Mike Flynn Continues to Impress

Turns out he’s the author of the immortal verse, “There’s a Bimbo on the Cover of My Book” (sung to the tune of “She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain When She Comes”):

There’s a bimbo on the cover of my book,
There’s a bimbo on the cover of my book,
She is blonde and she is sexy,
She is nowhere in the text, She
is the bimbo on the cover of my book

There’s a dragon on the cover of my book,
There’s a dragon on the cover of my book,
He is big and green and scaly
He is nowhere in the tale, he
Is the dragon on the cover of my book.

There’s a castle on the cover of my book,
There’s a castle on the cover of my book,
It is strong and fit for battle, though
the settings in…..Seattle?
There’s a castle on the cover of my book……

Dunno if there are more verses, but I do know you can find this valuable contribution to American letters here:

Also, Flynn notices something that I’ve noticed too: namely, that when you have the coldest winter in ages or record snowfall and express some dubiousness about climate change, you are told “Weather isn’t climate”. But when you have a bunch of tornado make it the worst tornado year since 1953, all of a sudden weather is climate. As he puts it:

When is Weather Really Climate?

Ans. When it is bad weather. Just as global warming has been blamed for the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, so too it has been blamed for the recent spate of deadly tornadoes in tornado alley.

It is especially telling when the headlines report: the deadliest year for tornadoes since 1953; because what that means is that it was deadlier in 1953, before “global warming” is said to have begun. (We were well into global cooling at that time, but it would be another decade or so before people began to notice and worry.)

Everything proves climate change and anything that doesn’t is just weather, not climate.

Finally, while we are on the subject of skiffy and fantasy, the inimitable John C. Wright answers the musical question: What do you read after Tolkien? He also talks about Tolkien and Beowulf and, finally, what to read when you tire of Tolkien.