February 2012
36 posts
twentypercentcooler asked: These myths you like so much are a goddamn horrorshow, Benito.
twentypercentcooler asked: An excellent answer, but it still skipped over the last bit about how apparently people were all like "What an adorable swan, I think I'll have sex with it."
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1811 DICTIONARY OF THE VULGAR TONGUE →
pulpatoon:
Time to spice up our Internet jargon, you cunning whipsters.
jordannwitt asked: What is your favorite ghost story? Or, if you can't choose a favorite, what's one that you like a lot?
mindless-entertainment asked: Do you listen to music when you write? If so, what kind? What do you do if you have Writer's Block?
theallnewadventuresofjabsen asked: Are you a podcast listener? If so, What's you fav'rit?
aalgar asked: What's your favorite fake language?
koltron asked: But wasn't there a pope who summoned demons just because he could and then beat them back into hell?
anbaric asked: Unca Benito, I just found out from a friend that your name is also the name of a famous book. What's up with that?
aalgar asked: I really wanted to think of a cool mythological thing to ask you about, but unfortunately all I have is this one about punctuation. Okay. So. When I was in school, some twenty years ago, I was taught that the correct way to type a list of things was like this: "peaches, pears, plums and tangerines." But now, apparently, all of that has changed. Now I'm supposed to say "peaches,...
twentypercentcooler asked: Unca Benito, who is the better Public Domain character: Hercules, Dracula, Robin Hood or King Arthur?
twentypercentcooler asked: Unca Benito, who was the worst Pope?
twentypercentcooler asked: Unca Benito, who are the best Silver Age DC characters who aren't Metamorpho and Jimmy Olsen?
twentypercentcooler asked: Unca Benito, you like a lot of old stuff like ghosts and myths, but do you also like new things, like the Internet or tacos made of doritos?
nieljacoby asked: Why isn't there a Green Lantern series that's basically Space Dragnet?
koltron asked: So am I the only one shipping the piano playing guy and all of the chairs in the music room... I mean are there any cases of mythology getting cleaned the same way a lot of the Bible did like when some translators replaced references to genital being cut off with feet or other limbs getting cut off?
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ellenigor said: “As I kid I thought it was so mean to steal her away, but then it felt like they slowly learned to get along. In my mythological canon they’re the stablest couple among the gods. Once Persephone made Minthe…umm, minty, Hades got the picture.”
DO YOU KNOW: I agree with this 100%.
10000bananatrees asked: I wrote a poem referencing Persephone "coupling" with her captor. A friend insists classical sources do not support such behavior, and that P "ate some pomegranate seeds" but "never had relations with that god", and this sex nonsense is the fault of teenagers on the internets. My counter-argument was mostly "she is a lady in GrecoRoman myth, come on", but I...
Not by the Direct Method.: Apes and man →
jessnevins:
Quoting from H.W. Janson’sApes and Ape Lore in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance:
The ape’s lack of tail had, of course, been noted in classical times, but it was not until the advent of Christianity that this member—or the absence of it—achieved metaphysical significance. Had not the Lord…
Really interesting topic, but I find myself distracted by the fact that ἄπνγος...
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January 2012
40 posts
Admit it, you want to read this, right?
jessnevins:
Our Lady, a Parable for Moderns (1938). Mary, the mother of Jesus, travels to the modern world with the help of a demon and a sorceress. Priests find her and imprison her in a convent so that the real facts of her life and her first born son will never become known. Satire to that point, but then the the priests exorcise her, and the whole thing becomes Catholic horror.
The author?
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