Some brilliant posts lately

Updating DW in an odd awkward break between teaching. Wow, just like old times. Anyway, I still have many essays in my head but I don't have time to write them, so here is some other people's stuff instead:

• metaquotes picked up legionseagle's hilarious Summary of Ulysses before I got to it; it cracked me up even though (I confess) I haven't read the original. So just in case you haven't already seen it, worth reading.
  
  
• papersky wrote an awesome poem about menstruation. FYI, if you go directly to her journal rather than following my link, she refers to it in the cut text as icky female stuff.
  
  
• And via green_knight, zeborah's magisterial answer to the plaint of where's my hoverboard?