"Raepy rawporxhporhe wine", Kazakhstan Hats and the Indonesian Ground Loom
Last week was definitely a 9.5 on the perv-o-meter. Actually, this week too, what with the skeevy ex-senator and all. That was a special moment in my life.
So, last week. thehoyden was visiting so we did lots of nice fun things. More often than not this involved angels, but also Sherlock, and going out Saturday night for epic 80s power ballad karaoke and a disgraceful amount of wine. I really have no recollection of how much we got through, all I know is that some shady guy gave us an opened bottle which we refused to drink, dubbing it, rohypnol wine. Good thing to know no matter how drunk we get we at least retain some common sense. Except cienna who doesn't.
Thinking about it, I have no memory of where this bar was. But anyway, I got hit on by a guy with no teeth and a very drunk man who would not accept that we had no interest in him. Funnily enough, he did not believe my name was Jeff.
Somehow, I made it home that night on the last train. Weird.
On a less drunken and more unusual note, I was watching the BBCs Ancient Worlds programme last night and holy crap I'd forgotten how much I hated historical TV programmes. NO CONTEXT. NO EVIDENCE. It's all so misleading. Of course, my main hate-on for this programme, and for its presenter, might have been because of his gigantic and in my opinion (of course) erroneous, hand-waving of Ancient Egypt as a "civilisational dead-end". So, maths obviously isn't useful or anything then, right? The exportation of art and architecture had no bearing on "civilisation" or the development of imagery or building techniques at all? And don't even get me started on his continuous use of "civilisation". This presenter is supposed to be an archaeologist and a historian and he should know better than that.
Make no mistake, Mesopotamia is as fascinating as ancient Egypt, but ignoring six thousand years of continuous "civilisation" smacks of having some kind of vendetta against Egypt.
Just to not sound like a ranty, butthurt Egyptologist, there were at least a couple of good points brought up. The beginnings of centralised government being based on irrigation systems, which is something I know of from ancient Egypt, and the beginnings of writing as record-keeping. Other than that, I wanted to stab this programme a lot of the time and am not sure why I watched it. Other than to shout at the screen.
You know what, I wish there was Egyptology wank. Well, there is, but it's just not all that interesting.
I'm going to shut up now.
So, last week. thehoyden was visiting so we did lots of nice fun things. More often than not this involved angels, but also Sherlock, and going out Saturday night for epic 80s power ballad karaoke and a disgraceful amount of wine. I really have no recollection of how much we got through, all I know is that some shady guy gave us an opened bottle which we refused to drink, dubbing it, rohypnol wine. Good thing to know no matter how drunk we get we at least retain some common sense. Except cienna who doesn't.
Thinking about it, I have no memory of where this bar was. But anyway, I got hit on by a guy with no teeth and a very drunk man who would not accept that we had no interest in him. Funnily enough, he did not believe my name was Jeff.
Somehow, I made it home that night on the last train. Weird.
On a less drunken and more unusual note, I was watching the BBCs Ancient Worlds programme last night and holy crap I'd forgotten how much I hated historical TV programmes. NO CONTEXT. NO EVIDENCE. It's all so misleading. Of course, my main hate-on for this programme, and for its presenter, might have been because of his gigantic and in my opinion (of course) erroneous, hand-waving of Ancient Egypt as a "civilisational dead-end". So, maths obviously isn't useful or anything then, right? The exportation of art and architecture had no bearing on "civilisation" or the development of imagery or building techniques at all? And don't even get me started on his continuous use of "civilisation". This presenter is supposed to be an archaeologist and a historian and he should know better than that.
Make no mistake, Mesopotamia is as fascinating as ancient Egypt, but ignoring six thousand years of continuous "civilisation" smacks of having some kind of vendetta against Egypt.
Just to not sound like a ranty, butthurt Egyptologist, there were at least a couple of good points brought up. The beginnings of centralised government being based on irrigation systems, which is something I know of from ancient Egypt, and the beginnings of writing as record-keeping. Other than that, I wanted to stab this programme a lot of the time and am not sure why I watched it. Other than to shout at the screen.
You know what, I wish there was Egyptology wank. Well, there is, but it's just not all that interesting.
I'm going to shut up now.