…wow, that article hits a little too close to home.

The awful part is, a rap adaptation of Coriolanus would probably be awesome, in the right hands. Which emphatically would not be attached to Steve Bannon. He writes the way racist white guys think black people talk.

Ray, when one doth ask thee if thou art divine, thou must needs say ay!

And there's no one there to raise them if you did.

Stickin' together is what good waffles do!

I just choked to death from simultaneous laughing and vomiting, thanks ever so much.

What about us brain-dead slobs?

Public transportation is for commies!

I always (well, since last week) assumed he wants to live in his own house because he's got plans for the presidential bedroom.

The singer Benjamin Bagby does a recitation of a sizable chunk of the poem (it only goes up to Beowulf's defeat of Grendel) in Old English, with harp accompaniment (and subtitles). It's fantastic, and parts of it are definitely on youtube, plus there's a DVD.

I've used the Heaney translation every time I taught Beowulf, and it's always gone over pretty well.

It's not irrelevant, it's a hippopotamus!

"Passed away" sets my teeth on edge, but I chalk that up to hearing one too many students use it in a class presentation to refer to someone who'd been dead for centuries.

The ornaments are the part that always got me. *shudder*

I mean, that's pretty much how Trump got elected.

Yeah, I had a lot of really good things happen to me this year — but because of the national and global garbage fire going on, I just kind of feel like I'm stealing all the happiness or something.

Yesterday a bunch of articles about Stevie Wonder turned up in my Apple News feed, which was pretty alarming. Turns out Slate is just running a special feature on him.

I'm rather fond of Cecil Hepworth's trick films Explosion of a Motor Car and How It Feels To Be Run Over.

I had a biology teacher in high school who would have his classes watch this every year and take a quiz on it. You'd get extra credit if you could recreate Snoopy's penguin impression (although nobody ever did. Teenage girls are very self-conscious).

And yet everyone's conservative mother gets all "They would never allow this today," as she watches a beloved classic special being rerun on network tv. Or maybe that's just mine.