (via audiography) offers a short course on the antecedents of Cloud, er, on strange and fantastic folk music in the form of the Watersons, Martin Carthy, and Waterson : Carthy.

And lastly: T-Rex Goes Poof!

fleurdelis28 and I speculated yesterday on where people put their brilliant weirdness before there were blogs. We came up with graffiti. (Fullones ululamque cano non arma virumque . . .) Or modernist literature. (riverrun) Take your pick?

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[time-shark.livejournal.com]

And I have seen the Dark Lord of the Sith hold my Throat, and snicker
In short, I am afraid.

*spasms in sympathetic agony*

"The pain!"

(oh, wait, wrong franchise...)

[spectre-general.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that "Love Song" was actually pretty moving. And accurate!

Wow, invoking TS Eliot can really add some depth to things, huh? Someone should create great literary works out of other movie franchises. Like Lord of the Rings... oh wait...

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Fullulones ululamque cano non arma virumque . . .

I sing, not arms and the man, but "Twist and Shout"?

Nine

[sovay]

(Dammit. I put an extra syllable in there. I'd just woken up . . . It's fixed now in the post.)

Dry cleaning and the screech-owl.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Given my druthers, I would myself.

Nine

[sovay]

ŭlŭla, -ae, f., "screech-owl." Related to the Sanskrit ulūka, old German uwila, ūla, new German Eule, and consequently the English owl. See also the Greek ὀλολύζω, "to raise a (ritual) cry."

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

And Til Eulenspiegel, and Wodehouse ("I know all about Eulalie"), and The Most of S.J. Perelman...

But what of "fullonis"? (If I have the right nominative.)

Nine

[sovay]

fullo, fullōnis, m: "cloth-fuller."

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

As in fuller's earth? Cool! Got any Greek waulking songs?

Nine

[sovay]

No, but I suspect that should any come to light, you would be the first to know.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

I was born in the month of Owls by Association?!

[sovay]

It would indeed appear so. Is this so bad?

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Not at all. But it IS something of a new way of looking at things.