There are many, many funny things in every issue of @theonion.com, but man do I love the hit song titles
Dragonsbane - Barbara Hambly, 1985. Hambly's strength is always in her characters, and those of Dragonsbane are no exceptions. Even 4 decades after first publications, they feel refreshingly real amongst most fantasy epics. The story itself isn't so snappy, but it trucks along well enough to work.
Mike Worrall (British, 1942) - Incident on Platform 6 (2003)
a worker on the scaffolding turns around and a spotlight finds him. it's lin-manuel miranda! he begins to rap about john f kennedy. we've been had
One day soon I hope to be well enough to once more check the letterbox unaided, but alas I fear the influenza shall not release me so easily
also, the current fad for digitisation for digitisation's sake is creating a world where it's considered more desirable for a medievalist to know python than latin, and this is just turning the field into an extension of tech where actual use of sources is sidelined in favour of glorifed powerpoints