My favorite scene in the movie; visually, audibly, any other "ly" one can think of. I suddenly feel the urge to finally sit down and read Herodotus.


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I woke up this morning with a feeling I have not had in a long, long, long time now. Sure, I talk about wishing I was still running, bitching that I am not, yada yada yada... but this morning I felt it... more than just a thought about wanting to, but an actually urgency, a drive inside to actually DO it ( Read more... )

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A 300 parody with a lot of laughs...

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This one has it's moments but it's not as funny. Cute guys though.

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Ok, This one is truly hilarious! I am sure my favorite line will be obvious.

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One thing I do have to agree with regarding some of the anti-'300' and true historical data on the Ancient Spartans was that they were hardly fighting for freedom based on what our concept of freedom is. I've seen the word "democracy" thrown around a lot. The Spartans as heroes for the future of all Western Civilization and free will ( Read more... )

I have been really crabby lately. Bitching way, way more than I usually do. And it's only exacerbated today by the fact that I am running on about an hour and a half of sleep.

I saw '300' just now. I wish I could write a sparkling, passionate review. But, I cannot. And it has nothing to do with the movie being bad. The movie was incredible. Unlike ( Read more... )

This sucks. Joey is going to see 300 right now. I am sitting at work. And I just found out, last minute of course, that they need me tomorrow morning. So any thoughts of going to see the movie first thing in the A.M. is nixed. Now I have to go tomorrow afternoon. Shit city!!! I want to see it and I want to see it NOW ( Read more... )

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I am reading this article on the Oracle at Delphi and it's fascinating. It talks about how the temple at Delphi (and at other locations with oracles) was built on a fault line where gases such as methane, ethane and ethylene filled the chamber and basically got whomever was present high. So basically, all the rulers who sought out advice on their ( Read more... )