“IN PRE-RETROSPECT THIS WAS A BAD IDEA BUT WE’RE DOING IT ANYWAY.” Pure poetry. Read more

CANTERBURY TALES BOARD GAME. This seemed like the sort of thing you people might like! Via Mark Shea. Read more

FLAILING: Can someone tell me how to be able to type in Cyrillic? I’m on a MacBook, running OpenOffice word processing software, and I have tried switching the language to Russian but all that does is make everything fail the spellcheck. Your reward, which you receive in advance: Irina Slutskaya as Catwoman. You’re welcome. Read more

“CHINESE PRISONERS ALLEGEDLY FORCED TO PLAY ‘WORLD OF WARCRAFT.’“ Via Ratty. Read more

NOW THIS IS POOR BUT HONEST. “And if the new job doesn’t work out after you bet all of your chips, you’re triple fucked. And at that point the world will wag its finger at you and tell you how irresponsible it was to move when you were so poor. ‘Ha, you poor people are always doing stupid shit like that!’“ Cracked.com, so obviously the language and imagery are quite rough, but I am a huge fan of John Cheese... Read more

ELSEWHERE: Figured I’d tell you all about a couple of new/relaunched blogs. First, you may already have noticed The Groom’s Family on the blogroll. This is a blog dedicated to exploring the relationship between Judaism and Christianity, from the perspective of a Jewish convert to Orthodox Christianity. Hey TGF, this is your reminder that you promised to lend me Doubly Chosen: Jewish Identity, the Soviet Intelligentsia, and the Russian Orthodox Church, by Judith Kornblatt, when you finished it! Gimme. And... Read more

UPDATE: The director’s commentary for Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains is really unnecessary, but the actresses’ commentary track is adorable. Read more

HEY, JOE, I’M ALREADY THERE: Have you ever wanted to watch a John Hughes movie in which the Sex Pistols are played by Bikini Kill? Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains! Look, it really is a John Hughes movie at its heart, so there are cartoonish racial/ethnic things which are clearly meant to parallel the class and sexual exploitation the moviemakers really understand, and which are therefore kind of attempts at empathy but which come across as gross funhouse mirrors.... Read more

“FOR MANY BLACKS, THERE’S ONLY ONE BIBLE, AND IT’S THE KJV”: On Sundays, C. Elizabeth Floyd, shows up for worship at Trinity Baptist Church of Metro Atlanta, with her Bible in hand. But the large, black leather Bible with dog-eared pages and hand-written notes in the margins isn’t just any Bible: It’s the King James Version. And Floyd, like many African-Americans, wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s more than mere tradition. A civil rights veteran called the KJV’s thees... Read more

“NOW I’M A LAMP.” A couple cheap or obvious ones, but most of these are great. Via TKB. Read more