#005: “I worship women. everybody should have one.”

Awesome stuff, courtesy of Wikipedia:
Snacktime!, the new BNL kids’ album. I was skeptical at first, but the fact that there’s a track wih Can-rock heroes (and Barenaked Kidlets) talkin’ about their favourite snacks is enough of a selling point. Bitchin’ list:
- Geddy Lee, barbecue potato chips
- Harland Williams, blueberry pie
- David Suzuki, sembei (some kind of rice thing)
- Gordon Downie, peanut butter & crackers
- “Weird Al” Yankovic, honey roasted peanuts
- Gordon Lightfoot, pasta

The Nac Mac Feegle, the tiny, belligerent heroes of Terry Pratchett’s Wee Free Men novels:
KNOWN FEEGLES:
Horace the Cheese: A large, ambulatory Lancre Blue cheese, made by Tiffany. Horace was made a member of the Chalk Clan in Wintersmith and now sports their tartan. At one point, he attempts to sing Row, Row, Row Your Boat along with the Feegles, but, being a cheese, all he can manage to sing is, “Mnamnamnam”

William Topaz McGonagall, arguably the worst poet to ever manipulate the English language:
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.
…
In 1892, following the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, he walked from Dundee to Balmoral, a distance of about 60 miles over mountainous terrain and through a violent thunderstorm, “wet to the skin”, to ask Queen Victoria if he might be considered for the post of Poet Laureate. Unfortunately, he was informed the Queen was not in residence, and returned home.
Bonus: the Wiki article on McGonagall’s life ends with a veritable who’s who of so-bad-it’s-good, including Ed Wood, Wesley Willis, William Hung, and Vogon poetry.

Unrelatedly, I’m going to see Bob Dylan on Monday.