What the Fork is WRONG With People??? 0.o

Okay, today has already used up its quota of stoopid. From the guy who blithely swerved around people who were stopped at red lights so that he could just go on through and damn the oncoming traffic, to the people driving on the wrong side of the road, to the landscaping truck randomly stopped in the middle of the lane, all I can think is that the heat and humidity has boiled everybody's brain.

lythandra and I have a very, very short commute! It's got no business being this stressful!!!

Gah!

-The Gneech

Happy Birthday, djarums!

For your present, here's today's Forgotten English!

shrumpsed
Beaten in games; Devonshire.

--James Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1855

The Cotswold Games
There lived at that time [early 1600s] at Burton-on-the-Heath in Warwickshire, one Robert Dover, an attorney, who entertained rather strong views of the menacing character of Puritanism. He deemed it a public enemy, and was eager to put it down. Seizing upon the idea of the Cotswold meeting, he resolved to enlarge and systematize it into a regular gathering of all with leaping and wrestling, as before for the men, and dancing for the maids, but with the addition of coursing and horse-racing for the upper classes.

--W.& R. Chambers's Book of Days, 1864

The games were originally held about this time during Whit week in 1612 but were suspended for nearly a century, between 1853 and 1951, in part due to the riotous crowds they attracted. Today an annual revival known as Robert Dover's Cotswold Olympick Games, featuring athletic contests, pageantry, music, and fireworks, is held in Chipping Camden, Gloucestershire, on the first Friday evening after England's spring bank holiday.

He was a man who knew what's what, was Robert Dover.

-The Gneech

Balticon Photos!

Courtesy of tchall. Thanks, shrinkyfox!

( Click for digitized goodness! )

Enjoy!

-The Gneech

RadioGeekboy

graveyardgreg tells me he's DJing tonight! Check him out here:

http://www.lt3m.com/listen.m3u

He's not too shabby. Take a listen!

EDIT: Then go to his website and make a request! It'll make him happy. ;)

EDIT AGAIN: Alas, the Geekboy has left the building. But it was fun while it lasted.

-The Gneech

Are You a Writer?

Then you should be reading Miss Snark, the literary agent!

Courtesy of officialgaiman.

-The Gneech