It’s been a week of downpours and thunder, and now it’s raining soggy links.

Remember the film adaptation of the terribly sad Ray Bradbury story “All Summer in a Day”? It’s on YouTube: part 1, part 2, and part 3.

Speaking of Bradbury, Steven Hart just re-read Fahrenheit 451.

Jake Seliger didn’t think Portfolio magazine was very good.

The Heroic Age posts a call for papers.

Did you know that Mexico once had a half-American prince? C.M. Mayo did; her new novel is about him.

At Open Letters Monthly, they’re reading The Kalevala.

Finally, the guilty-pleasure song of the week: Ozzy Osbourne’s paean to America’s greatest TV lawyer.

Another quick technical announcement: In addition to our new Twitter feed, “Quid Plura?” now has a Facebook page that will duplicate everything you read here. If you’re a Facebook addict who wants all of your daily reads in one place, then each new “Quid Plura?” post can now be delivered to you like a jewel-encrusted goblet of chilled gazelle milk to the cruel hand of an Abbasid caliph. All you have to do is become a “fan” of the “Quid Plura?” page.

Regular posting will continue soon: We’ll go down the shore with King Arthur and embark upon new kitchen experiments with galangal, the Charlemagne of rhizomes. Stay tuned.

Nec audiendi qui solent dicere: “Vox populi, vox Dei,” cum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.

Perhaps Alcuin was right. Regardless, “Quid Plura?” has taken the great leap: we’re now on Twitter and Facebook. Befriend or ignore as you see fit! (The main blog, of course, will carry on as usual.)

Should we heed Alcuin’s warning about the madness of crowds? I don’t know, but he was lucky: Despite living in a world without flush toilets or penicillin, he fortunately never had to ponder friend requests from Theodulf of Orleans…

It’s Friday, it’s May, and good links abound.

Nathan Bransford thinks writing is like wrestling.

Victoria Strauss explains what the Google Books settlement means for you.

Steven Hart notes the literary connection to a New Jersey bridge I know pretty well.

How much does a bestselling novelist earn? Lynn Viehl lets readers see her royalty statement.

Here’s a neat blog about 19th-century literature: Wuthering Expectations.

Adrian Murdoch asks: Can you monetize antiquities?

Dave is hosing the latest installment of the “When on Google Earth” contest. Can you identify the site he’s posted?

The artist who made the paintings for the TV series Good Times has done pretty well for himself.

In 1985, a story in Dragon magazine saw the future of online gaming. Here’s “Catacomb” by Henry Melton.

If someone held a Bad Covers of Whitesnake contest, this would win.

Working, learning, teaching—life calls, but there’s always time for links.

Writer Beware takes down another scammer.

Here’s a fine defense of Twitter.

Unlocked Wordhoard finds Robin Hood’s politics pretty inflexible.

Got Medieval spots bad 15th-century Photoshopping.

If your kids want to read about ancient Rome, Eternally Cool has mysteries for them.

Steve Muhlberger hosts the latest Carnivalesque, the ancient and medieval blog carnival.

Jake Seliger is thinking about e-books.

War Music beguiles Lex Fajardo.

Ephemeral New York recalls a French chateau on Fifth Avenue.

Finally, this Ernie Kovacs video speaks for itself, even if no one in it speaks at all.

Another week ends; let’s praise people who were far more prolific than I’ve been.

Scott Nokes rebukes the guy who ruined the modern swordfight.

A sharp-eyed classicist swoons, for Rod Blagojevich knows Horatian odes.

Steven Hart tries to remember the forgotten Pulitzer novelists.

Julius Caesar continues to conquer Twitter.

South of Rome, Eternally Cool finds a vending machine for books.

Heavenfield notes that NPR is going the way of Chaucer’s pilgrims.

In Cologne, they’re still sifting through rubble for history’s bits and pieces.

From zombies to e-books, Jake Seliger cultivates April’s literary links.

Congrats to Julie K. Rose! She’s a semifinalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.

Long before “Dancing With the Stars,” choreographer Stanley Donen paired Bruce Willis with Sandahl Bergman for seven great minutes of “Moonlighting.”

Speaking of dancing: it’s a five o’clock world when the whistle blows. So enjoy the weekend!

A weary week limps toward completion, leaving interesting links in its wake.

When Scott Nokes taught Paradise Lost, a student worked out the distance between Heaven and Hell. Lingwë checked the math.

Jonathan Jarrett shows you what historians do when they read early medieval charters.

Adrian Murdoch continues to track press coverage of the anniversary of the battle of Teutoberg Forest.

Apparently, there’s a call to boycott Kindle books that cost more than $9.99.

Ephemeral New York finds pieces of the old Penn Station at the Brooklyn Museum.

The World of Royalty invites you to seek advice “from fifty of history’s unluckiest royal women.”

Victoria Strauss speaks rationally about self-publishing.

Nathan Bransford lets you be a literary agent for a day.

Steve Donoghue reviews a new translation of the Aeneid.

Jake Seliger reviews pens.

Got Twitter? Follow Julius Caesar—or a komodo dragon.

In 1987, William Blake met Tangerine Dream.

Finally, when Germany’s biggest pop singer covers an 18th-century poem, das Resultat ist schön.

Stuck inside? Bummed out by a rainy weekend? Here are some links to get you through a damp and dreary Sunday.

Steven Hart appreciates Ian McKellen’s Richard III.

Bibliographing ponders “the reader in exile” and the supposed end of the literary niche.

Eternally Cool finds seafood wearing medieval armor.

Ducks and Drakes picks apart the latest op-ed defending the humanities and celebrates 100 posts with a “best of” compilation.

Jake Seliger interviews T.C. Boyle. Part one is here; part two is here.

Lingwë has more on the new Tolkien translation.

Michael Drout connects Beowulf, Walter Skeat, and ornithology.

Scott Nokes posts the video of his lecture “Beowulf vs. the Nazis.”

Ephemeral New York has photos of the time the Nazis paraded in Manhattan.

Steve Muhlberger ponders the eternal question: should you go to graduate school?

Open Letters reviews the new bio of Philip of Macedonia.

Finally, here’s Leroy Powell singing Roger Miller’s “River in the Rain.”

Tonight, I found myself explaining orcs to a four-year-old. As snow falls on Washington, take comfort in knowing that somewhere out there is a kid who thinks an orc is a mean, pig-faced creature who uses the word “stupid,” calls other people “blockheads,” and sometimes hits his fellow orcs.

What do orcs have to do with the following assortment of Monday links? Nothing; I just couldn’t leave this introductory section blank, for heaven’s sake.

Last year, I heard from a reader in British Columbia who was planning to walk the Via Francigena, the old pilgrimage route to Rome. I knew too little about the route or its history to offer much help, but I was delighted to learn that he and his wife did it: they walked the stretch from Switzerland to Rome. They’re telling their story here.

What do you get when you combine the Ramayana with 1920s jazz songs? Sita Sings the Blues.

Natalia wants her students’ essays to look her in the I.

Eternally Cool finds The Aeneid on Facebook.

Cinderella says I’m “excessively diverting.” Thanks!

Steven Hart says that some blog-posts last.

Unlocked Wordhoard wonders: What are medieval barnacle geese?

When the BBC ran a silly story about computer models of English past and future, Got Medieval was there to give it a deserving kick, and Language Log was there to demolish it.

Finally, this video from a couple years ago plainly demonstrates why learning a foreign language can be pretty useful.

When Chaucer praised his Clerk by writing that “gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche,” he probably never pictured the poor dude trying to do both of those things while also holding down a full-time job. Such is the state of things here at “Quid Plura?” headquarters. Those of you who have pre-ordered Becoming Charlemagne II: The Curse of Lothar’s Gold will have to wait longer than I’d hoped. Fortunately, you won’t have to wait long at all to hear the pitter-patter of sundry links.

At The Economist, “Charlemagne” ponders the global ascendancy of English and the counterintuitive downsides for native speakers.

Commenters at the New York Times travel blog hate this guy who begs his way across Europe.

Lingwë mulls over the plurals “oxen” and “foxes.”

The world’s hardest-working royalty-blogger is now on Twitter.

K.A. Laity is writing a novel 500 words at a time.

Steve Donoghue reviews a new translation of Boethius. (One hopes it abounds in theology and geometry.)

Ephemeral in New York recalls the tuberculosis of yesteryear.

“Quid Plura?” readers fall into two camps: people who want to know how Icelandic sheep’s head jelly is made, and terrorists.

My Life in Books finds an odd little book: a short story in twelve languages.

L.C. McCabe finds a fantasy adaptation of Orlando Furioso with a really awful cover.

On Valentine’s Day, Alpheus remembered how the Brownings fell in love.

Speak Swedish? Know your runes? The Riksantikvarieämbetet is looking for runologists.

Did you know the Beach Boys recorded in German? I sure didn’t.

Call your cable provider if you think you need the Clive Clemmons Inappropriate Heavy Metal Response Channel.