Yeah, yeah, no posts. But this is too good not to share. Based on my personal library and other people who have a lot of the same books, LibraryThing can whip up a list of recommendations.

Topping the list is Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. I can already guess this will be good.

3. The Histories- Herotodus
6. The Annals of Imperial ( Read more... )

I have a blog, you guys. I need a place to talk and LJ is weird for me since you're used to me not talking. I get nervous.

This is themed, anyways: gay history. Teaching to the interwebs is go!

http://hyakinthia.blogspot.com/

I didn't make a post for International Blog Against Racism Week last year. I'm not sure why. Maybe I thought I didn't have anything to add that all these wonderful people are not already saying. But I do have things to say, as everyone else who lives in this great big wonderful fucked-up world should, just by virtue of interacting with people who ( Read more... )

Oh my god. I've been laughing at the joke all morning, and then one of the construction workers across the way attacked some girl on the pedway like an hour ago. There was something going on ever there this morning, but I wasn't paying attention; I just thought it was kind of weird when they stopped working over there. And groaning, shuffling ( Read more... )

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deadmentalking is a sockpuppet roleplaying community where the players take on the personas of famous dead people, such as Shakespeare, Marie Antoinette, Oscar Wilde, anyone they can think of. I remember when it was created- February of last year, I believe?- and that for a while it was a fast-paced, high-intellect center of madness and hilarity. It has, ( Read more... )

I'm feeling very lonely right now... I have a friend I haven't seen in a long time- three years- who I was just reading the blog of. She's going through tough times because of (in my opinion) poor descision making, with depression stacked on top. While I was reading, I suddenly missed her so badly I nearly cried ( Read more... )

Welcome to International Blog Against Racism Week ( Read more... )

MY IPOD DUMPED ALL OF ITS MUSIC. WHY DID MY IPOD DUMP ALL OF ITS MUSIC.

Help! I didn't even do anything to it, just unplug and replug it so my computer would see it again. D: