Ma twll yn y pridd yn Alltwalis lle taflaf fy mhryderon

[sovay]

My life remains much too medical, but with neat things to read.

1. Via selkie: "Undzer Mishpokhe: A Queer Yiddish Curriculum Supplement." Let's hear it nokh a mol for In geveb.

2. Via a_reasonable_man: the Catalogue of Ships incorporated into a Roman-era mummy. It makes sense as a magical text to me. Who wouldn't want so many heroes and ships on their side with all that underworld to cross?

3. I was not confident until I saw the illustrations as well as the title that I had really read, in the same elementary school library that introduced me to Alan Garner and Peter Dickinson and Madhur Jaffrey, Leon Garfield's Mister Corbett's Ghost (1968). I am intrigued by the starrily cast television film which may not have existed my first time around with it.

P.S. Via sholio: I had no idea the musk ox was a megagoat. I am delighted.

Comments

[selkie]

My one thing with the ez pronoun is do you say it ehz or eiz or ayz? But also. Super important.
MEGAAAAA GOOOOATTTTT.

[moon_custafer]

TIL there’s a former MBA pitcher who’s now an archeologist studying Etruscan sites: https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/former-all-star-closer-brad-lidge-is-now-an-archaeologist-011527894.html

[sovay]

TIL there’s a former MBA pitcher who’s now an archeologist studying Etruscan sites

That is an excellent thing to learn! Also to be doing.

[sovay]

My one thing with the ez pronoun is do you say it ehz or eiz or ayz? But also. Super important.

I personally would say eyz and you'd tell me not everything has to sound like shund.

MEGAAAAA GOOOOATTTTT.

Honestly they look aspirational.

[thanate]

Megagoat!! <3

and I like the Catalogue of Ships as an apotropaic retinue of dead heroes instead of an army of cheap shabtis; it makes much more sense than the other takes I'd seen.

[selkie]

Ehz, then, thank you for the calibration. (If one cannot feud with one's ride-or-die about their drunk regional accent, with whomst...?)
In other news, the cat's ears are broken, but we have at some expense found out it's not a stroke, but a sudden massive invasion of kitty malassezia. GUESS WHAT WE HAVE AT HOME *powders him with vigor*
I think I would like my land-based manifestation to be a MEGAGOAT. It's so FAFO.

[sovay]

Ehz, then, thank you for the calibration. (If one cannot feud with one's ride-or-die about their drunk regional accent, with whomst...?)

It's just not the same feuding with the other uptightniks!

In other news, the cat's ears are broken, but we have at some expense found out it's not a stroke, but a sudden massive invasion of kitty malassezia. GUESS WHAT WE HAVE AT HOME

Oh, my God. Please do flour him with nystatin. Is he working his way through an encyclopedia of unlikely cat disorders?

I think I would like my land-based manifestation to be a MEGAGOAT. It's so FAFO.

You'd be magnificent. And built like a small tor.

[sovay]

Megagoat!!

Evolution is so cool.

and I like the Catalogue of Ships as an apotropaic retinue of dead heroes instead of an army of cheap shabtis; it makes much more sense than the other takes I'd seen.

Thank you! If it was placed inside the wrappings like a funerary papyrus, I see no reason not to assume it was meant to function like one.

[gwynnega]

I love that Catalogue of Ships / mummy news.

[sovay]

I love that Catalogue of Ships / mummy news.

I can add a Carthaginian Pegasus, although it is not quite as cool in the underworld epic department.

[gwynnega]

That is pretty great.