Martin Luther Should Be In Ocean’s 14 (or whateverthefuck number they’re up to)
Seriously, check out the dude’s wikipedia entry and tell me he wasn’t one of the shiftiest mofos to dance around dumb, unsuspecting Popes who could very well be played by Andy Garcia in the movie adaptation. Here’s some high-lights (found by a wonderful colleague of mine) for those of you with lazy click fingers:
Luther’s disappearance during his return trip was planned. Frederick III, Elector of Saxony had him discreetly intercepted on his way home by masked horsemen and escorted to the security of the Wartburg Castle at Eisenach, where Luther grew a beard and lived incognito for nearly eleven months, pretending to be a knight called Junker Jörg.
I would like to note here that Junker Jörg could be used equally as either a name for a character going icognito as a German in a slapstick comedy OR as the name for a hulking scary monster of a man who a Mad Max type has to fight in Thunderdome. VERY versatile name.
“On the evening of 13 June, 1525, Luther married Katharina von Bora, one of a group of 12 nuns he had helped escape from the Nimbschen Cistercian convent in April 1523, arranging for them to be smuggled out in herring barrels.
What a caper!
On to your regularly approved linkage:
- Most fan secrets are creepy. But when they involve Predator they are so creepy that it’s hilarious.
- Sure you like Obama… but he’s still a government official which means he’s still an asshole
- Be careful, your uterus might have been recalled.
- From the “Onion article or Actual news?” file comes the news that NJ is considering a ban on genital waxing.
- Save this one for Sunday when you’re having your coffee before or after you take a walk in the lovely weather. Thank me later.
- And finally, an appeal from Rhizome.
Enjoy your weekend, everybody!
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