Attention Professors Wyke, Solomon, etc.

The sword-and-sandals revival continues.

This has me both interested and worried. I'd like to think the movie will be less problematic than the write-up on the PBS website, although they seem mostly to follow Tacitus with admittedly necessary embellishments.

(But "Murdered ... by the madman Nero" my ass!)

Also, a Trojan war movie is coming out next spring with Brad Pitt as Achilles, Eric Bana as Hector, Sean Bean as Odysseus, and Orlando Bloom as that scamp, Paris. Oh, and Peter O'Toole as Priam! But one dares not hope that the cast will make it a good movie.

(After initial disdain, I've come to respect Mr. Pitt over the years. -- But, vaguely on this topic, I'm not ready to accept DiCaprio as Big Alex.)


In other news, it's time to face the fact that I probably can't credit myself for drinking half-caff. coffee if I make it double strength.

cool!

So ms_ntropy and couplingchaos just unexpectedly graced my drab office with their fair countenances for a few minutes.

I must now write a "what the hell do you want us to do *that* for?" note to one of our journal contributors, which is less interesting than it sounds, and that's written in the full understanding that it might not actually sound interesting to you at all.

Also, the department chair has waved some magic wands, and it looks like I'm tuition-free for another year and possibly will even get free health insurance. That'd be keen.

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