Running through Nicola White’s neighborhood is a portal to the past. It leaves clues and remnants of past ages. She has no need for time machines when the River Thames is accessible. For generations the Thames has been the receptacle of generations of trash. What man has thrown away in the Thames, has fallen to…
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(Editor’s note* The following is satire (the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues). Stealing Stonehenge By Rob Cain SECRET EMAIL COPY (1 OF 4) To: President of the Hellenic Republic (Πρόεδρος της Ελληνικής Δημοκρατίας) Katerina…
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Torturing Day By Rob Cain Begging is boring. No one wants to talk to you. Pariah and outcast. You are nothing to them. They don’t look at your face. You are shadow. A hand. An open palm. A taker. Worthless street trash to be stepped around. They speed up their step as soon as you…
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The Bacchae was written by the Athenian playwright Euripides. (small blast of trumpets) It won first place in a city’s playwriting competition called the Dionysia. It is a tragedy, based on a myth of King Pentheus who slanders a god. In those days, you never slander a god. Do that, and bad things happen. To doubt that…
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(Editor’s Note: The painting above is titled “The Procession of the Trojan Horse” by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. I had to look up the meaning of the words “Paladi Votum” written on the flank. It means: “An offering to Pallas Athena.”) (Small burst of trumpets) TROY. (pause) Illium (pause) An ancient city at Hissarlik, in present day Turkey. A powerful…
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Bob Balaban Rebecca Hall RIchard Kind Reeve Carney Morgan Spector Reggie D. White Christopher Lloyd Alec Baldwin A Night to Remember By Rob Cain My cousin sent me a heads up. It seems there is a yearly event called The Decades Ball, at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City, and since my tux…
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I was sitting outside Starbucks today, and saw this lady with this interesting Teeshirt. She was one of two conducting a leadership conference for entrepreneurs and she and her partner were handing out appreciation awards to their team. They were about to break up and head over to “registration” when I stopped her for a…
Read MoreEditor’s Note: A note from Rob Cain (Stray thoughts). I am told that in Kipling’s time of the RAJ, that there were Brits that stayed in India rather than return home. Kipling himself, was born in India. Though there are many similarities and differences between Imperial Britain and the Roman Empire, Kipling’s poem (below) has…
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An Original Story in an Original Time Now available on the online store Sellfy is an original story written by Rob Cain. Titled ORGY HOUSE it tells the tale of a young girl’s journey to Rome where she meets her aunt Hilaria. This is a story about the harsh realities of the ancient world told…
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Matthew Leigh Embleton joins Ancient Rome Refocused. For Season 6 of Ancient Rome Refocused composer and writer Matthew Leigh Embleton will be joining the podcasts to deliver lectures on his favorite subjects about the ancient world. Embleton has been a welcomed Ancient Rome Refocused contributor for many years, and now he will drop in via…
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