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For the Iliad, I think Fagles is better on the page and Wilson is better as performed audio, the latter of which surprised me because I love the Fagles Iliad.

*Argos typos

Argh, typos.

Ok for Pappas is clearly in the early lead for the vital Homeric skill of trash talking, but I don't recall how much the dropping of bars figured in the Peloponnesian Wars.

This is why it's so challenging for native plants to survive in these. The runoff includes a lot of salt and a dose of oil, and then dogs come along and add a little acid. I call this Road Vinaigrette.

Get in, loser, we're overthrowing the abbot!

Psychic Desert Grub: Now with AI!

Star Trek had the vastly less desirable grub that someone else sticks in your ear, and it's not even good with syntax .

The height of the "heritage, not hate" historical retcon era

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In 2023 I visited the mall near where I lived as a teen, and it was surprisingly bustling and recognizable, w/ many of the same stores as in the '90s. The big change was the movie theater transmografied into a bookstore, which has its own charm. My dad shopped for khakis; I went to Body Shoppe.

Skirmishes break out between The Christian bookstore and the Wiccan store

My first trip to the dentist was in a mall, why not also my last?

I love the idea of a mall as a senior center with water features & huge skylights, level walking & tai chi surfaces, affinity groups with hangouts and uneasy tensions & alliances, a playground for visiting children, and different types of services & activities in the storefronts.

There is mostly-dead-in-the-middle mall here with a somewhat lurid-looking bridge club in the former Victoria's Secret.

What's the theory?

The historically accurate activity of baking in armor from hundreds of years in the future so you're safe in your own ship

I think *every* kind of guy who contributes nothing at all uses his politics to justify why.

Legacies don't even have to keep their grades up.

Sometimes you have to dress from what you can fish out of the donation barrel.