- Carnivalesque XLI has arrived at xoom
- Elvis was alive in late antiquity, and he left a stone effigy to prove it
- The Chaucer Blog has been replaced by "GEOFFREY CHAUCER HATH AN EXTREME BLOG: GO ENGLAND! IT YS RAD!" Favorite line: "Go to Canterburye and light yowerself a clue candle."
- Titans are clashing at Humanities Researcher (a post that gets at the human feelings that we often forget about when we compose our "disembodied" reviews and critiques)
- Dr Virago gives her version of the incident of the purloined credit card. It is rather different from the kleptomania I recall
- This monstrous CFP (MEARCSTAPA sessions for Kzoo 2009) will interest many readers.
- Leeds 2009 has its CFP up; proposals due by August 31
- Had I been able to spend a little longer in London, I would have gone to the British Museum's Hadrian exhibit, which opens today. I'm also sorry to have missed this one at the Wellcome Collection, on the skeletons beneath the city.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Nota Bene
by J J Cohen
I, too, would have loved to be able to make it out to London while the Hadrian exhibit is on. However, I'm glad that the Babylon exhibit will be on when I'm next in the UK; I've been told that the myths pertaining to Babylonia, namely the Tower of Babel and the Hanging Gardens, will be explored as part of this exhibition.
ReplyDeleteOh, speaking of the Tower of Babel, it was front and centre on the front cover of The Economist last week. I wish I had bought a copy - if I recall correctly, it had to do with the US economy and its current state.
ReplyDeleteWoops. It's regarding international governance, actually. It's on the cover of the 5 July issue. The link is here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=11670305