February 2009
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According to Variety, post alia: Soderbergh has always wanted to make a sports film and sparked to the opportunity to reteam with Pitt. Soderbergh is looking to make the picture his next directing assignment. He had been expected to next direct “Cleo,” a musical about the fatal romance between Egyptian queen Cleopatra and Roman general…
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Has anyone noticed of late that reading/quoting Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations seems to have become the barometer of whether you are a serious intellectual these days? Look at these examples just in the past week … from the DC Examiner in regards to Arthur Brooks (president of the American Enterprise Institute): So it is that he…
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The incipit of a review at io9 which might be of interest: Wonder Woman traces a fairly familiar version of the character’s origin story. When fighter pilot Steve Trevor (Nathan Fillion) crash lands on the Amazon island of Thermyscira, he represents the first man any of the Amazons have seen in over two millennia. Queen…
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I’m just testing to see if I can post something and then have it appear later … posting around 1.00 p.m.; it should show up around 8.00 p.m. …
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pridie nonas februarias 211 — death of Septimius Severus at York; his son Caracalla assumed the title of pontifex maximus at this time
rogue classicism 