My mate Lisa crafts blogging goodness:
The Gearwork Nest: A catalogue of recent personal events.
13.2.10
Catherynne Valente on Valentines Day as told by Chaucer
One of my favorite bits:
Valentine's Day, boys and girls, entered the Western mind in Chaucer's Parlement of Foules, fully-realized as a day to celebrate love via an obscure saint, with red hearts and everything. Yes, celebrated in an allegorical bird-nation, but guess what? That makes it even more awesome. I will take a holiday my buddy Geoff invented over almost any other. If I had my way, we'd start exchanging bird-themed gifts and ditch Cupid.
This is a great holiday. It's pure physical, sensual pleasure, divorced from any dogma at this point. Saint whatever. Pass the sex and food.
That definitely makes it more awesome. Exponentially.
4.2.10
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