Thank you McSweeney’s for providing me with such fun reading materials. Today we’ve got Things Hagrid the Half Giant Woudl say If He Served Jesus Instead of Harry Potter and A Letter from “The Power” to Public Enemy.

From the first:

“Speakin’ of cups runnethin’ over, laddie, mine’s be gettin’ a mite dry. How ’bout changin’ this ‘ere water into somethin’ a bit more, well, frisky?”

“Why, if a fellow wanted ta get away clean, Peter-me-lad, all they’d have ter do would be ta deny they ever even knowed Jesus. Uh-oh. I shouldn’t eh told yeh that.”

And the second:

Dear Chuckdee, Flavor Flavor, Professor Griffin, and everyone else,

Hey, guys! What’s up? Or should I say “what up”? Is that how you hippity-hoppers and homeyboys and gangerbangers are saying it now? Never mind. I’ll get right to the point.

Do we have to keep fighting like this? Or, more specifically, do you really want to keep fighting me? I don’t mind indulging you if that’s what you guys want. It’s not hurting me, of course, since I am The Power after all. But I just wonder if you might consider giving it up. I mean, this has been going on for a while and I’m still very much here.

Do you realize that you’ve been fighting me since 1989? (What a crazy summer that was, huh? Whatever happened to that funky drummer?) Now, that’s 16 years ago. Babies born that summer are driving cars now! So much has happened since then. Presidents have come and gone, the Soviet Union collapsed. But not The Power! Honestly, guys, I’d really like to be your friend and hang out with you at your rapping concerts. It’s time to put this behind us.

In the battle between animals. The squirrels shall rule the world:

Labrador loses to a squirrel

When Carl the labrador chased a squirrel into the woods, his owners’ only concern was for his quarry.

But they should have worried about their dog. Because seconds later Carl re-emerged with the grey squirrel firmly clamped to his neck. [Telegraph.co.uk] [via Warren Ellis]

As my gnome warrior in WoW says, “Ya’know. Squirrels are deadly when cornered.