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senior greek & latin lecturer at college of charleston and sometime writer & editor. he/his/him. email: jimlohmar@gmail.com
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I HAVE AN ARMY IN CHARLESTON (non-problematic) THAT HAS BEEN BITCHING ABOUT THIS SINCE THE HIRE AND SKED RELEASE
not sure if he’s read his “the jungle” but he’s of that era
vergil and dante saunter into the presser, smiling hungrily
bill belichick welcome to a wildcat strike and happy college football labor day friendo
blink-182 is playing up at our local tennis stadium in chuck tonight 🙏🏻
it’s a good ep
the line of them outside the university in berlin is also pretty striking
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Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.
deadspin commentariat is back
[rubbing my eyes trying to focus the morning after a friday happy hour] does that say FSU at stanford?
but now their road games skeds are *hilarious*
looks like vox media deep sixed my sister’s obituary at red cup rebellion. anyway, she woulda turned 33 today. i’m sorry, lizzie
[I’m a woman in every jason bourne film ever]: hey jason will you make sure that they get a shot of my hair and me washing my hands that’s what we do in these movies
simple rebuke to ai reach is it has no human soul, in the strong sense of the word. it doesn’t love, doesn’t yearn. it doesn’t get butterflies before a first date or giddiness on the first day of school. this is what i told my students today on the 1st day of class when i banned ai use outright
hugh freeze has hired nyc mayor eric adams as linebackers coach at auburn university
[boarding my private flight to hungary and a bag of potato chips falls out of the overhead] oh, oh my
curious what the university of nebraska thinks about this nomenclature on the cusp of football season
we knew our readership
at sb nation’s height i woulda blogged this at red cup under the hed “new ole miss mascot just dropped” and it would do numbers
the dictionary @merriam-webster.com is pretty good on bsky i hope they get back to you darth. from the latin “gross”
even petronius’ trimalchio thinks this a bit gauche
hell yes
does gainesville have one of these yet
@shutdownfullcast.bsky.social hey y’all as a resident faculty listener you should know that at college of charleston dorm move-in today a dad was unloading incoming student’s dorm kit and vaping. vape dad has officially entered the extended universe
ΗΣΦ, the national honor society for classical studies, was founded by students at the university of chicago (and northwestern)
he’s also too entrenched with monied “left”
redistribution of wealth (complimentary)
another successful bar spelling bee. winning word was polysyllabic; word of the night: jejune
jeff goldblum bowl preview
“88-foot tall” flagpoles can’t be coincidence right
this is friggin’ great
but did he break the boards???
myriad is an adjective not a noun also this whole post sucks bad
best pod on the internet, these friendos do good goddamn work
100 minutes into the @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social saga on arkansas football and now the bobby petrino shit starts; y’all i gotta make dinner for my motorcycle crash wife and kids
even caligula finds this a bit much
thank you charleston weather ❤️
more coming to north chuck?
in the absence of speed currently on network tv this will have to do
nero’s golden house in rome was built on confiscated land
zeus and jupiter are connected linguistically, which means we’ve always been bitching about the weather
dante’s inferno ends in an ice field and even he would be like “damn bruh, this shit sucks”
not even the homeric poets have a word for how hot it is right now
wow jf this is pretty damning
EXON 102: extortion is good, actually
is wenis on here?
[approaching my younger brother in the middle of a 50 luxury car heist on a 12 hour deadline] hey man, you alright?
ep3 is essentially a zombie plot. is ludya now infected from her husband (trope)? she’s also pregnant (trope). infected too? also, science expert detained by anonymous authorities (trope) enlisting of new militarists (trope)
❤️ thank you
ep2’s horror of course comes in the final minutes: no dialogue (trope), dosimeters drowning out your ears (hitchcock soundtrack trope), and flashlights failing (trope). also the dudes are wading in lava/radioactive water (trope)
villain number 1b is always smoking a cigarette, even and especially when he’s meeting with his bosses. don’t smoke cigs in horror flicks
people didn’t like the dog killing but in the oral history source material that stuff really stuck in survivors’ minds
characters kinda know what killer is, but either be nonchalant (horror trope), concerned lover dismissed (trope), expert dismissed (trope), hubristic authority figure (trope), killer still rages (trope)
goodbye online pedant i am muting you and will never hear from you again
about to start a rewatch of hbo’s CHERNOBYL under the academic aegis of a horror film where only the viewer knows who/what the eventual killer is. this is lesson planning
thanks pedant not even from my discipline goodbye
linear a and linear b are literally spreadsheets. it took an american mathematician, not a classicist, to decipher them. the letter A is an inverted cow head
[me at hardware store selling you on foam wasp killer] think murder hand soap, but for wasps
brand is strong
go barves
dying
ol’ ball coach knew brushwork
i emailed fox that i’m leaving south carolina for austria and they offered me a hosting gig for $200k
oh no not the luxury real estate market
Some of my fellow Jews think a college kid wearing a kaffiyeh is a greater threat to their personal safety than an authoritarian government rounding up people to send to torture camps and the world's richest man who made a Nazi AI, and I'm really not sure what to say to them anymore.
the shutdown fullcast is an internet hosted podcast covering video games, regional cuisine, and dad back sweat. it has been hosted by bemcer thrall since 1987
cacchin’mancipitum
“metellus entered numidia with his army, tense and dangerous, where in place of the appearance of war were cottages full of people and herds and farmers in the fields … they even offered [the romans] food”
sallust, war with jugurtha, ch. 46:
yeah but unlike us they make money doing it
i had the thought and now you have to also: school house rocks but entirely ai generated
Because "weird merch" is my stress relief tool, I put some Penny stickers up on the Fullcast store if you want to explain to strangers why you have a sticker of someone else's jacket. All proceeds from these are gonna go to the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund: preownedairboats.com/products/pen...
our most correct and consistent voice. they want to enslave the labor force, abolish “dangerous” institutions of higher learning, and enslave everyone, not them, to produce for themselves while the rest of us die
on which side of the enslavement of america will they fall
i filled this out earlier in the week and it’s refreshing how clear eyed and upfront defector staff want to be with themselves. their questions are specific and urgent
john le carré wrote a whole novel about this. the robber baron at the center of the scheme hauled in £10 million on one transaction
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mamadani is just a regular dude who wants the best for his friends and neighbors. the elite response has been “we hate regular dudes who want the best for their friends and neighbors”
the copier needs more toner
ASPECTS OF MOVING, RANKED: 1. stressful 2. expensive 3. whale shit 4. soreness 5. bottom of the ocean
[extremely podcaster voice] and to your point,
lmao my dissertation director has been following me here all along and i had no idea
fuck
oh cool five more people with depression
fucking hell that is cutty’s
holly plz speak it
i live in jim clyburn’s district in SC and when i saw he put in writing “cuomo” i was like oh hell clyburn sucks ass i hope my NYC friendos don’t elect the guy who attacks women
my gag in class when a student asks a sharp question about an arcane point of greek or latin grammar that defies explanation is to blurt “i dunno” but the version of “i dunno” that doesn’t include consonants. today i asked them to spell a dr. lohmar “i dunno”
perfect sports blog
i hope whoever edited this laughed as hard as i did at that graf
Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice
dude jurisdictional supersede
didn't they also authorize us marshals for this shit?
We were very happy to give this scoop to @marisakabas.bsky.social's The Handbasket because it is important to support independent journalists who are doing the hard work at this time. Giving this story to Marisa also guarantees it will be in The Washington Post verbatim exactly 48 hours later.
turns out you can predict the weather
for the toilet yes
she drafted the alliterative hed without thinking and then wrote the oped right