Happy birthday, o City of Cities! youtu.be/7sl4XCVmoXg?...

Watching minor Greek TV channels is like using a time machine. I'm now watching an episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos (1980) and I remember the first time I saw it, some 40 years ago. It was the one with the Italian vespa travelling at the speed of light...

Now watching:

Now watching: The Lair of the White Worm (1988)

@metalclassicist.bsky.social I'm guessing the owner of this textbook was a metalhead, but I could be wrong...

May the 4th be with you!

4 Μαΐου 1945: Ένας λόχος του 339ου Συντάγματος Πεζικού του αμερικανικού στρατού απελευθερώνει και τυπικά τους 139 "υψηλούς κρατουμένους" (Prominenten) που οι Γερμανοί είχαν μεταφέρει στο Νότιο Τιρόλο. Οι Prominenten ήταν αιχμάλωτοι υψηλής αξίας για το ναζιστικό καθεστώς, το οποίο σκόπευε να τους >

a generous (and fair) obit of @averilcam.bsky.social One of the giants of the #Byzness

@metalclassicist.bsky.social Symphonic metal...

I know it's rather pathetic to look for your name in the footnotes and bibliography of whatever new academic publication you get your hands on, but at least this time I found it...

Planning to watch this tonight. It's the anniversary. "April Morning" (1988) - Excellent Battle of Lexington 1775 TV Movie youtu.be/knJ8b_7cqOE?... via @YouTube

Greek TV minor channels are a retromaniac's paradise! Last night I watched The Wild Geese (1978) and this morning I'm watching an old Soviet cartoon I first saw as a kid some 40 years ago!

280 years ago today...

Προς στιγμήν τρόμαξα ότι μας την πέσανε οι απέναντι (όχι οι Τούρκοι) και μας πήρανε την πλατφόρμα...

The wonderful mess that is Greek TV on Easter continues unabated: endless reruns of that lovely collection of Biblical-themed TV films made for RAI in the '90s, accompanied by "films with Romans" such as Spartacus (1960) and Pompeii (2014)...

BREAKING: A new major poll has predicted that the Scottish Greens will be the second largest party in Holyrood after the May elections

Yet another Easter when Greek TV follows the noble tradition of scheduling whatever movie or miniseries has Jews and/or Romans in it, regardless of its religious message - or lack thereof. It is thanks to that tradition that I am now watching Julius Caesar (1970).

RIP Averil Cameron (1940-2026)

Happy Easter to our brothers and sisters in the West. PS: You're a week early...

Good Friday for some, not so good for others...

Now watching:

Confined within my four walls due to stormy conditions. At least there's something decent on TV:

Happy International Hug a Medievalist Day! (do we still celebrate that?)

RIP

A couple of days ago I remembered a funny post I made on FB many years ago and today FB reminded me of it...

AI at its "best": Like all good revolutionaries, Greek warriors in 1821 were armed with AK-47s, while Greek women would stop at the hair salon before joining the fight. At least it got the priest right - sorta...

RIP

I have a Justinian II joke but it's rather on the nose.

Say what now?

Many years ago, I was surfing the Internet for information on Karl Malden. The very next day he died. These past few days, I was reciting Chuck Norris jokes to myself. Next thing I know, he's in hospital. I think my late ex wife was right when she was calling me a jinx...

Sláinte!

@metalclassicist.bsky.social St Patrick drives the snakes out of Ireland...

16 March 1968: Winning hearts and minds - the American way...

RIP

Got to hand it to the Americans and their business acumen. They even managed to find a way to monetize their bloodiest war...

According to Greek mainstream media, the frigates HS Kimon and HS Psara have arrived at the port of Nicosia! (spoiler alert: Nicosia is smack-dab in the middle of the island of Cyprus...)

Now watching The League of Gentlemen (1960) and I was able to spot that one of the leading actors (Bryan Forbes) had a very minor, but rather memorable role in The Guns of Navarone (1961).

@kiltedhiker.bsky.social @profmurdoch.bsky.social

I guess Americans love mass-casualty events in schools - both foreign and domestic...

People who moved to the UAE for tax purposes remind me of the story (perhaps apocryphal?) of the British farmer who wanted to move as far away from the coming WWII as possible, so in 1938 sold his UK possessions and bought land on Guadalcanal...

Oh, by the way: all you people out there who do not say a single word about the illegal bombing of Iran (nor Palestine before that), yet proudly display Ukrainian flags in your profile, now's the time to remove them from your profile and stick them somewhere else...