Meet The Romans | Mary Beard

The Romans started to come together for me while watching I Claudius some years back but only in a chronological kind of way. To get some real texture I recommend Mary Beard's Meet the Romans three part series. Mary's focus is on ordinary Roman life and after watching all three of these it's unlikely you'll find Roman history so abstract or remote as it has been previously.

There's some great scenes including the thumbnail cover for video two above where Mary sits in the public latrines. We don't know if men and women sat together but up to 40 people sitting in an open room taking a shit is fascinating anthropology. Just imagine how liberating it would be to know you're not the loudest, longest, smelliest or messiest. 

Or even if you are how you would post rationalise it as 'only nature'.

I'd love to take a shit Roman style just to appreciate modern conveniences a bit more.

The Artist Taxi Driver on Establishment Paedophilia

The Artist Taxi Driver reminds us of some salient facts regarding the establishment paedophiles who are tasked with investigating themselves. You may recall that the Queen said nothing about establishment paedophiles in her annual speech. 

The reasons for this and other silences are obvious to the human that is awake and aware.

Gordon Duff & Stew Webb | Top Notch Interview

Gordon Duff admits that much of what he claims is disinformation, but you'd be making a mistake not to keep an eye on what he says because I too missed this interview and it's stuffed full of the sort information that even Gordon is reluctant to repeat too often.

I don't get the time to review everything I'd like to, but I'm often pinged links in Twitter and I invariably try to check out as much as I can. This is one of those links and it's worth putting an hour or so aside to listen to.