Are you talking about philosophy or the committee?

[sovay]

And courtesy of shweta_narayan, the webcomic that ate my life yesterday: Family Man. The Enlightenment! Judaism! University politics! Theological debates! In-jokes about Ovid! In-jokes about Rousseau! Careful research of taxonomically appropriate pine trees! Our half-Jewish protagonist just tried to defend a dissertation on Spinoza at Göttingen in 1768. The werewolves at his new lectureship are the least of his problems.

In the meantime, Kate Beaton has been reviewed by The Economist.

I am not doing anything near that interesting today. I still have this book, though.

Comments

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

I can't put my finger on one thing that actually sounds stuffed-shirty, I must admit. It's more to do with the very task Prospero has undertaken--reviewing funny stuff and explaining what makes it so funny. Whenever anyone tries to quantify the things that make them laugh, no matter how straightforward the laugh may be, they always seem to make it sound unnecessarily complex. Such as I'm doing now, trying to explain why I laughed at Prospero. Oh, well, it's late at night.

Really I'm ignoring the wonderful thing, which is that Kate Beaton got a glowing review. More of this sort of thing!