April 2010
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There are days when I don’t think I’m getting much better at this whole ‘Classics’ thing. Today is one of them.
We had our Greek proficiencies today. If that means nothing to you, this is what it is: you get about 20 lines each of three Greek poems/plays, three passages of Greek prose at around half a page each, which you have to translate at sight (but we have a long-ass reading list we’re...
March 2010
51 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-28) →
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Times Online (8)
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“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be boned.”
– Not Carl Sagan.
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Patrick Gowers - 221B Baker Street
Because I...
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New favorite thing in Nashville: The Local Taco.
The Korean BBQ tacos are amazing.
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Sun Kil Moon - Carry Me Ohio
Sorry that
I...
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WatchOpposites Attract, a cute 1-minute short by my high school friend Yuri, with whom we once made a movie for Mandarin class, bad accents and all. Hai yao jia she yi ge xiao…uh…mei?
I tried to keep the idea simple: no actors, no tripod, no real plan. Bought an orange from a store and with the help of my friends, Dasha and Maria, set out to do something that would be universally understood, and...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-21) →
Hot Chip (24)
jj (21)
Frightened Rabbit (16)
Crystal Castles (13)
Erasure (12)
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“As your leader President, I encourage you from time to time, and always in a...”
– I probably shouldn’t be switching channels between CSPAN and its coverage and Kill Bill, but there you are.
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It’s hard to read Sappho
when you’ve been reading mostly Attic Greek. The Lesbian dialect is a bitch to understand! Goddammit Sappho and Alcaeus why are you being assholes.
Oh also health care.
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Sir Christopher Lee reads Jabberwocky →
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“Poetic descriptions of the vagina, its physical features and its excellence as a...”
– ML West’s opening sentence in his article, A Vagina in Search of an Author.
But then, it’s followed up by: ‘It is a piquant surprise to
find one lurking in Hippolytus’ Refutation of All Heresies (if indeed the work is his).’
The passage being discussed is:
But below it there is a rugged...
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When you start getting your drink on at 3:00 PM,
The rest of the day becomes much more interesting. Happy St Paddy’s Day, everybody.
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“Did the Romans snuggle?”
– History of the Roman Empire professor trying to count the population of a city based on the number of beds found there.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-14) →
Flying Lotus (8)
Lady GaGa (6)
NPR (1)
Chiddy Bang (1)
guardian.co.uk (1)
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Infamy! Infamy! They’ve all got it in for me!
The ides of March for Classics is sort of like Pi Day for math: for one day, a number of people remember Classics, then carry on not giving a crap the next day.
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Harper’s Magazine ties Solon fragment 4 to the... →
I saw this
ἡμετέρη δὲ πόλις κατὰ μὲν Διὸς οὔποτ᾽ ὀλεῖται αἶσαν καὶ μακάρων Θεῶν φρέντας ἀθανάτων: τοίη γὰρ μεγάθυμος ἐπίσκοπος ὁβριμοπάτρη Παλλὰς Ἀθηναίη χεῖρας ὕπερθεν ἔχει: αὐτοὶ δὲ φθείρειν μεγάλην πόλιν ἀφραδίησιν ἀστοί βούλονται χρήμασι πειθόμενοι, δήμου θ᾽ ἡγεμόνων ἄδικος νόος οἷσιν ἑτοῖμον ὕβριος ἐκ μεγάλης ἄλγεα πολλὰ παθεῖν: οὐ γὰρ ἐπίστανται κατέχειν κόρον οὐδὲ παρούσας εὐφροσύνας...
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Third Eye Blind - Narcolepsy
Saki took me to...
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you ugly
Ἠγόρασας πλοκάµους, φῦκος, µέλι, κηρόν, ὀδόντας·
τῆς αὐτῆς δαπάνης ὄψιν ἂν ἠγόρασας.
You bought locks of hair, rouge, honey, bees-wax, teeth;
For the same price you could’ve bought a face. (Lucillius, via)
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“τοῦ μὲν θανόντος οὐκ ἂν ἐνθυμοίμεθα,
εἴ τι φρονοῖμεν, πλεῖον ἡμέρης μιῆς.”
– (We would not think of the dead for more than a day, if we had sense.)
Semonides puts his two cents in on Corey Haim.
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It is a beautiful day in Chicago today. So naturally I am sat inside an Einstein’s Bagels at the University of Chicago campus while my friend is working at her cancer research lab dissecting mice and saving lives (I seem to have a disproportionate amount of friends in the sciences, in great contrast to the frippery that is the Classics), while I am begrudgingly translating Tyrtaeus (or...
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“It’s always the children who say ‘Sir, sir, what’s the point...”
– Stephen Fry in QI.
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US to charge tourists $10 for permission to visit →
The US yesterday passed a new law designed to boost dwindling numbers of foreign tourists – it will start charging them for the privilege of entering the country.
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