that one playlist from May 2026, some bits

• Sofi Tukker - "Fuck They"
• Mountain Goats - "Rain in Soho" (oh-ohohohoh) 

Hana Videen - "Wordhord"

Great book about Old English, from roughly 500AD to 1150AD.

 

þ, "thorn", was pronounced as "th", so "the" was "þe". Scribes often used "y" instead of þ, to the point where printers would shorten "the" to "þe". This got forgotten, then strangely resurfaced when in the 17th century "ye olde"... became fake archaic English. 

 

How "miniatures" that monks drew, have nothing to do with their size, but the "minium" colour that was used for them. 

Susan Cooper - "The Dark is Rising"

Supposedly religiously reread by a few thousand folks around Christmas.

Second book in a series. Didn't read the rest. Finished in a day.

Was alright. Bit too straightforward, but a good enough story. 

The Old Ones, Merriman, fight the Dark (The Rider, the Walker, who felt betrayed by Merriman, support Will Stanton, seventh of seventh son, who is the "final" Old One, getting the six marks, circles quartered by a cross.