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average gay joe skip to main skip to sidebar average gay joe my amazon store news views america magazine art of manliness chiesa christian history magazine commonweal magazine drudge report good men project magazine homiletic pastoral review jerusalem post junk science lifehack livescience man of the house national catholic register national catholic reporter national geographic news new oxford review pajamas media real clear politics reason magazine relegere space com st anthony messenger towleroad washington blade washington post wired zenit military websites american legion american veterans for equal rights any soldier armed forces children s education fund armed forces relief fund blue alliance ecarepackage fisher house help for heroes u k historic naval ships assocation homes for our troops knights out mission capodanno naval history heritage command operation gratitude outserve palm center patriot guard riders servicemembers legal defense network servicemembers united soldiers angels us navy memorial usna out uso wounded warrior project misc websites 27b 6 9 11 gay heroes victims astronomy pic of the day best history websites biblical studies calvin hobbes comic strip catholic home study service christian gays family acceptance gay art history gay catholic forum gay christian 101 gay christian network history net how stuff works it gets better project jeramy s web space mychal s message pharsea religious tolerance retro junk scripturetext com snopes com et cetera thursday october 6 2011 bob bob from jacob frey on vimeo watch till just past the credits posted by johnagj at 6 51 pm 0 comments labels humor video thursday september 29 2011 the promised war a pretty good thriller though the end does stumble a bit an israei special ops soldier while on a dangerous mission is transported back in time to ancient jericho where he joins the israelite invasion of canaan or is it all a hoax hmm you ll have to read it to find out posted by johnagj at 12 14 am 0 comments labels good books sci fi wednesday september 28 2011 beautiful yesterday was a very rough and disappointing day forgive me if this seems rather like a jilted lover playing sad love songs over and over again but i actually find this song to be a bit of a pickmeup sappy perhaps but it s a good reminder of that a bad day doesn t mean you re a complete failure rough day but life goes on and as cliche as may sound now it does get better god bless update i m okay after an arduous and lengthy application process i didn t get the dream job yesterday that i had been hoping to get it was like a big kick in the gut after spending so much time over so many months prepping even so i m regrouping and am going to give em hell next year when i reapply posted by johnagj at 7 32 am 0 comments labels religion music video tuesday september 27 2011 edward viii the traitor king i don t know how i missed this documentary back in 1995 but i just recently came across it i had heard about edward viii s pro nazi sympathies before but never to this extent conspiring with the enemy to subvert the british government in time of war possibly giving military information to the enemy wow if these and other charges made against the ex king are true than he was indeed a disgraceful traitor as despicable as benedict arnold was that this documentary was produced by channel 4 a publicly owned station in the britain only adds to the astonishing nature of this film this documentary can be found entirely online at youtube which the above is just the first part of you can find the remaining 10 parts by clicking here posted by johnagj at 12 01 pm 0 comments labels history movies tv video monday september 26 2011 the end of the world part 2 part 3 part 4 i happened to stumble across these videos which are apparently the final part of terry jone s barbarians series i must say that i am very pleased to see jones again having thoroughly loved his work on monty python and was surprised to see that he has become something of a popular historian on british tv as he has done more than just this series here i now have a few more videos saved to watch later with jones as for this particular series while the videos in this post are from the final part they can stand alone from what i can tell and are still quite enjoyable jones does a good job in speaking to his audience and telling a version of the history of the huns and vandals that may be unfamiliar to many while i didn t find his revisionist history about attila to be all that convincing he did make some very good points about genseric and the vandals their sack of rome in 455 while not bloodless doesn t appear to have been as horrible as popular history claims they just did a better job of extracting the city s valuables than did others genseric also had an interesting claim causus belli in that the treaty he had signed with emperor valentinian iii which betrothed their children was nullified when he was overthrown and murdered eudocia daughter of the murdered valentinian iii and betrothed to genseric s son appealed to the vandals for rescue from the usurper this puts the 455 sack into different perspective once these facts are known in my view anyways this part was enjoyable and i recommend watching them i m going to slowly watch the other parts and complete the series as soon as i can enjoy posted by johnagj at 7 13 am 0 comments labels history tv video sunday september 25 2011 ipod random song list game this is a game of sorts that now defunct blogs i used to follow years ago started and i would join in from time to time i rather liked it mainly because i have very eclectic tastes in music and i still find it interesting to see what crazy lists are generated rules set your ipod on shuffle and post the first 10 songs that appear no cheating 1 amazing grace my chains are gone chris tomlin 2 romantic karen white 3 under pressure queen david bowie 4 heart s on fire john cafferty 5 after 12 force m d s 6 human the human league 7 dreams the cranberries 8 am i the only one marc anthony 9 live and let die guns n roses 10 fly like an eagle the steve miller band posted by johnagj at 7 06 am 0 comments labels music saturday september 24 2011 aeschylus the persians this was the first of the ancient greek plays reviewed by professor meineck in his lecture that i previosuly blogged about it has the unique distinction of being the earliest surviving play we have from anywhere in the world aeschylus wrote this play about a real historical event the battle of salamis which he was a veteran of and during which the persian army was soundly defeated the play seems to me to have 3 themes which played off of each other the folly of exceeding mortal limits which the persians did in attempting to throw slavery s yoke firm on the greeks the courage and resoluteness of the sons of greece to fight for all they have the tragedy of war as far as loss of human life which in this battle meant that persia s flower is gone cut down although i am far from being anything near a classicist i did find much to enjoy about this particular play it could be that it was based on a real historical event and i enjoy history a lot although how it was told in the play is nothing like what would be acceptable as real history by modern scholars parts of it were boring and dragged on this is a very different and long dead culture one must remember so some of the context is lost to me this particular translation certainly helped as some of the prose seemed to be charged with emotion that brought the events to life in my mind here s an example with a messenger sorrofully telling the news of the near total loss of the persian invasion fleet then the greek ships seizing their chance swept in circling and struck and overturned our hulls and saltwater vanished before our eyes shipwrecks filled it and drifting corpses shores and reefs filled up with our dead and every able ship under persia s command broke order scrambling to escape we might have been tuna or netted fish for they kept on spearing and gutting us with splintered oars and bits of wreckage while moaning and screams drowned out the sea noise till night s black face closed it all in lines 682 697 i m not usually one who enjoys poetry much but the raw emotion conveyed in these words was palpable it rather surprised me when i read this to have such a reaction i felt like i could actually see the wrecked hulks of the persian ships with the bodies of their dead floating in the sea at least as if i was watching a movie about the battle instead of just reading a play and it continued for look at what happened to the island garrison the persian had left near the site of the sea battle after some god had handed the greeks the glory in the seafight that same day they fenced their bodies in bronze armor and leapt from their ships and cordoned off the island so completely that our men milled helpless not knowing where to turn while stones battered at them and arrows twanging from the bowstrings hit home killing them it ended when the greeks gave one great howl and charged chopping meat till every living man was butchered lines 736 750 powerful stuff look i am by no means an expert at this but this is a play that even a novice such as myself was able to find meaning to yes some of it bored me to no end and i have no desire to see the play performed live the chorus still looks hokey even in this translation but there is still something there to enjoy and take from this play i know nothing about all the different translations of this play but i can tell you that this particular one was excellent and however authentic it may or may not be it certainly made this ancient play accessible to an amateur like me i cannot say the same about any other translation so if you are looking to read this give this one a try i highly recommend it posted by johnagj at 8 25 am 0 comments labels good books history literature older posts home subscribe to 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