GOD I AM SO THICK
Dec. 21st, 2007 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gogmagog...you know, I am ashamed that it took me this long to come up with the perfect title for my seminar paper, which as I've mentioned before is about the results of medieval English identification with the biblical bogeymen Gog and Magog. Everything I was coming up with was Middle English quotations from the texts I was using that honestly aren't that interesting. The title I'd finally come up with and resigned myself to using, reluctantly, was “'None swiche neuer in no kyngriche': Gog, Magog, and English Anti-Semitism at the Margins of the Medieval World." The subtitle is fine, but the quote is just kind of boring. D:
If you're wondering what the quote means in modern English, it's basically "Never such in any other kingdom," as in "You shall never find such in any other kingdom."
And then five minutes ago I had a brainstorm. I ALREADY KNOW A PERFECT TITLE, DUH, WHAT TOOK ME SO LONG
The new title? “Sympathy for the Devil: Gog, Magog, and English Anti-Semitism at the Margins of the Medieval World." :D
Okay I know it's kind of pathetic I'm getting all excited about the perfect title for a paper, SHUT UP I KNOW I'M A DORK
Anyway, in other paper news, I'm at the restructuring stage...I'm expanding my opening a bit and moving things around so it makes a bit more sense. But really all the actual main writing and argument is done, except for the conclusion! (Which is always last for me, anyway.) I'm hoping to turn it in about 2 or 3, and then somehow before the end of the day I need to finish grading and also head out to the mall to get presents for my stepmother, older brother, younger stepbrother, and baby half-brother, since I won't get in to Kansas City until like midnight on Saturday night and my stepmom is doing her Christmas thing with us on Sunday evening. IF I DON'T BUY STUFF NOW THEN IT WON'T GET BOUGHT. (Well, actually, I probably will do SOME shopping on Sunday with Bubs - he's famous for his last-minute shopping for pretty much EVERYONE, and I usually save some of mine to do with him. It just happens that since classes went so late this year, I've got a little more than usual to do last-minute. XD I'll probably buy stuff for Lance at least when I'm with him, just because most good kids' toys tend to be bulky and if I bought them before I left, would take up lots of space in my luggage on the bus ride home.)
But since there's so little time between when I get home and Christmas, it's looking like I won't be able to get together with any of my WC peeps before Christmas; will any of y'all be in town and available in the time between Christmas and New Year's, or is everybody spending that time out of town/with family and stuff?
Finally, I will end with a few links. First Fred Phelps and co. rewrites "We are the World" as "God Hates the World." It's not news, really, but the end kind of horrified me. I think Neil Gaiman summed it up best on his blog:
Well, actually, I'm also fascinated by the idea of a God who is so consumed with disgust with humanity for, amongst other things, not universally making homosexuality a capital crime, that he would, literally, hate the world (except for about 60 people, and a really cute, scary baby girl). And the idea of a group for whom every disaster, natural or manmade, happening to anybody, is a visible, magical, literal demonstration of their rightness and God's hatred for the world.
So, that probably left a bad taste in your mouth, right? Clearly, what you need is Jake Gyllenhaal on SNL singing "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"...IN DRAG. SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK, GUYS, WHY DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS BEFORE YESTERDAY? ALSO GODDAMN BUT THAT IS KIND OF A NOTE-PERFECT VERSION, WHY ARE YOU SO HILARIOUSLY AWESOME JAKEY G
If you're wondering what the quote means in modern English, it's basically "Never such in any other kingdom," as in "You shall never find such in any other kingdom."
And then five minutes ago I had a brainstorm. I ALREADY KNOW A PERFECT TITLE, DUH, WHAT TOOK ME SO LONG
The new title? “Sympathy for the Devil: Gog, Magog, and English Anti-Semitism at the Margins of the Medieval World." :D
Okay I know it's kind of pathetic I'm getting all excited about the perfect title for a paper, SHUT UP I KNOW I'M A DORK
Anyway, in other paper news, I'm at the restructuring stage...I'm expanding my opening a bit and moving things around so it makes a bit more sense. But really all the actual main writing and argument is done, except for the conclusion! (Which is always last for me, anyway.) I'm hoping to turn it in about 2 or 3, and then somehow before the end of the day I need to finish grading and also head out to the mall to get presents for my stepmother, older brother, younger stepbrother, and baby half-brother, since I won't get in to Kansas City until like midnight on Saturday night and my stepmom is doing her Christmas thing with us on Sunday evening. IF I DON'T BUY STUFF NOW THEN IT WON'T GET BOUGHT. (Well, actually, I probably will do SOME shopping on Sunday with Bubs - he's famous for his last-minute shopping for pretty much EVERYONE, and I usually save some of mine to do with him. It just happens that since classes went so late this year, I've got a little more than usual to do last-minute. XD I'll probably buy stuff for Lance at least when I'm with him, just because most good kids' toys tend to be bulky and if I bought them before I left, would take up lots of space in my luggage on the bus ride home.)
But since there's so little time between when I get home and Christmas, it's looking like I won't be able to get together with any of my WC peeps before Christmas; will any of y'all be in town and available in the time between Christmas and New Year's, or is everybody spending that time out of town/with family and stuff?
Finally, I will end with a few links. First Fred Phelps and co. rewrites "We are the World" as "God Hates the World." It's not news, really, but the end kind of horrified me. I think Neil Gaiman summed it up best on his blog:
Well, actually, I'm also fascinated by the idea of a God who is so consumed with disgust with humanity for, amongst other things, not universally making homosexuality a capital crime, that he would, literally, hate the world (except for about 60 people, and a really cute, scary baby girl). And the idea of a group for whom every disaster, natural or manmade, happening to anybody, is a visible, magical, literal demonstration of their rightness and God's hatred for the world.
So, that probably left a bad taste in your mouth, right? Clearly, what you need is Jake Gyllenhaal on SNL singing "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"...IN DRAG. SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK, GUYS, WHY DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS BEFORE YESTERDAY? ALSO GODDAMN BUT THAT IS KIND OF A NOTE-PERFECT VERSION, WHY ARE YOU SO HILARIOUSLY AWESOME JAKEY G
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Date: 2007-12-22 04:18 pm (UTC)I have a couple songs like that, that sound kind of normal until you actually listen to the lyrics.
i'm not sayin', i'm just sayin'...
Date: 2007-12-22 05:14 pm (UTC)Re: i'm not sayin', i'm just sayin'...
Date: 2008-01-07 06:56 am (UTC)