Ep 7: My love is like a red red grawlix
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– You still can’t read Ryan Wilson’s translation of Catullus XI
– Etymology problems
– Are curses real? (Yes)
– Mean shit vs. maledictions
– Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals
– Shylock was on to something
– The dozens
– The Onion’s post 9/11 article “Hijackers Surprised to Find Selves in Hell”
– Two less-than-great reactions to the death of Osama bin Laden
– David Ferry’s The Odes of Horace
– Horace I.37– Ben Folds’ song “Song for the Dumped”
– CeeLo Green’s song “Fuck You”
– SLEERICKETS’ nonexistent Patreon
– Heather McHugh’s poem “Earthmoving Malediction”
– Everette Maddox’s poem “Anonymous”
– Yeats’ poem “No Second Troy”
– Mary Jo Salter’s poem “No Second Try”
– Thomas Gray’s poem “Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes”
– My scientifically unimpeachable neurotransmitter analogy
– Steve Scafidi’s poem “To Whoever Set My Truck on Fire”
Errata: Contrary to an offhand remark I make in this episode, “piss” is not, in fact, of Anglo-Saxon origin, but rather of Old French! And my reading of Horace I.37 does come off as kind of sarcastic even though I say he’s not being sarcastic. And also, yes, I for some reason make a big deal at the end about not doing biographical readings right after recording a whole episode that’s just crammed from top to bottom with biographical readings. What can I say? I’m a fucking genius.
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