When we visited the site this time, we were armed with a 4K video camera and so, rather than tell you about all the minute details of the sanctuary, we can now show you in the video Nemea – A Tour of the Sanctuary of Zeus… After roaming the Sanctuary of Zeus, we got in the ca...
The size and scope and lore and player history of the game… books have been written about what the players have been up to… seems to beg for a meta version that allows you to slip into the role of SirMolle or Progodlegend or Vily or Norus, or Karttoon, or Gobbins, or Darius JOH...
It’s that time of year again, the time which the Roman poet Catullus referred to as optimo dierum, the ‘best of days’. From December the 17th to the 23rd, Romans and people across the Empire would celebrate Saturn, the Winter Solstice, and the Unconquerable Sun. It can only be desc...
Win-lose behaviors in our world, especially predatory, parasitic, and competitive relationships, deflect some of the fine life-energy that streams from the source with vitality, love, truth, and other fine motivations. As a result, a spiritual “shadow” has developed around the Earth—a sort ...
few weeks, took a few days off, and have come back to it again to see if anything’s changed. But before I get to that, lets just talk about the elephants in the room with this record —- its the first album after the passing of founding guitarist/songwriter Juha Raivio’s partner ...
My wife and I were just talking about the days after I finished my first draft, in June of ‘09. “Man, remember how clueless you were?” she said, laughing. At the time she asked, “Now what?” I shrugged. “Send it to someone to read, I guess.” (My sister Marsha turned out...
The Generals of the Yang Clan is a well-known Chinese folklore about a family of warriors during the Song Dynasty. Every iteration of it may have its own story to tell, but the overarching theme is one and the same as it focuses on heroes and their unrelenting loyalty to their country....
Three months, eight days and one morning ago our huge cock was surrounded by hens, and now... tch! I'm fairly certain this is some kind of bawdy pun, but alas, I lack the insight to translate it properly. We have to catch those thieving animals and chop them into pieces! Yes, the...
This lady and I always had a pleasant time, and she’d fill in many gaps and awaken sweet memories of days gone by. One night, I got a call from the nursing home that the lady was dying and I rushed over to her bedside. She was near to death and I could hear the death rattle...
The secrets of Zen Buddhism Despite becoming one of the most famous Chinese painters of all time, Muqi struggled to find success in his home country. Born during the final days of the Southern Song dynasty, the monk’s idiosyncratic style — calligraphic renderings of mundane subjects like food...