Executive Pagan

I have created a couple of new words that I would like to offer the world at large… just for fun.

I’d like to present one of my all-time favorite animations: Cupid’s Last Stand, by Katy Towell.

http://essays.quotidiana.org
Hundreds of essays from the period of greatest flourishing of that nearly lost art.

Having recently read Terry Pratchett’s “The Wee Free Men” to my daughter, I was startled to come across a book of poetry with the title “The World’s Worst Poet” - and find that the character of William the Gonnagle, bard of the Nac Mac Feegles, was based on a real person.

This is too cool! From the Philadelphia Mummer’s Parade.

I do not like that Trojan man -
I do not like him, Zeus I am.
Shall I hit him with a club?

A middle-aged man driving to his corporate IT job while listening to MP3 rips of his old New Model Army albums.
And writing about it on his blog.

Kudos to Sannion for this post. Go and read.
And, as a bonus, entry #5(a) in my commonplace book (the (a) is because I tagged the Seneca quote as commonplace_book also, but didn’t announce it as such).
“My tormented psyche, my rules!” - Wonderella

I freely admit this falls under the category of “Hellenic kitsch”…

If you haven’t seen Jamie Rieger’s website, follow the link; his deconstruction of Homer and Herodotus is absolutely priceless. He’s no longer updating, but says he plans to leave the site intact, at least for now.
A sample: