I have had very good results from Natty Shirts. I have bought a dozen or so over the years, either spearpoint collar or rounded. I like Natty because I absolutely need a breast pocket for my spectacles, and I have longer arms; I also love the choice of fabrics and of course the price.
Wow. First Fedora Lounge event I EVER went to, in 2007 I think, my wife and I met Cacklewack/Matt along with MK, Brooksie, and one other person at the McMenamin's St. John in Portland! Cacklewack was a really nice person.
Lucian Freud, the last Habsburg, and Amy Winehouse. I just finished listening to "Back to Black" in honor of the last; I may reread "The Fall of the Dynasties" in honor of the second, and look at the colossal ugly (but amazing) nudes of Freud in honor of him.
Moderately repulsive thing on Roman sewer full of human excrement and some moderately interesting other things. I recently saw an entire highly scientific book on coprolites and the archaeological usage of human excrement to understand things about the past; I cannot say that I would wish to...
Nice to see the summer straws out. I bought a Panama yesterday, but I think I'll buy another straw today, something along the lines of what Javier has. Very handsome.
The HBO tv series "Rome" was great. I enjoyed Gladiator. I hated "Troy." Hated "Alexander." I'd love to be a consultant to a series about the Spartan Empire under Lysander.
Thanks Tango. But to be fair, a lot of people who get PhDs are partially doing it because they are not married and do not have children and do not have much ambition to make money and are content staying in graduate school for many, many years. Grad school can be a slacker haven if a person can...
Thanks, all!
The dissertation that I wrote is entitled "Demographic Fluctuation and Institutional Response in Sparta." It concerns the causes and effects of the population crisis in Sparta from the fifth to the early second centuries BC. It gives a new analysis of the seventh-century BC Spartan...
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