Did this program about a decade ago, in grad school, and it was one of the best learning experiences I’ve had. If you, try to go.

*everybody who has paid off or is still paying off their bachelor's degree in classics* OK THANKS CHRIS I'VE GOT THIS IT'S GENITIVE OF SUUM GENUS, "HIS/HER/ITS OWN KIND," GENITIVE OF ATTRIBUTE, YOU GOT ANY MORE QUESTIONS LIKE THIS YOU CALL ME UP OK I'M RIGHT OVER HERE

Agree with this deeply until the Aeneid enters the conversation

Edina, MN. I’d also say Monticello (because of the more famous one) but that dang C can go both ways

I used to sell Dippin’ Dots as my summer job during the 00s. If a customer asked me my favorite flavor, I always said vanilla. They only rarely got it, but it is. Truly. And vanilla Dots as a root beer float? That’s bliss

Lost a spelling bee in elementary school because I thought there were two spellings for SENTENCE, one for the “prison” kind and one for the “group of words/phrases” kind.

Has to be that “ye” like “ye olde shoppe” wasn’t pronounced “yee” but the y is how they represented the now-lost letter thorn (þ, a th- sound)

Been out of the field for a minute but UChicago seemed like one of the bastions that would never fold only a few years ago…

This idea also applies to what people say on the internet: You can just…not like a thing. You don’t have to announce it to the world. It’s much easier

Not now Moby Dick!

The Fabelmans (his most recent) and before that, West Side Story (the next most recent)…then you have to go back a whopping 9 years to Lincoln.

I’m biased (come get the Green Apple Sucker Ice Cream!) but some of these foods looks mighty tasty. Some also look like they’d offend the gods for their hubris. Can’t wait to try them.

You’re telling that a new writing medium was invented and in the shift to the new medium we lost volumes of the old medium? You don’t say! What a surprise!

Not my war, not my peace

The best part about these lists is seeing everyone else’s with other great movies and remembering how good movies are

Movies are good

Do you have your favourite Coen Brothers’ films? Here are my top 5. In order of like. 1. O Brother Where Art Thou? 2. Fargo 3. The Big Lebowski 4. Inside Llewyn Davis 5. No Country for Old Men #FilmSky

Epic

Chris Nolan is stepping on my corner but a 5 or 6 season show that adapts the Iliad, Aeneid, and Odyssey in that order

Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks is close to the cut off but Street Legal makes it in a walk (and you could do another 15 years after that…)

It me (on a daily basis)

Homer was famously a film buff. Watched so many movies he went blind

No, not Big Balls. How could that possibly be true?

Not even the AI read my dissertation 😩

Haven’t gotten a code for the Criterion flash sales twice now and it’s starting to make me feel lonely

Oscars Best Picture tiers: Anora The Brutalist Dune: Part Two Nickel Boys A Complete Unknown Conclave The Substance I’m Still Here Wicked Emilia Peréz

My horses? Slow!

Where all my Bob Dylan heads at?

Grad school taught me many things, but this was one of the most unexpected

Why is nobody talking about the La Croix ad (“it has 0 grams of sugar!”) in Den of Thieves 2: Pantera? Did I imagine it?

Bastard out of Carolina was the first assigned book I remember liking (if you can use that word for that book). Absolutely loathed The Awakening.

Rather pleased with this week’s #LastFourWatched

First film/Last film I watched all the Bond movies in 2024. Fun stuff! As for Nosferatu…been there!

The Order didn’t seem to click for me when I left the theater but it has lingered in my mind far longer than most films this year. Listen to del Toro!

Butter as a condiment (not as an ingredient). Buttered bread makes me uneasy

Shout out to the two greats with ties to Dinkytown, Bob Dylan and Shuang Cheng!

In a departure for Nolan, Odysseus’ wife isn’t dead in the Odyssey…sort of famously

Cannot emphasize enough how cool this is for me personally

This is the year where we get not one but two non-traditional movies about iconic figures, whose lives are marked by long periods of wandering and searching. That’s right, I’m talking about The Return and A Complete Unknown.

Would it really be Thanksgiving weekend without arguing about The Leftovers (HBO) with loved ones?

Okay, so Gladiator II. We can all agree that Denzel is excellent and anyone complaining about his accent can be ignored. He seemed to be having a ton of fun

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Can someone photoshop that little black nose thing onto Bob's BLONDE ON BLONDE face?

I wouldn’t say “known” (I’m not known really anywhere), but far and away my most popular tweet was of the egg I dyed to look like a Greek vase

Live music rules. I’d add seeing movies in a theater. Nothing beats a crowd all reacting together (good or bad, with the movie or at it).

Two of my last four were accidentally this week and…yeah #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

People who say English doesn’t split infinitives or end sentences with a preposition are just trying to make English look like Latin and, believe it or not, they are different languages with their own constructions.

Just followed a bunch of new people and am not used to them in my timeline. Don’t know whose name is real and whose is a hangover from Halloween.

if you’re in lion, STAY IN LION