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GrittyLipids

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I read a lot, listen to a lot of podcasts, watch cartoons and (frequently cheesy) movies.

I speak a few different languages besides English.

Otherwise I'm around. I think the land I live on used to belong to the Nacotchtank but I'm not sure. He/him.

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Rewatching for at least the 50th time in the last 25 years, since Martin Mull just died. One thing I didn’t realize until just now, because I’ve been reading , is that Mr. Green’s problem of being a closeted gay man who worked for the State Department was actually very accurate for the time, since this is set in 1954. Haven’t gotten there in the book yet, but it seems unlikely that the purges completely died with McCarthy‘s career.

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I’m on a bit of a western euro classics kick these days. I have a two-volume set of The Greek Myths from The Folio Society that I got 23ish years ago and never read, though I did read that Daulaires Greek Myths book when I was a kid. But in between the books I’m reading and documentaries I’m watching about Rome, I think I might read some Greek originals.

Maybe put some Polybius on tap next to Marcus Aurelius.



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Serious vibes in the series finale of . I’m not an educated classicist and I know they had to change things for the show and its collapsing budget by this point, but I’m a bit skeptical that the real story was like this.

No wonder people see this show as a precursor to Game of Thrones - I may get round to watching that. I’ll have to rewatch season 1 later.

I also just bought Ten Caesars and will read it soon.




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Yeah, I didn’t have HBO until very recently. I remember people talking about how good it was and how much they wanted more money/seasons, and now it makes sense.

I also never watched game of thrones when it was new, but I’m watching the first episode now and it’s like…ah, right, not only is it a thinner imitation of Rome, but no wonder it looks and sounds like this.

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We’ll see, I’m A: tired after getting up at 4:20 AM to take my wife to an 8 AM appointment, B: not sleeping well anyway and C: having a few beers, plus D: I don’t watch a lot of dramatic TV, so it may take a bit longer for me than most people.

But I’m biased towards real history, which I’m also trying to account for. I’ve missed out on a lot of things in life for reasons, so maybe this will be different.

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The budget problem probably has something to do with it.

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I’d say that’s taste changing. The myth of decline is real and applies to everything cultural.

My big issue is that I know so much about real people that it’s really hard for fictional people to get my attention, especially if they’re trying to say “look at this fictional person making fictional hard choices, doesn’t that suck?” because I can just go point at the mountain of things I know about real people making harder ones.

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I imagine this is true for a good number of people, and I further imagine that this is why fictional shows seem to have a lot of naked people, a lot of insane fantasy/sci-fi violence, or both.

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Also I went and got Ten Caesars and SPQR because I felt bad about not knowing more than I do.

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I saw that on the shelf as well, but didn’t go with that one this time.

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