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20 Worst Engrish ever

Indeed.

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Why did the fictional chicken cross the road?

Not seen this version before.

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Christopher Walken Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven


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Владимир Набоков

The Russian library’s Vladimir Nabokov collection. The interviews are transcribed in English. You’ll find them by going to the bottom of the page and then scrolling up.

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Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe

Index of texts.

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Finnish Graffiti

Seen on a campingsite toilet wall in Tornio, 28. July 2007.
Hiljaa jössä on teppo työssä
kuni vinkuu ja ida hinkuu
yks kaks kol nel
ja vähän spermaa lattialle
ja sängyn alle
kissa nuolee ja äiti kuolee
Finnish is of a different language family from the languages I understand; even so, there lurks in the rhyme one word I recognise as a [...]

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A Database Solution to Online Bibliographies

Sharon at Early Modern Notes tells us of her positive experiences with WikIndx, “a free bibliographic and quotations/notes management and article authoring system designed either for single use (on a variety of operating sytems) or multi-user collaborative use across the internet.”
Now that she has gone through the trouble of finding out how to use such [...]

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Table of Experimental and Playful Poetic Forms

Does what it says on the box.

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Chaucer Pubbe Gagge

Bill Bailey imitates Chaucer

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With Hidden Noise

WithHiddenNoise: An online story about the theft of one of Marcel Duchamp’s readymades.

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