What kind of lunatic would agree to write a book chapter, book review, and review a manuscript, all of which is due at the end of finals week of the Spring semester?
It’s me. I’m the lunatic.
Yes, entirely. Was a lot of work but it paid off.
World map.
110 down, 85 to go.
Here are the recipes I used.
Mole Poblano: www.kiwilimon.com/receta/pollo...
Arroz Rojo: stellanspice.com/authentic-me...
Mole poblano con arroz rojo.
Country #110 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is MEXICO 🇲🇽
Mole Poblano is chicken smothered in a sauce of chocolate, chili peppers, nuts, dried fruits, corn tortillas & bread, onions, garlic, & tomatoes. Served with Arroz Rojo, which is rice made with onions, tomatoes, peas, & jalapeño.
Bought them without realizing Hypocrisy weren’t on the bill.
I have 3 premium balcony tickets for Dimmu Borgir at the Worcester Palladium 8/6 to sell. Let me know if interested.
Somebody just asked me if I had “an imperial-size Allen wrench” & for a moment I misunderstood & was picturing a bunch of Roman lictors carrying giant Allen wrenches around. Or would it be a bundle of Allen wrenches?
HANG IN THERE BABY!
Instagram removed my post with this. Let’s see if Bluesky can do any better.
Imipolex, Plague of Carcosa, Abuse Repression, and The Formal Nightmare SAT APRIL 18TH, 2026 SANCTUARY HAMTRAMCK, MI 48212 • DETROIT Tickets Available At WWW.SANCTUARYDETROIT.COM
Excited to welcome my good friends from Maine in their death metal band Imipolex as they invade Detroit this evening. All anti-fascist bill in support!
Augustus: Traditional Heavy Metal Tiberius: Doom Metal Caligula: Pornogrind Claudius: Folk Metal Nero: Symphonic Black Metal Vespasian: Industrial Metal Titus: Glam Metal Domitian: Death/Doom Trajan: Power Metal Hadrian: Symphonic Metal Marcus Aurelius: Progressive Metal
Commodus: Deathcore Didius Julianus: 90s Metallica Septimius Severus: Thrash Metal Caracalla: Nu Metal Elagabalus: Gothic Metal Maximinus Thrax: Power/Doom Metal Decius: Black Metal Aurelian: Deathgrind Diocletian: Blackened Death Metal Galerius: Black/Thrash
Constantine: Christcore Julian: Pagan Metal Jovian: Stoner Metal
One of my shitposts from Twitter four years ago, matching Roman emperors with metal subgenres.
"God becomes what elite Roman villa owners only
dreamed of becoming: the panoptic enslaver"
some real banger lines in @chancebonar.bsky.social's book, folks...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
Ironic that you chose the lion-headed god Aeon to say that.
Was asked to fill in today to give a brief intro to Gnosticism & the Apocryphon of John
Apologies in advance to students
You'll note some patterns here. Symphonic metal = likes Greek culture. Black metal = persecutes Christians.
Pink Floyd were way ahead of them.
Augustus: Traditional Heavy Metal Tiberius: Doom Metal Caligula: Pornogrind Claudius: Folk Metal Nero: Symphonic Black Metal Vespasian: Industrial Metal Titus: Glam Metal Domitian: Death/Doom Trajan: Power Metal Hadrian: Symphonic Metal Marcus Aurelius: Progressive Metal
Commodus: Deathcore Didius Julianus: 90s Metallica Septimius Severus: Thrash Metal Caracalla: Nu Metal Elagabalus: Gothic Metal Maximinus Thrax: Power/Doom Metal Decius: Black Metal Aurelian: Deathgrind Diocletian: Blackened Death Metal Galerius: Black/Thrash
Constantine: Christcore Julian: Pagan Metal Jovian: Stoner Metal
One of my shitposts from Twitter four years ago, matching Roman emperors with metal subgenres.
For two years, I taught 4-4-3 at a small public university in order to make $50k CANADIAN with zero benefits (so I could support myself as a single person) and it almost broke me.
The people who wrote that report could never.
Sign that I'm officially an adult: just ordered next semester's textbooks BEFORE getting any harrassing emails from the university bookstore.
World map
109 down, 86 to go.
Prawn Rugaille with turmeric rice.
Country #109 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is MAURITIUS 🇲🇺
Prawn Rugaille is sautéed shrimp in a sauce of onions, garlic, tomatoes, green chili peppers, & scallions, spiced with fresh thyme & coriander. Served with turmeric rice.
Yassa poulet over couscous.
Country #108 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is MAURITANIA 🇲🇷
Yassa Poulet is a chicken, onions, garlic, carrots, chili pepper, & cabbage stewed in a sauce of cider vinegar, Dijon mustard, lemon juice, & maggi spiced with cayenne pepper & bay leaf. Served over couscous.
If Bluesky's got a hangover or whatever the least they can do is wheel in the TV cart and put on an episode of NOVA for us or something.
talking about the Odyssey and the controversies around Nolan's Movie. Thanks to
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
youtu.be/eIlAeAqMEa0?...
A Simpsons meme with Milhouse showing Bart Jeremy's cake book (on Julian Augustus) and saying, "Remember Julian? He's back, in cake form!"
Yes, I'd also read that as a surrender - his shield is on the ground. Here's another, clearer example from the same mosaic
