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2024 in review | January 1, 2025
my year, summarized
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commentary layout | December 31, 2024
a layout for commentary surrounding text
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metamorphoses 8.732 | December 13, 2024
Proteus is a mighty morphin' sea god
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cheap art | December 12, 2024
how to make some of your own
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what is us? | November 11, 2024
what do we mean by "we"?
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election results | November 10, 2024
I feel like I'm not emoting right
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metamorphoses 15.871 | October 21, 2024
one of my favorite bits of Latin poetry, translated for my dad
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field exam | October 15, 2024
so, that was a disaster
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pumpkin pudding | October 7, 2024
pumpkin pie filling as a stovetop custard
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js thoughts widget (take 2) | October 5, 2024
another little script, this time based off a spreadsheet
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js thoughts widget | October 3, 2024
a little script for little thoughts
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teaching week i | October 2, 2024
verdict: fun but incredibly exhausting
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agamemnon 1090–92 | September 29, 2024
a bit of imagery as it appears in several published translations, plus my own attempts.
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eclogues 1.1–10 | September 28, 2024
Meliboeus is having a bad day, and I'm not sure Tityrus is helping.
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a room of one's own | September 21, 2024
I continue to read things that are just barely not the things I said I was going to read
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slaughterhouse-five | September 18, 2024
Vonnegut as Euripides and the denial of sense
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what the freshman class already reads | September 14, 2024
the tetchier addendum to my last post
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how the freshman class needs to read | September 13, 2024
a response to a piece in the Atlantic that I found deeply disturbing
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thyestes 523 (take 2) | September 10, 2024
Atreus welcomes home his prodigal brother, but it's properly biblical this time.
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translation styles | September 7, 2024
testing out new ways to represent ambiguities in translation
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js random passage generator | September 5, 2024
this is super useful if you are basically me, and dubiously interesting if you are not
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blaugust wrap-up | August 31, 2024
tl;dr: I got what I came for and had a good time in the process
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fun with flights | August 31, 2024
...and subsequent silver lining
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cacophany | August 30, 2024
fifteen discrete good songs that fail to come together into a single good album
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guest lecturing | August 29, 2024
I taught classics to econ majors and it went great
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phaedra 814 | August 28, 2024
the chorus reflects on Hipppolytus' attractive qualities
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color in chart.js | August 27, 2024
how to change the default colors in Chart.js (a thing which took me an age to figure out)
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the little prince | August 26, 2024
starting off my reading project by breaking my own rules
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thyestes 523 | August 25, 2024
Atreus welcomes home his prodigal brother.
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odyssey 11.109 | August 22, 2024
Odysseus receives advice from a ghost prophet
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metamorphoses 1.100 | August 21, 2024
the Golden Age sounds pretty damn nice
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odyssey 5.395 | August 20, 2024
Odysseus welcomes the sight of dry land
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aeneid 10.736 | August 19, 2024
Mezentius gets cocky; Orodes harshes his vibe.
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hippolytus 555–64 | August 19, 2024
I said I wanted to get weirder with it, so this is me, getting weirder with it
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ovid the lawyer | August 17, 2024
oratio eius iam tum nihil aliud poterat videri quam solutum carmen.
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sugar water | August 17, 2024
Maude Latour's debut studio album is delightfully weird and I highly recommend it
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oikeios | August 16, 2024
some of the things Kirk says in The Search for Spock are incredibly evocative of Carson's Eros the Bittersweet
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generational memories | August 15, 2024
defining my generation and a handful of what I consider to be characteristic experiences
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weird books | August 14, 2024
a handful of strange books I've read in the past few years
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callimachean metapoetics | August 13, 2024
Callimachus dishes out metapoetic disses with style (and bees)
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destiny and the prequel | August 11, 2024
the emotional stakes of nonlinear narrative time
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reading (modern) classics | August 10, 2024
a rather ambitious list of books I want to have read
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prequel problems | August 9, 2024
how do prequels acknowledge and negotiate the weirdness of their temporal situation?
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kindle style card | August 9, 2024
a bit of CSS to imitate the look of Amazon's Kindle app, in light and dark modes.
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sudden death | August 6, 2024
a fabulously weird historical novel
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blaugust: introduction | August 6, 2024
who I am and what I'm doing here
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apple books style card | July 21, 2024
a bit of CSS to mimic the look of Apple Books, in light and dark mode.
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memory and historiography | July 16, 2024
"As soon as we die, we enter into fiction..."
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js page index | July 11, 2024
a simplified version of this site's post index
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queerness in disco season one | June 25, 2024
the one thing so far that has made Star Trek: Discovery's prequel-ness worth it.
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nox | June 12, 2024
poem of all time
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essay errata | June 6, 2024
I wrote an essay about the erotic connotations of ivory in Ovid's Metamorphoses. This is a bunch of stuff that didn't end up in it.
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grand tour | May 28, 2024
Elisa Gonzales' debut poetry collection is solid, but not excellent
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babka | May 25, 2024
a sweet bread with chocolate or cinnamon-pecan filling
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scanned pdf style card | May 8, 2024
a bit of CSS to mimic the look of a (slightly crunchy) scanned PDF.
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js theme switcher | April 27, 2024
how I made mine
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coca-cola cake | April 25, 2024
a slightly off-beat but easy and delicious chocolate sheet cake
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25 de abril sempre | April 25, 2024
the 50th anniversary of Portugal's Carnation Revolution.
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wikipedia style card | April 21, 2024
a bit of CSS for stealing Wikipedia's look
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internet pseudonimity | April 13, 2024
or: why not use my real name on the internet?
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electra and trauma and recovery | March 15, 2024
baby's first (real) web-weaving
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worship and slaughter | January 24, 2024
Latin has a fun semantic overlap between worship and slaughter.
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sophocles: elektra | August 2, 2023
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.
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"muse" | July 19, 2023
one of the most interesting pieces of classical reception I've seen in a while.
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green's catullus | March 27, 2023
this ain't it, chief.
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caesar: on the gallic war | March 15, 2023
Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic War, the most stab-able book I ever did read.
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apollo's sterilem amorem | March 2, 2023
I love this passage.
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"the debt we owe" | February 27, 2023
Snapshots of change.
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short talk on Vulcans | February 14, 2023
Vulcans, desire, and Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet.
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sappho: fragments | February 14, 2023
Sappho’s extant works, the fragmentary remains of some of the greatest love poetry of all time.
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ovid: heroides | January 5, 2023
Ovid’s Heroides, love elegy playing at epistolary (and my favorite ancient text <3).
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seneca: apocolocyntosis | December 25, 2022
Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis, a Saturnalia satire about the Emperor Claudius.
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cicero: against catiline | November 29, 2022
Cicero’s Catilinarians, the high point of Latin oratory.
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"tell stories of freedom" | November 4, 2022
Scenes from a revolution.
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vergil: aeneid | October 20, 2022
Vergil's Aeneid, the iconic Roman epic.
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a terrible reading of heroides 14 | September 12, 2022
I cannot believe this exists.
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aeschylus: agamemnon | August 28, 2022
Aeschylus' Agamemnon, a play about justice, revenge, and murdering your husband in the bathtub.
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homer: iliad | July 6, 2022
Homer's Iliad, the extremely ancient war epic.
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classical literature for fandom purposes | July 4, 2022
a non-specialist's guide to Greek and Latin literature for use in fandom.
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elektra and clytemnestra | June 3, 2022
Elektra assumes her mother's position.
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mothers in the house of atreus | May 17, 2022
everything changed when Clytemnestra arrived.
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heroides 1.3 | May 15, 2022
I love this line.
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her. 12.31-36: a mini commentary | April 23, 2022
some of my favorite lines in all of Latin poetry.