“The hero turned/ And thru his gold hair still the sunset burned/ But half his shaded face was grey”

[larryhammer]

A bit here, a piece here, and pretty soon it starts adding up to real linkage.

Photograph portraits of Star Wars characters and superheroes as 16th-century Flemish paintings.

A gallery of wet and generally grumpy about it owls. (via?)

On acceptable spellings of Hanukkah from a linguistics standpoint. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from The Earthly Paradise, Bellerophon in Lycia, William Morris.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Owls clearly do NOT like being wet!

Great pics! :o)

I've always used Chanukah, largely because I first ran into it spelled that way many moons ago.

[larryhammer]

I cannot blame the owls.

[sovay]

On acceptable spellings of Hanukkah from a linguistics standpoint.

Truly, this is why we need Tumblr not to die.

[larryhammer]

That would require corporate overlords who can see commercial possibilities in the service.