Random: Ooh! Shiny!

[nebroadwe]

Even more pictures of the Staffordshire hoard, available here. This stuff will be keeping graduate students busy for years. (I'm still waiting for the Staffordshire wyrm to wake up and notice it's all gone, though. I mean, what better way for Queen Elizabeth II to end her reign than with a dragon fight?)

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[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

OOOOO shiny. I hadn't seen this shot of the hoard

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Teresa Nielsen-Hayden recommends this article (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/sep/24/staffordshire-anglo-saxon-gold-find) in The Guardian for some context.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

very cool. i'll send this to Dad

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I can't wait for the wyrm to come up. Yesh. Yesh. :D

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

And the queen goes out to face it with her specially-forged Kevlar shield ...

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

And Spear and Maaaaaagic Helmet. :D

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Pfft. Magic Helmet.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Spear and Maaaaaagic Helmet!!!

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Ow! E-flat! E-flat!

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Oops, sorry, don't know my own strength. *cough*

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

'Sokay -- I'm a choir veteran. [reaches for Advil bottle]

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

*snicker* And to think, all those years pining for voice lessons, gone to waste.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

It's never too late to learn and annoy the neighbors, like Bugs Bunny and the opera singer! :-)

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Knowing my luck, the drummer who recently moved in would ask me to come and jam. :D

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Next thing, you'd be putting on a show in the barn, being scouted for a record contract, and the rest would be history!

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Oh, great - and Atty would expect me to have her kids (the budding musicians) included in MY band.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Ah, but see -- you'll already be rich and famous (having practiced in secret for your debut with your drummer neighbor), and can have your people tell Atty's new victim personal assistant secretary that Atty should go soak her head. Heh.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

and can have your people tell Atty's new victim personal assistant secretary that Atty should go soak her head

*can't breathe from giggling so hard*