Pop Singer Rihanna Revealed as Zeus-Worshipping Pagan!

Details at 11 -- or just check out this brilliant bit of 'hermeneutics' by sannion.

This post was inspired by reading one too many scholar take an obscure fragment and contort bizarre, complicated, and improbable meanings from it, seeming deriving his knowledge from his ass. If they can do it, why can't I?


And from a note in comments to the above entry, did you know that Winne The Pooh was actually written by Merlin and is an allegory about Celtic religion? Christopher Robin is "undoubtedly" the Green Man -- and Kanga and Roo are "Modron and Mabon, the archetypal mother and son."

After years of reading bad "scholarship" which takes fragmentary, evocative texts and fills in the gaps with naive leaps of association, gluing them together with phrases like "it's clear" and "undoubtedly" and "we can easily assume" these bits of fancy do my heart good.

Brent Spiner Asks Patrick Stewart a Question at a Con

Unbeknownst to Stewart, Brent Spiner is in the audience at a convention appearance, and he gets in the Q&A line. . . .