Loreena McKennitt was just (well… a few weeks ago) awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by Wilfred Laurier University. Read her acceptance speech here. If you haven’t heard of her, might I *VERY* highly recommend that you check her out? A lot of people complain about the Wiccan influences in her music but a lot of her music also draws from Christian sources as well as some really amazing poetry such as Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shallot” and Shakespeare’s works.

This is going on the shelf next to my talking Dubya doll!

A REAL MAN appreciates a good Icelandic saga.