Procrastination time is coming to an end...

... so why am I spending time blogging? (Anactoria, are you out there?)

Because I have a paper to write. By 1 pm on Saturday when I have to stand up in front of a group of history professors from around the country and read it.

But I am making progress. Just today I checked the conference program on the computer to see exactly what I am writing on: "Chariot Warfare and its Effects on Europe." That's a mistake btw, it should read "Chariot Warfare and its Effects on Eurasia" - no sense limiting the topic. And I've checked out the book I am going to shamelessly plagiarize ... no, make that brilliantly reformulate ... for my paper.

And while I don't know much about chariot warfare in the late Bronze Age, I know a great deal more about it than the guys who will be there this Saturday. Unless Robert Drews shows up - then I'm dead.

Great kung-fu movie characters: AUNT ABACUS!

Years ago Camen and I watched a hilarious kung-fu epic callen Wing Chun, mainly because it had caused a stir at a local lesbian film festival.

Since there isn't a lot to do here in Lykesboro on a Monday night when you can only pick up one TV station, we had enough time on our hands tonight to start remembering our favorite character - the notorious Aunt Abacus! She was a succesful tofu manufacturer and business woman known as the fastest abacus in the East. She had her own gold plated abacus about the size of her hand. Because she ran the tofu factory her breath was affected and she was known as "Stinky Tofu Breath." This disability prevented her from being married.

Now keep in mind that she was one of the secondary characters in this little epic of tofu, martial arts, attempted rape and cross dressing. In fact, treat yourself to a look at the whole plot - take notes and discuss quietly among yourselves. First person who fully understands the plot and can recite it in Urdu will win a prize (to be determined)

Wing Chun by the way is played by Michellel Yeoh. She specializes in humiliating all the males who come into contact with her trying to pull some illicit hanky panky. Which, it being Michelle Yeoh, means the entire male population of several prefectures.

Anyway, check the review, and if you have a chance watch the video.