Daniel Lavery
No One Ever Wants To Talk About The Vestal Virgins Who Don't Get Buried Alive For Breaking Their Vows
You know it's true what they say, how happy is the blameless vestal's lot.
Crap Celebrity Sightings: Someone On A Train
"Readers submit past sightings of celebrities who do not interest them personally and explain what happened." Here's mine.
People Ought to Stop Emailing Me
Sometimes I think I'm done answering emails and then I get more emails in response to the emails I thought had sorted out the last of the questions anybody wanted to ask me. Also I get emails every time I buy a shirt.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep, Ranked
"But in the long run it is Ma'at which endures." Maybe!
In An Ever-Changing World I'm Grateful For The Reassuring Familiarity of Raffle-Ticket Technology
A lot of things seem to be changing these days. Not the way they give out raffle tickets, though.
Looks Like the Very Real Apega of Nabis Is Coming Over – I Can't Wait To Give Her a Hug, As I Am Sure She Is Not Covered With Hidden Nails
"[Nabis, tyrant of Sparta] next had constructed a kind of machine, if machine it may be called, which was the figure of a woman, clothed in costly garments, and made to resemble with extraordinary fidelity the wife of Nabis." So far so good!!
Thank You For Taking Our Brief Survey About Pharaoh Djoser
How much time would you be willing to personally invest in building the first-ever step pyramid?
A. At least as much time as spent on previous monuments made of mud brick
B. As much time as was necessary
C. No more than nineteen years
Dante's Inferno, Canto V
By the nine hundred and nineteenth I felt sad. "Is there someone else to talk to?"
Types of Watching, Ranked
I'm sorry in advance to the birdwatchers, who may feel that they deserve to be higher on this list, but my ruling is final.