So the latest issue of the Veronica Mars character blog is up over at
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There has been a lot of fandomy talk on my flist in the past couple of days, but I don't want to re-hash that here. I'd rather just tell you how much I think you all rock. If I had the time I would write something nice about you individually but Hellenistic Greece (not to be confused with Hellenic Greece) demands to be studied and written about, so ( Read more... )

I wish I'd never seen the film Alexander, Oliver Stone's 'vision' of one of history's greatest leaders. The film gets a lot of the history right but unfortunately they cast Colin Farrell as Alexander. He is devoid of the charisma that the real Alexander had and had to have in order to achieve what he did.

And as I write this essay on  Alexander the ( Read more... )