projects

a slightly off-beat but easy and delicious chocolate sheet cake

a sweet bread with chocolate or cinnamon-pecan filling

pumpkin pie filling as a stovetop custard

who I am and what I'm doing here

a fabulously weird historical novel

a bit of CSS to imitate the look of Amazon's Kindle app, in light and dark modes.

how do prequels acknowledge and negotiate the weirdness of their temporal situation?

a rather ambitious list of books I want to have read

the emotional stakes of nonlinear narrative time

Callimachus dishes out metapoetic disses with style (and bees)

a handful of strange books I've read in the past few years

defining my generation and a handful of what I consider to be characteristic experiences

some of the things Kirk says in The Search for Spock are incredibly evocative of Carson's Eros the Bittersweet

Maude Latour's debut studio album is delightfully weird and I highly recommend it

oratio eius iam tum nihil aliud poterat videri quam solutum carmen.

I said I wanted to get weirder with it, so this is me, getting weirder with it

Mezentius gets cocky; Orodes harshes his vibe.

Odysseus welcomes the sight of dry land

the Golden Age sounds pretty damn nice

Odysseus receives advice from a ghost prophet

Atreus welcomes home his prodigal brother.

starting off my reading project by breaking my own rules

how to change the default colors in Chart.js (a thing which took me an age to figure out)

the chorus reflects on Hipppolytus' attractive qualities

I taught classics to econ majors and it went great

fifteen discrete good songs that fail to come together into a single good album

...and subsequent silver lining

tl;dr: I got what I came for and had a good time in the process

a non-specialist's guide to Greek and Latin literature for use in fandom.

Homer's Iliad, the extremely ancient war epic.

Aeschylus' Agamemnon, a play about justice, revenge, and murdering your husband in the bathtub.

Vergil's Aeneid, the iconic Roman epic.

Cicero’s Catilinarians, the high point of Latin oratory.

Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis, a Saturnalia satire about the Emperor Claudius.

Ovid’s Heroides, love elegy playing at epistolary (and my favorite ancient text <3).

Sappho’s extant works, the fragmentary remains of some of the greatest love poetry of all time.

Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic War, the most stab-able book I ever did read.

Sophocles’ Elektra, a tragedy about resistance for its own sake and definitely not about having a psychosexual relationship with your father, oh my God, Jung.

a fabulously weird historical novel

a handful of strange books I've read in the past few years

I said I wanted to get weirder with it, so this is me, getting weirder with it

Mezentius gets cocky; Orodes harshes his vibe.

Odysseus receives advice from a ghost prophet

testing out new ways to represent ambiguities in translation

Atreus welcomes home his prodigal brother, but it's properly biblical this time.

a bit of imagery as it appears in several published translations, plus my own attempts.

one of my favorite bits of Latin poetry, translated for my dad

how do prequels acknowledge and negotiate the weirdness of their temporal situation?

the emotional stakes of nonlinear narrative time

a rather ambitious list of books I want to have read

starting off my reading project by breaking my own rules

Vonnegut as Euripides and the denial of sense

I continue to read things that are just barely not the things I said I was going to read

I said I wanted to get weirder with it, so this is me, getting weirder with it

Mezentius gets cocky; Orodes harshes his vibe.

Odysseus welcomes the sight of dry land

the Golden Age sounds pretty damn nice

Odysseus receives advice from a ghost prophet

Atreus welcomes home his prodigal brother.

the chorus reflects on Hipppolytus' attractive qualities

Atreus welcomes home his prodigal brother, but it's properly biblical this time.

Meliboeus is having a bad day, and I'm not sure Tityrus is helping.

a bit of imagery as it appears in several published translations, plus my own attempts.

one of my favorite bits of Latin poetry, translated for my dad

Proteus is a mighty morphin' sea god

a bit of CSS for stealing Wikipedia's look

how I made mine

a bit of CSS to mimic the look of a (slightly crunchy) scanned PDF.

a simplified version of this site's post index

a bit of CSS to mimic the look of Apple Books, in light and dark mode.

a bit of CSS to imitate the look of Amazon's Kindle app, in light and dark modes.

how to change the default colors in Chart.js (a thing which took me an age to figure out)

this is super useful if you are basically me, and dubiously interesting if you are not

testing out new ways to represent ambiguities in translation

a little script for little thoughts

another little script, this time based off a spreadsheet

a layout for commentary surrounding text