Josh Menchions: the King of Comedy. In Newfoundland.

 
LINK: https://youtu.be/Nh9PzrLARcQ

Daemon Must Die, Daenerys Must Die, Jon Snow Must Die: the Real Villains of ASOIAF & HOTD.

LINK: https://youtu.be/2fEIeJEZAMM

I said "Daemon Blackfyre" when I meant "Daemon Targaryen" AGAIN.  Throughout THE WHOLE VIDEO.  You'll figure it out.  House of the Dragon Season 3. #hotd #asoiaf  #hotdseason3 #season3 #s3 #grrm #gameofthrones For those who don't know, "ASOIAF" = A Song of Ice and Fire, a broader category (of books) that includes both House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones.

The dotted line between poetry and reality: the dotted line between Catullus and Cicero.

The source being quoted (and promoted) here was written in a less barbaric and brutal era of internet communications, 2014, when humanity was not exclusively devoted to wearing a mask, wielding a knife, and stabbing itself in the back:

‘Adulter, impudicus, sequester‘ convicium est, non accusatio.

(‘Adulterer, pervert, dealer in bribes’, this is the language of slander, not of prosecution.)

The strange tale told (and in large part concealed) in Cicero's strange Pro Caelio is the only evidence we have that what Catullus had to say about his own sex life was not fictional —and was not intended to be seen as fictional by his contemporaries.

Our Pro Caelio purports to be the speech delivered by Cicero to conclude the defence; a speech which is famous among classicists for its over-the-top denunciation of the sexual mores of the prosecution’s star witness, Clodia (a woman alleged to have been the inspiration for Catullus’ lover, [referred to in his poems by the pseudonym] Lesbia).

Here is the short article I am drawing your attention to:

https://whatwouldcicerodo.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/power-corruption-and-lies-in-defence-of-caelius/

The author is still alive and (as is typical of this era of the internet) continues posting to Instagram, but no longer to his (long abandoned) blog, linked to above.

https://www.instagram.com/sillettandrew/

York University —quite possibly the most miserable place on this earth that I have ever set foot— somehow ended up making a translation of the Pro Caelio available to the public without crediting the translator.

[Cicero:] But now I will handle her [Clodia, a.k.a. Catullus's Lesbia] with moderation, and proceed no further than my honor and the case itself demand. I have never thought it right to take up arms against a lady, especially against one whose arms are so open to all.

The denunciation that ensues, delayed by many digressions to contrast the morals of "the fallen age" we are (now) living in to the glorious past of a still-more-ancient Greece and Rome, tells us more about Cicero's character than it does about Clodia or or Caelio or Catullus.

https://www.yorku.ca/pswarney/Texts/pro-caelio-trans.htm

What I do is esoteric: I don't explain anything to anyone.

What if this is going nowhere? #HOTD #ASOIAF

 

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUptMmb9IKs

House of the Dragon Season 3. #hotdseason3 #season3 #s3 #grrm #gameofthrones For those who don't know, "ASOIAF" = A Song of Ice and Fire, a broader category (of books) that includes both House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones.

Emily Ratajkowski, you're wrong for this one.

I think this one is not appropriate for any of my podcasts… so it will remain a youtube exclusive.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7hkc-nlxVU

Here's the link to the article… although it is an article about an article, I note. https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/emily-ratajkowski-used-sex-to-become-new-woman-after-divorce/ She has said of herself that she stopped having sex with her husband around precisely this time when he'd cheated on her ("[they] stopped being intimate six months after she gave birth") although I would not assume a six month timeline, nor would I assume they had a wonderful sex life immediately before those six months —I would just assume that the decline of their sex lives, as a couple, was somehow related to his infidelity (perhaps his infidelity was the cause of the decline, rather than merely being an effect of the decline, we don't know).

Like Pythons Pretending to Be Ants.

Is anyone else here old enough to remember Couchsurfing?

Supernatural aspects of daily life: esoteric aspects of nihilism.

Happiness: a mask without a face.

The longest three minutes of your whole entire life. ;-)

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qYW-yrsTAK0

La Guerre est Finie: Operation Blue Star, 1984.

It would be reasonable to say that within the last ten years these events have had unforeseen consequences in Canada more dire than those in India. The Sikh separatist movement now "unites" Canada with India, in a surreal sense of the term, and yet of course also divides the Canadian government against India from time to time.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYh3lw8nP0Y

Quitting Esperanto to Learn Chinese, the International Language OF LOVE.

Yeah, look, I'm not going to try to explain the humor of the thing… if one thousand people see the video, fully one hundred of them will find it hilarious… and I can't exactly apologize to the other 900. ;-) More than one language and more than one inexplicable internet subculture is involved here. 🦓

This was uploaded to à-bas-le-ciel under the title above, Quitting Esperanto to Learn Chinese, the International Language OF LOVE.

LINK: https://youtu.be/MeclMkB-hgY

It's on my other channel (Eisel Mazard: Monolingual Polyglot) under the more "pointed" title, Polyglot Secrets: Why Evildea Moved to China, THE REAL REASON.

LINK: https://youtu.be/fD9mgqLMTCQ