Holy Tango of Literature

From Miss Conduct.

In Holy Tango of Literature (holy tango is an anagram of anthology) Francis Heaney creates anagrams of famous poets' and playwrights' names, and then writes parodies of their works based on those anagrams.

I'm not a huge poetry fan, but I know that many of you on my flist are and it seemed that this would be right up your alley, enjoy!

can I raid your toychest?

I'm working on an architecture lecture and I'm realizing that it would be a lot easier if I could demo with some blocks.

Does anyone (local I suppose) have some blocks I could borrow in a couple weeks?

Nothing complicated just a few rectangular ones for post-and-lintel, and then 4-6 of the half-arch ones so I can talk about arch construction and the necessity of flying buttresses (pointed arches would also be cool for Gothic, but are those parts of normal block sets?)

Actually I'm writing on the Hagia Sophia so if you have a Hagia Sophia block set.... Kidding, but that would be really damn cool.

eta well of course I started looking for a Hagia Sophia block set (didn't find one). But then I thought it might be cool to show an image of the Hagia Sophia in legos. How can there not be a picture of this? Certainly someone must have built it in legos??? And if you built the Hagia Sophia in lego wouldn't you post it on the internet? That (and porn) is what the internet is for!!!

Even this dude who did an awesome version of the Dome of the Rock hasn't done the Hagia Sophia. What gives? No love for Istanbul? (You should totally check out the other stuff that guy has made, like the Taj Mahal with the reflecting pool).

because the car/penis metaphor wasn't overt enough for you

I'm not usually offended by other people's tacky clothing/decoration/automotive choices. At least they add some color and personality to the world. And don't cars really need some more personality? All white and tan and blah. Where are the orange cars? The bright blue cars?

What I don't need to see, what offended me for three blocks, what were hanging below the PIMPDDY license plate were these.

Are.You.Freakin.Kidding.Me.

I have great breasts but do you see me adorning the corolla with car tits? Maybe that what need to do manufacture a line of car nipples you can add to your windshield or door handles or something.

What is the world coming to! (Geez I must be getting old.)

we love xkcd

In case you haven't had your RDA of in-jokes here's a We Love xkcd. This is a live action version of the xkcd strip based on the awesome Discovery Channel commercial.