Jim Lohmar
@jimlohmar.bsky.social
senior greek & latin lecturer at college of charleston and sometime writer & editor. he/his/him. email: jimlohmar@gmail.com
dante sees this guy in hell tortured by infinite horseflies
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · last wk.Buddy got Resting If He Dies He Dies Face
an optimist sees a glass half full a pessimist sees glass that must be eaten
CHARLESTON BLUESKY: i’m giving a talk tonight about art horror philosophersandfools.com/event/2026-1...
Extra Credit: Gore Caesars
Philosophers & Fools is a bookstore, bar, and gathering place in Charleston, SC.
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AESCHYLUS: my play is 1500 lines long with operatic, sprawling choruses SOPHOCLES: my play is also 1500 lines long with beautiful, sprawling choruses that are central pieces of dialogue EURIPIDES: here. this fucker is 1160 lines long and includes a reverse peripeteia
@edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social i’m grading some classical mythology quizzes while you do this show jadan baugh is a fucking odysseus
huh if only four ball-knowers had written a sci-fi western about the history of the ncaa oh wow would you look at that www.goodreads.com/book/show/54...
The Sinful Seven: Sci-fi Western Legends of the NCAA
A collaborative book, written and edited in just 11 wee…
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somehow fernando mendoza fell to me in the dynasty draft at the 01.10 in a 10 team league. traded back out of the 01.05
EDITOR: you get that headline written? SEO GUY: yeah as much patriarchy as i possibly fit boss EDITOR: good job 👍🏻
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · last mo.Sean Lennon is a dad to former Beatle John’s first grandson
hey charleston it’s 11:03 pm but the good news is that the real feel temp is 104° which no one who lives in hurricane alley should fret about
when i was writing at red cup/sb nation i did a booze article about van gogh double espresso vodka and the us rep for van gogh vodka sent me three whole bottles of their “expressions” (they don’t call them flavors). polished all them off on my porch while organizing charleston’s dsa chapter in 2017
ODYSSEUS, TO HIS SON: telemachus, ¡el assico! must continue eternally. this is the will of zeus
Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com · 3mo agoSchedule news: Iowa and Iowa State have extended the Cy-Hawk rivalry game four more years through 2031.
i saw nolan’s odyssey tonight, and it’s excellent. in addition to wilson’s translation, i wonder if he also worked through some secondary literature such as shay’s work on PTSD in homeric epic, because there’s a lot of that in the film
the odyssey will never qualify as a true Dad Movie because odysseus famously never consults a map
i guess tuchel finally got his hands on willy wonka’s recipes
@celebrityhottub.bsky.social hey ryan will you let the rest of the fullcast crew know that i can hear it
in the original greek, the illiterate itinerant singers of the epic are explicit that odysseus looks exactly like george clooney. in fact, the name “george clooney” appears alongside “dionysus” in linear b tablets. i am seething in white hot rage over this misreading of the source material
da pope isn’t just excommunicating holocaust deniers and sex pests, he’s invalidating their *confessions* www.npr.org/2026/07/02/n...
when i was still playing, i don’t remember learning how to trap a ball coming in OVER YOUR LEFT SHOULDER
rich eisen and linda cohn swapping stories on the this was sportscenter pod of being reprimanded for jokes on air. cohn says she earned a talking to for calling mike piazza a “master batter” in a home run highlight clip
nice piece of us-croatia cultural exchange: the two croats enjoying a couple of mich ultra 2x4s during their national anthem
Radius, by Helen Frankenthaler, 1993, 📈 by Paul Carr
commence full damnatio memoriae, remove him from public space and remind us that he tried to ruin our country. erase him and condemn him, but remember the violence he was
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4mo ago99 minutes until the compliance deadline.
my phone is spammed 10+ times daily with campaign messages for this race and none of them are mace. i was rent priced out of clyburn’s and moved to *her congressional district* in 2023. she’s cooked cooked
Red@redpainter1.bsky.social · 4mo agohow badly is Nancy Mace doing in the South Carolina Gov primary? so badly that she isn't even showing up on the results lists on the news...they are just showing the top 3 or 4 vote getters per party