I Do The Clerihew

No!  It Is Not A Dance
Given that Conrad would be lucky if he possessed two left feet, this is a given.
     No, a clerihew is a bit of nonsense rhyme, with the scheme AABB, normally about a famous person, divulging unusual or unknown or - let's be honest - completely made up information about that celebrity. So, here's a couple I made earlier -

Eric Arthur Blair

Wrote works of rank despair.

Still, they continue to sell.

He's thus done superlatively, or well.

     Ha!  Do you see what I did there?  Here's another one just to allow me to massage my own ego, because there's never anything in the Comments that does the job for me*.

Drinking tea - because he's British!

George Orwell

Couldn't smell.

This wasn't much of a handicap.

You don't need smell when you're a clever literary chap.

     Well, they make me laugh.

Mind you, so does this

"War And Agriculture In Classical Greece" By Victor Davis Hanson
I've finished the main body of the text here, all that remains is some updated Commentary.  Despite what you may think, this is interesting stuff, with VDH going against the previously-established view that devastation of crops and farms between the seventh and fourth centuries BC in Greece had a major impact.  Using original sources and a bit of extrapolation, as well as practical experience of growing stuff, he rather disproves the old view.

Classical Greek - er - "negotiations"

     What Conrad appreciates is VDH translating his Greek text into the Roman alphabet, as my Greek is very sketchy indeed.  Thus you get "dendrokopeo", which means "ravaging of fruit trees" notably olive or fig; or "phtheiro" which is plain and simple "Ravaging" which might mean trampling a crop flat or nicking someone's window-shutters.  It's a small touch yet a welcome one.

<Insert Greek joke here>

More Of The Flop House
Nope, I checked my bank balance and they're still not paying me anything.  Free promotion, guys, surely that counts for something?
     I mentioned yesterday that "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" is returning later this month after a 17 year hiatus, which is either laziness personified or they lost their pens.  I didn't realise yesterday, but guess who the new writer for the show will be?
     No!  Neither Poskrebyshev, nor Arne Saknussemm.  Eliott Kalan, who is one-third of The Flop House staff, that's who.

The petite yet perfectly-formed Eliott

     The talented little swine also works at Marvel comics, and The Daily Show.  Here's a link should you wish to know more, but be advised there are a couple of rude words present.  However, I feel I can trust you on this.

http://www.avclub.com/article/daily-shows-elliott-kalan-will-be-head-writer-new--237120

     There you go, more proof that everything is connected to everything else.

"Line Of Duty"
This is a British police procedural, focussing on the work carried out by undercover officers investigating corruption.  It's not half bad, although it does feature large numbers of police who are not only corrupt but murderous with it.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, the real official Police didn't give any help with it.  None of which has anything to do with what follows, as this is how we operate here.
    It's the creation of one Jed Mercurio, which I suspected when glancing at the credits where I only saw the name "Jed" before they scrolled on.  He's won lots of awards for his work, but the one I wanted to bring to light is "Invasion Earth".  Art?

Yes, that is Fred Ward

     I've got the official tie-in book in a cupboard somewhere.  As a series it is recognisably British, although it does feature Fred Ward as a senior NATO officer, not least because of the ending, which is unremittingly bleak - in order to deny alien interdimensional portals from harvesting Earth's resources (which includes you humans), the area around every emerging portal has to be destroyed.  With nuclear weapons.  Cue end of series.
     Now, if this had been made in South Canada, there'd be a tearful reconciliation, an angelic choir, the aliens' heads would explode and we'd all have Nick Cage to thank for it.

No, Art, no!

     Well, I did have even more about The Flop House and music, except I'm not getting paid to promote them and we don't want to overdo it, lest you, gentle reader, get bored.




*  Not that I'm bitter or anything.  At all.