Satire

The Onion is one of my favorite satirical news reports. I believe it is strictly an internet news report, but they have a DVD out and this is a clip from said movie:

Rape of the Lock

I must say, I was not impressed by this story. I read the introduction to it and expected it to be all sorts of humorous, which it may have been, but the way it was written was just so slow and dry that i did not catch it the first time around. I suppose the main reason why is because I have never been a fan of British Literature so I wasn't very interested in the story in the first place. I did have a few questions, though:

Who is Clarissa? Why did she cut Belinda's hair? Out of jealousy?

What is the significance of the Baron? Is he a/the love interest of Belinda?

The last verse of Canto 3 is talking about how steel has destroyed all matter of things and the lines couple of lines are talking about Belinda's severed hair. Does this mean that Belinda has been destroyed by the loss of her beauty via her cut hair?

I also found some stuff on that "Ombre" card game Belinda and the Baron are playing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ombre

Coffee House Article

The article was interesting to me. I did not know how long the coffee houses have been around; I always just assumed it was a recent discovery (not coffee, of course, but the hangout spot of the coffee house). Anyways, I didn't really have any "burning" questions or much to say about the article. It makes a lot of sense that if anyone made a scene, they would have to pay for everyone's drinks, now if only those rules were still around since one of my skills is annoying the crap out of people. As short and lame of a "blogging" this is, it is about all I have to say on this matter.

Currently watching: Land of the Dead