Immune Linky

Baby Willa has had 3-month immunisation jabs this morning. All good. Some concentrated linky to immunise you against the internets:

From the Alligator: now this is a boot

For the Alligator, and everyone else with impeccable taste: Where’s Randy Savage?

Now here is a Liz Taylor movie I would sit down to watch: The Drivers Seat (1974). Knifeman, I presume you have heard of this film? Viewing party!

Recycling a bottle, flashmob style:

And a social norm breaking experiment that is also basically a flashmob (I will restrain myself from talking at length about how this is a dumb way to do a normbreaking learning exercise):

The British Library is collecting and recording children’s games from around the world – another wonderful resource from the BL who do amazing stuff, and I hope they don’t lose much capacity under the Cameron govt…

Via Hamish Ritchie, all the spoilers (um, spoilers for everything)

Via David Ritchie, Withnail & I meets Star Wars

An appreciation of Bulwer-Lytton, whose name is now on that ghastly bad-first-lines contest, poor devil.

On The Fundy Post, an island that’s basically straight out of Lovecraft. (Cthulhu gamers, here is your next adventure setting.)

The great Milton Bradley boardgame Heroquest, as a free-download computer game.

And finally… please forgive me… the YOGA FARMER

8 thoughts on “Immune Linky”

  2. In my head, that happens every time I recycle.

    Also, in my head, there’s pyro and loud rock music every time I enter a room.

  3. A: I ask myself, “where is Savage” every damn night.

    B: I have been emotionally sodomized by the Yoga Farmer. Thanks.

  4. If you like what the BL is doing with children’s games, I strongly recommend Peter and Iona Opie’s “The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren.” It is some 50 years old now, but it’s still in print (you remember print. Yes you *do*). The fact that the Opies did the collection during the 1950s means that it captures national and regional subcultures before they gave way to mass-media homogenisation: even for someone whose schooldays were only a couple of decades later, it feels like a vanished, eerie world.

    Delightful review at http://profswife.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/the-lore-and-language-of-schoolchildren-book-review/ if you’re interested.

  5. Oh. My. God!

    C3-PO as Withnail – that’s GENIUS!!!

    And Vader as Uncle Monty, a camp and lunatic rambler… I think I may have met myself.

    Best link of the week, and I’m going to steal it NOW. Thanks Morgue!

  6. [yep, notification of comments is definitely broken. Weird.]

    I’m sorry for the yoga farmer everyone.

    Ivan: I’ve heard of this book for years, but never sought out a copy. Will definitely read that review, cheers.

  7. Yoga Farmer!!! Vader and I!!!!

    Also “I have to have an orgasm a day on my macrobiotic diet” What a chat up line!! OMG, that movie looks ridiculous!

  8. Okay… benefits of calming down again: the above should be “I think I may have WET myself”, not “met’ myself. Quite a different reading in one letter’s difference. 🙂

    Also, bravo to you guys and Willa for the three-month jabs. Jabs can be scary and fraught things. Jet Jr had a febrile seizure from the first half of last year’s dodgy anti-Flu jab, but despite the scare we went ahead with the second jab and subsequent Imms as well. This year’s one went without a bang or even (literally) a whimper.

Comments are closed.