Slogging Toward Ecstacy…Tuesday Open Thread

I love A Knight's Tale. It is a near-perfect Flick. Funny. Great soundtrack. All-Star cast (Heath Ledger, Alan Tudyk, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell, and the criminally-underappreciated Shannyn Sossamon). But the whole thing is stolen by Paul Bettany as Geoffrey Chaucer, starting here: For there is something inherently noble about trudging! Like the

Poink! Tuesday Open Thread

I killed a man today. I didn't mean to. Well, that's not quite accurate. I meant to do him grievous bodily harm; to paraphrase blues legend R.L. Burnside, him dying was between him and the Lord.* But I sure wasn't too broken up about his mortal coil choosing to shuffle off a bit