September 11, 2010
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Alex Beam in the Boston Globe reveals 22 things he didn’t know (besides Lady Gaga’s real name), inter alia: 15. Here is something you don’t know: There have been four new translations of Virgil’s “Aeneid’’ in the past five years. Dude is Kardashian-level hot! via Alex Beam doesn’t know Lady Gaga’s real name, among many…
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I’m kind of glad I don’t get Syfy … here’s an excerpt from a television column: “Destination Truth” is best described as the lovechild between “Ghost Hunters” and Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations,” as Gates spins off witty one-liners and asides in the fast and furious pace of the latter show, and then examines paranormal lore…
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Lycidas was criticized big time by Samuel Johnson (as the intro to this piece notes); folks will probably want to read Johnson’s thoughts (lines 180 ff) before reading the commentary to the poem and the poem itself: Poem of the week: Lycidas by John Milton | Guardian.
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… from a Vanity Fair interview with Michael Lewis (inter alia, natch): Which is a good segue to my next question. If you could buy the Acropolis, what would you do with it? When I went over there, it was one of my missions to figure out what the Acropolis would cost me. I thought…
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Interesting discussion over at Biblical Archeology Review that I just came across for some reason (not sure how old this one is): The Garum Debate: Was There a Kosher Roman Delicacy at Pompeii? – Biblical Archaeology Review.
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