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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[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.