I saw him perform Beowulf live, the way it was done when it was young and new. Before I saw it performed this way, I could never understand how people sat around a fire in a lodge and listened to someone recite a story. I’ve been to storytellers before and none interested me in more than a passing fashion until I saw Bagby perform Beowulf. Wow! Is all I can really say. He does it in the original language, with subtitles and I was on the edge of my seat the entire time.

If this movie butchers the story like “300″ did to its subject matter… grrrrrrr

Everytime I think of Leonidas and the Spartans at Thermopylae I tear up (yes I’m sappy :P) - “300″ may have been a good graphic novel or whatever, but the original story is incredible, who needs a monstrous Xerxes - the achievement is awe inspiring enough without such gimmickry.

I’ll stop now before I sound too much like a classical literature Luddite.

I may be a bimbo, but I’m a bimbo with good taste