Posted: 1^st September 2014

The Pleasures of September

Ah, the joys of rahat lokum...that's Turkish Delight to you non-cognoscenti. Sybaritic pleasures: what's yours? Eating grapes lying down, like one of CB DeMille's bad Bible characters? Or binge-watching CB DeMille Bible epics with a few friends, and mocking them a la Mystery Science Theater? Do you prefer intellectual 'guilty pleasures', such as reading all the footnotes to Klaeber's Beowulf translation, and making up bad limericks about German philologists? (There once was a scholar named Klaeber, whose hobby was tossing the caber....) Do you spend surreptitious hours reading online comics, or going to the Rocky Horror Picture Show in full costume?

Yes, readers, 'guilty pleasures' is the subject of September's Create Challenge. If it's illegal or immoral, keep it to yourselves. But if it's fattening, interesting, or just plain fun – fire away. Think of some Guide Entry Stuff, too. They're hot on this kind of thing over at Peer Review.

This week, we start you off with some contributions by Freewayriding, Magwitch, and Prof Animal Chaos. Awix is always on about his guilty pleasure, which is attending the cinema. Fortunately for us, he shares. Ben's not guilty about anything, nor does he need to be. He's got some sane advice for us all, which we do well to follow. (Thanks, Ben. I made my lists.)

What else do we have? Okay, your Editor's guilty pleasure this week was downloading Willem's wildlife picture, and then hiding in the wardrobe while gushing, 'Awww....' It's that cute. Our artist has to stop doing this. It's just not dignified for aged editors to be breaking out in baby talk like that.

We have a quiz and some humour, enough, we hope, to pique your interest and inspire you. Get to work on those guilty pleasures: you have an excuse now.

We told you to.

Have a good week!

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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  Colours of Wildlife

The cute Rock Hyrax.

• Gheorgheniplex

Barnacle Bill, space sailor?

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THE PLEASURES OF KNOWLEDGE

• 24 Lies a Second


The pleasures of Luc Besson.

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  I Couldn't Care Less

Sticking to the script.

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  Babe Among the Stars

Encounter with a comet.

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  September Create

Magwitch's guilty pleasure.

TABLE SERVICE

• Oddity of the Week
  

Cold and sweet.

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  Why the 90s Were Gay


Meet your waiter.

• September Create


Biker's dawn.

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  September Create

The Prof on guilty pleasures.

• The Post Quiz


Movie spoilers.

• Writing Right with Dmitri
  

Corroborative detail.

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