Popculch
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The hype has begun for the Starz’ Spartacus series (it’s coming out in January; I hope some Canadian station picks it up) … outside of a press release outlining all sorts of events, there’s now an official website with at least one wallpaper, which folks might be interested in (not of Lucy Lawless, alas) ……
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T’other day we had Plato on music remixing … now the Liverpool Daily Post tells us he knew about transfer talks too (for those of you in North America who don’t follow soccer across the pond, we’d call them ‘trade negotiations’): THE philosopher Plato – as opposed to some other Plato you might know –…
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Time to start hyping this one, I think … we should be cashing in on the popularity of this next year, deo volente. Here’s a nice background video: There’s an unimbeddable-in-wordpress trailer for the upcoming video at Rope of Silicon … very nice teaser …
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A Globe and Mail writer attended ‘gladiator school’ … here’s the incipit of a lengthy piece: I am clad in a scratchy tunic and sandals, wielding a sword that weighs as much as a small child and peering through the visor of a helmet that threatens to smother me under the Hades-hot Roman sun. The…
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The Public Domain site enlightens us:
rogue classicism 