since herodotus, cannibalism is bound up in making foreign people the Other. it’s in the odyssey. it’s the oldest form of xenophobia. see 👇🏻

“ESCALATOR OUT OF ORDER, TEMPORARILY STAIRS HEARD THAT”

anytime i’m advising a student and the inevitable “why classics?” question comes up, i mention ted turner

i co-run a student reading group on herbert smyth’s greek grammar and today we learned that FAFO qualifies as a future more vivid condition (present imperative protasis, future indicative apodosis): (if you) fuck around, and (you will) find out

happy midterms and spring break travel conflict requests season to all my colleagues who celebrate

short track relay speed skaters and velodrome cyclists share the same fucked up psychologically of “we’re chasing them but they’re also chasing us.” truly cursed sports

they call it “skeleton” luge because “severe spinal injury junkies” didn’t focus group well

if you perpetrate something this heinous in a greek tragedy, all of your friends and family wind up dead and you’re left to live with the aftermath

[frontinus watching modern olympic sledding events and shaking his head] that’s too much drop across that distance, but you can’t argue with channel curvature over topography

Rest in peace to one of the great bloggers and the de facto mayor of Philadelphia. It was my honor and pleasure to work with him. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

here is dan mcquade’s last appearance on the distraction, where he talks about his diagnosis and fatherhood open.spotify.com/episode/3PhL...

gonna tell my mythology students i got called a dirty little boy by a podcast on my morning commute

there’s a first time for everything i guess

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It can be a hard pill to swallow but you have to accept that while you will prevail in this struggle, you may not be there to witness it.

wearing these horrors into the classroom and immediately getting cooked by 23 college sophomores

i’m jason bourne and i just eluded the entirely of paris police in a fiat pos. this hot woman in the passenger seat next to me is going to cut her hair and wash her hands, for the male gaze

gift link. for those who haven’t read a lot of roth, this is the angriest thing of his i’ve read defector.com/fascists-are...

we’re bringing back covid era instruction, which everyone involved fucking hated, but now the threat to public health is stephen miller’s baby snatching squad

HE EVEN BUMS HER A LIGHT

plato’s instructor socrates, in his self defense speech that led to his execution, explicitly recognizes our universal and shared basic humanity, regardless of where you’re from. he also engaged in civil disobedience against inhumane government policy. socrates died in defense of the social contract

“women wept” is literally the final line of the fucking iliad

if i’m gm of the twins i’m getting whoever hurled this snowball in for first pitch on opening day of the 2026 season

a whole city block laughing their ass off at this gestapo pig

i think it’s great that daedalus is still finding work, despite, well, y’know

vanderbilt whistler has been fired, effective immediately

liberty bowl weather looks atrocious. 10/10 no notes

ole miss is haunted

my favorite part of this indiana game was the first half drive where they ran the “gain a first down on every play” offense. pure opera

kirby going to a funeral?

[first day of class LATN 101 syllabus projected on the screen] hi y”all, we’re gonna memorize more violence

if dante alighieri had an nfl team it would be the atlanta falcons: come seep in the frozen mud of the ninth circle. distended limbs under the ice for miles. this is hell

i’ve been on a first name basis with walton goggins and danny mcbride for years because they’ll stop in to the local dive and buy all the regulars’ bar tab on their way to dinner at the fish joint down the street

[very new yorkly] jorxson dort

anyone told the giants that draft order is on the line?

did he die?

starting taysom hill in the flex for fantasy championship like

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER answers the question of “how stressed were you during UNCUT GEMS? well here you fucking go”

I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work? archive.is/2025.12.17-0...

[lane kiffin packing up his office turns to pete golding]: yo dog whatever you do just run the offense side score up; we do that every single time; just hammer the scoreboard and see what happens. anyway, bye luv ya [pete golding]: i will stab a silver blade into the heart of my opponent

send this tape to the committee next year when they try to bullshit like tamu into the CFP

@cjzero.bsky.social did pete golding just say “fuckin’ a, man” after that tulane touchdown?

PETE GOLDING ACTION FIGURE RUN THE SCORE UP FIRST ROUND CFP

there is a lot of literature composed in many languages about how a person like miller will be punished in the hereafter. damte has a sense of humor, but not even he would find a laff about this ghoul, and he buried mangled corpses under an endless ice field in the bottom ring of hell

hosted bar spelling bee on sunday and here’s me giving Disappointed Professor Face to my friend botching the word “florid”

RIP Joe Ely www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5zb...

graduate bought me this as a thank you gift and it’s incredible. it has an entire appendix listing collective nouns (“murder of crows” etc.)

HRNG PEPPERMINT ROLL

who made that deadspin comment on the philip rivers gif “woooo peppermint roll!” all those years ago?