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@Heritage_Guy twas a grand time!

@jordanscollected said in IRON HEART WAYWT - 2026 EDITION:

Shoutout and huge thanks to @mclaincausey for recent pickup.

Chopped Wabash shorts (not sure the original pants model)
A New Medium indigo dyed Tee
DannerxProof

They look great on you! So glad they found a good home!

We stayed in a calm, cozy A frame built and furnished according to Hygge philosophy for a single night and it was incredibly restorative. It reframed our priorities and objectives in life. The hygge life is the best life.

@WhiskeySandwich I gotchuuu https://psychedelicious9.com/products/king-glizzy-and-the-lizard-wizard-retro-rock-graphic-t-shirt

He has another one with all their album covers tiled on it and a very sick Angine de Poitrine shirt

My buddy designed these

@endo true. Homer “himself or themselves,” I should have said.

@Nick

@ARNC yep! I mean it’s Bronze Age occurrences versus Iron Age retelling. Homer himself had anachronisms in the original source material. He was recording (with poetic license) oral traditions from centuries ago, through an intervening dark age of civilizational collapse. In fact I shouldn’t have used the term “city states.”

So we shouldn’t treat The Odyssey in any form as historiography. Never was.

Nothing wrong with that at all. I’m probably one myself.

I don’t think Odyssey is the right vehicle for it, but I am now curious to see what Bronze Age life would have authentically looked like in Ancient Greece. Would they be wearing their armor at all times and swimming effortlessly in it? How did men and women, and parents and children, really address one another? How different was Sparta from Athens? Did Ithaca even exist? Where was it and what was it like? How did members of different city-states interact and get along?

Totally agree on Fight Club, as sacrilegious as it feels to admit it.

Yeah, fair. Though I’d argue that Homer’s Odyssey is grounded in a retelling and recording of oral tales he received through many retellings. At best it is a distorted recording of some aspects of how some people in antiquity saw their world and what they believed about its history. And we lack the cultural context and language to truly contextualize and understand it as they would have. So I guess I just don’t give a shit because we aren’t capable of understanding it as contemporaries would have even if it had actually occurred.

Side-note: I’d be surprised if ancient Greek theater audiences found the male actors portraying women distracting whatsoever on the basis of not looking or sounding like women. It’s interesting that modern audiences expect verisimilitude to be spoon fed to us as if we were observing real events. I wonder how widespread that is and how it evolved?

That’s one reason I think books are a superior medium. They actively engage your imagination in the act of painting the picture instead of forcing you into someone else’s vision.

I guess I just missed Nolan trying to establish realism. Magical realism? Sure. But I’m confused by all this talk about realism. People like Elon Musk saying they’re going to use AI to do a “realistic” version of the Odyssey… a myth from thousands of years ago featuring 6 headed monsters, witches who turn men into pigs, giant cyclopses, sirens, gods trifling with humans…. It’s just about like wanting to make a realistic version of Dante’s Inferno. It’s a category error.

I mean if we’re going to get hung up on white teeth we should probably also get hung up on trans, Desi, black, and Latino actors being portrayed as Greeks, no? Why is realism so important anyway? Especially for a 3,000 year old myth with clearly impossible actors and events throughout?

@GraemeE wowwwwww

La Faro I think really brought something new to jazz bass. Utterly tragic it was cut short and it seemed to really haunt Evans. Can’t wait for that one.

The Odyssey was terrific. Of course they took some liberties with a story that has very odd moments for modern audiences, and of course it wasn’t a perfectly authentic lens into antiquity, but I thought it felt like what Homer wrote about and was just superb all around.

So very happy for Spain. What a wild game. Exemplar of how the tilt isn’t always reflected in the score in football like many matches this tournament.

@prpx that’s some good shit. Love NMN, THB, and DB.

9.5D on the spot with a bit of arch and the JL 9.5 is like a size too big.

@SourPower that’s badass!

@Anesthetist that’s sick, the ole logo from Dose. I’ve heard their new bassist is amazing.

I didn’t like what Tuchel had to say about his team after the Mexico game either. It was disrespectful to Mexico and his team at the same time.

Anyway, I imagine he’ll get his walking papers soon enough.