"Snow sliding off some wall-like precipice, / And voice of spirits passing through the night"

[larryhammer]

A few awesome things:

Trailer for Shake the Dust, a documentary about breakdancers from the slums of Uganda, Yemen, Cambodia, and Colombia. Seriously good moves on show. (via)

Congressman John Lewis cosplaying as himself at ComiCon. (via)

"Sea-Fever" by Arthur Guiterman, plus the Masefield poem it parodies.

---L.

Subject quote from "Night," George Gilfillan.

Comments

[med_cat]

Oh, hello, Larry, I didn't know you liked poetry as well as vocabulary ;)

[larryhammer]

Sometimes I even commit poetry.

---L.

[med_cat]

I saw ;) And translate Japanese poems--I'm impressed :)

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor queasy Masefield!

I hadn't come across that wonderful parody before, only the Spike Milligan version:

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and sky;
I left my shoes and socks there - I wonder if they're dry?

[larryhammer]

LOL!

[med_cat]

Haha, good one ;)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that link on hip hop!

[larryhammer]

Tasty, isn't it?

---L.

[sovay]

Congressman John Lewis cosplaying as himself at ComiCon.

That is excellent. Thank you.

"Sea-Fever" by Arthur Guiterman, plus the Masefield poem it parodies.

That is also excellent. I really love people being snarky at the time. Parody was not invented by the internet.

[larryhammer]

Have you met The Brand-X Anthology of Poetry? Many of the parodies are by contemporaries (it's organized by the poet being parodied). Plus, yanno, lots of excellent snark in general with bonus zings at the Norton Anthology manner.

---L.