Classics & Virtues

Although talk about the classics and the virtues can carry an elitist connotation, virtue, for me, is about the “perpetual fight against the vices” (Augustine), not achieving a state of moral purity. These two texts sum up why I named this account Classics&Virtues:

TFW you have to qualify high gas prices in Belgrade, Montana

American capital and legacy media confused that Bolsonaro’s 2 percentage point victory in the first round didn’t equate to a “mandate” like Trump’s 1.5 percentage point victory at 49.8 percent did in 2024

I haven’t been on here as much lately but I had to open it for Lula’s big dub and the vibes are beautiful 🥹

While Obama is out there focused on the Factory’s cake, Trump is focused on the real working class issue: John Husted’s Cake

Even funnier when you think back to this:

I was 7 years old so I didn’t understand all of the context, but I remember my parents watching the news channels covering it and feeling like it was a big deal

Finally a film about how creepy this phenomenon was Respect to Pattinson who is truly down for anything (complimentary!)

Most sane Rick Jackson commercial

St Augustine didn’t write City of God just so Katie Miller and the richest man in the world, who are both controlled by the libido dominandi, could get away with blaming therapy for the fall of Rome

1. Memento 2. Oppenheimer 3. The Odyssey It’s really a tie between The Prestige and The Odyssey for third I think

My LRB review of Nolan’s Odyssey would have mentioned how Sinon couldn’t have rose to surface of Hades so quickly because he is in the 10th bolgia of the 8th circle and it took Dante 30 cantos to reach him… but they didn’t ask me

Some of you weren’t born and raised in the trenches— reading Pauline Kael ruthlessly criticize your most cherished classic movies— and it shows.

I have some minor quibbles but overall, I really enjoyed it! For all the talk about how cold Nolan’s films can be, the Odyssey is one of his most emotionally resonant films. 48 hours later and I’m still processing the emotions of the images and performances.

In light of being able to finally watch The Odyssey tonight, here’s one of my favorite Odyssey-inspired poems, written by George Seferis and translated by @aestallings.bsky.social

What is this woke shit?!? The guy making justified complaints about the lazy poor is a villain? Looks like Nolan is not the only problem; that old blind bastard, Homer, caught the woke mind virus as well!

Imagine thinking that casting a black woman as Helen is a threat to Western Civilization but cutting all humans out of the artistic process is not. Makes one question his actual commitments to humanity…

Randomly came across this post from a relatively small account but man… Equating the success of Nolan’s Odyssey to China’s First Five-Year Plan is elite poasting

Nickel Boys

when the one who gives the bath gets washed

Cabo Verde spiritually won this World Cup 🇪🇸🙏🏻🇨🇻

We Are Lamine Yamal We Carry The Flame

(Explaining the World Cup game to a football fan) a point in soccer is worth 7 in American football, so England had 28 points in the third quarter...

A Falcons stray by a Brit commentator in a third place World Cup game… I’ll never be free

Nolan, who doesn’t own a smartphone and only use the computer for research/writing, is just a normie who thinks that hospitality is important (hence why he chose the Odyssey now) Meanwhile, Asmongold, whose worldview is solely reliant on internet fever swaps, doesn’t shower Choose your fighter

solomon in 1 Kings 3

It’s a shame that Bellingham plays for perfidious Albion, because I really like him

Norway subbing off Haaland

Haaland on Saturday in Miami:

It’s Moroccover 😔

Go Morocco!

Why yes!

Haaland on Saturday in Miami:

Not quite as Dantean as an unlikely Balogun own goal but the goalie screw up will work just fine for divine justice

Happy for Audrey Hepburn, René Magritte, and Hercule Poirot

The USA just got PIPED DOWN 🇧🇪

Money Mike with the accurate score prediction. More proof that baseball and soccer are spiritual cousins

Oh man, putting England and Norway, our palest countries, in Miami in July feels like a cruel prank

Sheinbaum put in the call

English commentator referenced Red Sox v Yankees as an analogy for the two benches beefing