My Facebook feed was passing around Stunning 2200-Year-Old Mosaics Discovered in Ancient Greek City like a bad cold. Except they ARE stunning.

I looked up the town, which I had never heard of in all my years studying Latin (you get to know the names of a lot of ancient Greek towns that way), and found further info and EVEN PRETTIER pictures: ( Read more... )

Did anyone get through more than 3 episodes of Parenthood? I'm about to give up on it unless assured that it will "gel."

So I just went ahead and watched the Friday Night Lights crossover project, which was the only reason I had this show in my queue.

( Tell him I said hi. )

I'm restricting myself to candidates actually published this year, even though this narrows the field sometimes to 1, and in some cases to 0…

Favorite 2014 Book: Curses and Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii by Victy Alvear Shecter. Technically, I believe this is the only 2014 novel I read. However, it was really quite good.

Favorite 2014 Short Story: ( Read more... )

I feel I could stand to watch a lot more silent films. In the clips I've ever seen, the acting seems fascinating -- more natural than later film acting; people actually go about their business and their conversations don't seem to be constantly spare and intelligent and meaningfulThis one got a link… somewhere, I forget… purely because William ( Read more... )

I've been watching t.v. (she says proudly).

Couple of thoughts… but I'm going to actually break this into several posts instead of one huge one (she says, almost fit to burst).

Game of Thrones: Everyone does realize that this is basically a soap opera, right ( Read more... )