Monthly Archives: December 2025

What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?

Posted on December 31, 2025 by JE

Happy New Year to all on the Gregorian calendar. Happy Wednesday/Thursday to all. https://indiaandersonmusic.bandcamp.com/track/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve

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Magnet of Dull

Posted on December 31, 2025 by JE

I watched Melville’s 1963 film L’aîné des Ferchaux (“The Elder Son of the Ferchaux Family”, also known as Magnet of Doom or An Honorable Young Man). It’s got some reputation as a road movie, and for the first half of … Continue reading →

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Of Men and Mollusks

Posted on December 30, 2025 by JE

Came across this choice bit of abuse this afternoon: πλεύμονα αὐτὸν ἐκάλει καὶ ἀγράμματον καὶ ἀπατεῶνα καὶ πόρνον.—Diogenes Laertius 10.8 I render this as: “He <Epicurus> calls him <Democritus> a mollusk and an illiterate and a cheat and a whore.” … Continue reading →

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