Unreal

This is just crazy. The cold is pouring through my window here. I'm about ready to haul out the big guns: My Blanket.

Next on the knitting front: Some fingerless gloves for the office.

I can't imagine what it must be like over in Smith Hall today. Ugh. Oh, the ad next to the story is for Morning Star Church--"Season of Expectation!". WTF. Yeah, expect a fucking assault.

Horrific weather, physical attacks on professors--we're already the laughingstock of the rational world. What next? I'm about ready to make a tee shirt:
KANSAS
There's no place like home
And for that, we're sincerely grateful


UPDATE: On a more upbeat note, here is your second, loosely connected WTF moment for the day. Erotic Bible Calendar (the URL in the story is broken, of course).

UPDATE 2: Some people have mentioned having trouble seeing the Journal World story. So, ( Archived here )

So well put. Of course. It's British.

Here is an excellent article from The Guardian that explains very well why I loved the Narnia books as a child, but can't bring myself to read them as an adult. I'm sure the movie is quite pretty, and I might rent it someday, but I won't be going to the theater to catch it.

FWIW, I can't read the Oz books anymore, either. While the social commentary and fetishization of little girls went totally over my head when I was ten, they're blatantly obvious now. I just can't get through them.

If you're curious, children's books that did stand the test of time for me: Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series and Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles. Solid good vs. evil stories without the irritating and cloying overtones.

UPDATE: OMG OMG OMG. My first volume of the Arabian Nights Just Arrived. Oh. Oh Oh Oh!!!! Opening it now!