Books

Lots of good stuff in this one, but the insulting nicknames
(Alfred Toadballs, Roger God-save-the-ladies) are perhaps
the most fun.

The title is a euphemism for “What they thought about
dung in the Middle Ages.” They thought about it a lot,
and I tell you why.

The old jokes are the best jokes. There are a lot
of them in here.

Really, you can’t have too many old jokes.

They’re not translated, but if you know Latin,
there are some good ‘uns in here.

A collection of essays about some fascinating
stuff. Mine is about women who played board
games in the Middle Ages — women who were
rebellious or supernatural or both.

Collectanea Pseudo-Bedae (ed. with Michael Lapidge). So
rare that no proper image of the cover exists, apparently.
This is the random jottings of an eighth-century Irish monk
living on the Continent, and he collected a lot of interesting
little tidbits of folklore.

My finest moment was when the Library of Congress
wrote to ask “How shall we distinguish the author
of Kitty Kapers from the serious academic author?” I said,
“Yeah, they’re both me.”

Yeah, I wrote a Farscape book, because, y’know.
It has Dave’s name on it but the inside verifies that
it’s by me.