True, no one *can* be witty all the time. I'll admit that we're prone to devolving into ridiculousness. But then it's like, to use another genre of writing as a comparison, Aaron Sorkin's silly-humour, where you're calling people "Skippy" while yelling about poncy French hairdressers and crazy-gluing their phones. And then turkeys fall from the sky. It's quick and very silly, but still not idiotic.
Greek pottery makes me squee, too. Particularly Archaic Greek redware and the like; I was researching it for a constellation tattoo design for my arm (Orion, in case you were wondering), but now that a)I still have more room on the arm and b)I do pottery, among other things, for a living, I never really stopped reading about it. We actually went stalking some the last time I was in Maryland; there are a ton of museums in DC, obviously, but also a really great one in Baltimore. There I spent a stupid amount of time in the Ancient Civ wing, talking to Marcus Aurelius's bust (heh), mentally deconstructing Halic and Italic bronzework, and staring at pottery. It were awesome.
Riddle me this, Batman: Why do think, when there is a decent amount of research done on all the different groups constituting "Celts", books (and therefore classes) usually lump them all together into one group and spend a paragraph talking about how violent they were and how they got their asses handed to them by the Romans? It's kind of like that with all the "barbarians", really. I feel like I got shafted in my history classes, because I didn't learn about these cultures until I was out of school and doing my own research. < off soapbox now > ::grin::
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Greek pottery makes me squee, too. Particularly Archaic Greek redware and the like; I was researching it for a constellation tattoo design for my arm (Orion, in case you were wondering), but now that a)I still have more room on the arm and b)I do pottery, among other things, for a living, I never really stopped reading about it. We actually went stalking some the last time I was in Maryland; there are a ton of museums in DC, obviously, but also a really great one in Baltimore. There I spent a stupid amount of time in the Ancient Civ wing, talking to Marcus Aurelius's bust (heh), mentally deconstructing Halic and Italic bronzework, and staring at pottery. It were awesome.
Riddle me this, Batman: Why do think, when there is a decent amount of research done on all the different groups constituting "Celts", books (and therefore classes) usually lump them all together into one group and spend a paragraph talking about how violent they were and how they got their asses handed to them by the Romans? It's kind of like that with all the "barbarians", really. I feel like I got shafted in my history classes, because I didn't learn about these cultures until I was out of school and doing my own research. < off soapbox now > ::grin::