a little moment of surreality for y'alls....

In a fit of ambition a while back i joined the Old English Mailing List, an oldschool group-emailing thing (ENGLISC).

I get periodic emails with things like questions about verb declensions and how to type the higher-order characters on various keyboards and the like.

Sometimes, however, the emails are about nothing so straightforwardly Old English-related as all that.


I actually found this article quite interesting, so i'm sharing it, but i think the context in which the link was presented is quite amusing as well.

Ic fand tidunga fram BBC, thaet segth thaet seo sunne wearmath tha eorthan, and thaet tha sunnanspeccan sind aet 1,000 geara-heahpice, and thaet macath tha eorthan wearmra thonne beforan. Tha tidunga sind aet http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3869753.stm
 

Wow. Sunnanspeccan. The eorthan is being wearmath by the sunne. That's some tidunga.


I still don't know any Old English, but at least I'm entertained.

Buffalo weekend

Had a double dose of Buffalo regional uniqueness this weekend.
Saturday night Dave and I saw Shakespeare in the Park.

It was good-- Henry IV pt. 1-- 25-man broadsword fight, highly entertaining. I enjoyed it. We drank Arbor Mist and ate DiBella's subs, and watched the couples around us making out. (Yes. Falstaff shouting for a cup of sack is the perfect setting for my makeouts. And dozens of people pretending to slaughter one another bloodily-- gets me totally horny. Sure.)

And today we went to Taste of Buffalo.

Picture, if you will, several city blocks, blocked to vehicular traffic, and given over to booths. Each of these booths is manned by a local restaurant. Each booth offers three separate dishes, costing between three and one dollars apiece.
And that's it.
The portions are small, and you roam along and get one of everything that appeals to you.

I had coconut-almond citrus shrimp, i had chicken gumbo, I had bananas foster, I had handmade waffle cones (watched the guy making the waffles), I had fried calamari, I had jerk chicken, I had chocolate and peanut-butter coated waffles, I had ... i don't even remember. And I wasn't particularly full at the end. I just had a little of everything. Just a taste of Buffalo.

It's a cool festival.

No, there weren't many wings. That's later, labor day weekend I think-- the Buffalo Chicken Wing Festival. :)