Valentine’s Day is a Christian corruption of a pagan festival involving werewolves, blood and ****ing. So wish people a happy Horny Werewolf Day and see what happens.
– Warren Ellis
Wikipedia has more detail on the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia, but it’s wikipedia, so it might have been written this morning by some Warren Ellis fans as a joke.
(obscenity asterisked out for people’s work filters, in case you were wondering)
Awoooooooooo!!!
Certainly I think the blood and fucking were gone from the Lupercalia long before Christianity came along and “changed” it – and likewise I’m sure that if someone wanted to produce propaganda of “decadence” about Christians, they’d say that Saint Valentine’s Day was also about blood and fucking. And then, for whatever religion had replaced and assimilated Christianity, we could get all romantic about this antique religion called Christianity which had this festival of blood and fucking called Saint Valentine’s Day.
I’m confused is it: reading; writing; resting; singing; dancing; fleeing; hearing; beating; yelling; bowling; batting?
Stop stressing me you horrid wee thing.
Mushy Lizard: Bowling. As in petanque. Hell yeah those werewolfs went wild for that stuff.
(Andrew: Ellis was being deliberately silly, but point taken.)
oh no. now i suspect my valetine, which was fucking awesome, may have been giving you the wrong signal.
I werewolves.
Like warren zevon.
You mean dead?