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Jim Lohmar

@jimlohmar.bsky.social
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senior greek & latin lecturer at college of charleston and sometime writer & editor. he/his/him. email: jimlohmar@gmail.com

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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
CHARLESTON BLUESKY: i’m giving a talk tonight about art horror philosophersandfools.com/event/2026-1...
philosophersandfools.com
Extra Credit: Gore Caesars
Philosophers & Fools is a bookstore, bar, and gathering place in Charleston, SC.
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
AESCHYLUS: my play is 1500 lines long with operatic, sprawling choruses SOPHOCLES: my play is also 1500 lines long with beautiful, sprawling choruses that are central pieces of dialogue EURIPIDES: here. this fucker is 1160 lines long and includes a reverse peripeteia
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social i’m grading some classical mythology quizzes while you do this show jadan baugh is a fucking odysseus
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
lay is transitive lie is intransitive
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
huh if only four ball-knowers had written a sci-fi western about the history of the ncaa oh wow would you look at that www.goodreads.com/book/show/54...
goodreads.com
The Sinful Seven: Sci-fi Western Legends of the NCAA
A collaborative book, written and edited in just 11 wee…
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
somehow fernando mendoza fell to me in the dynasty draft at the 01.10 in a 10 team league. traded back out of the 01.05
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
EDITOR: you get that headline written? SEO GUY: yeah as much patriarchy as i possibly fit boss EDITOR: good job 👍🏻
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
whoever wrote this kicker knows ball
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🦋 channel-6.ghost.io/dollyworld/
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DOLLYWORLD
"Someone tricked you into listening to an entire Eudora Welty short story while only taking three minutes to do it."
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
hey charleston it’s 11:03 pm but the good news is that the real feel temp is 104° which no one who lives in hurricane alley should fret about
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
when i was writing at red cup/sb nation i did a booze article about van gogh double espresso vodka and the us rep for van gogh vodka sent me three whole bottles of their “expressions” (they don’t call them flavors). polished all them off on my porch while organizing charleston’s dsa chapter in 2017
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
ODYSSEUS, TO HIS SON: telemachus, ¡el assico! must continue eternally. this is the will of zeus
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Eumaius, Odyssey Book 14:
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
i saw nolan’s odyssey tonight, and it’s excellent. in addition to wilson’s translation, i wonder if he also worked through some secondary literature such as shay’s work on PTSD in homeric epic, because there’s a lot of that in the film
odysseus in america by jonathon shay
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
man fuck this guy
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
the odyssey will never qualify as a true Dad Movie because odysseus famously never consults a map
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
i guess tuchel finally got his hands on willy wonka’s recipes
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
@celebrityhottub.bsky.social hey ryan will you let the rest of the fullcast crew know that i can hear it
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
in the original greek, the illiterate itinerant singers of the epic are explicit that odysseus looks exactly like george clooney. in fact, the name “george clooney” appears alongside “dionysus” in linear b tablets. i am seething in white hot rage over this misreading of the source material
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
da pope isn’t just excommunicating holocaust deniers and sex pests, he’s invalidating their *confessions* www.npr.org/2026/07/02/n...
the Chicago Pope has declared the Nazi and pedo guys to be schismatic so gtfo
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
when i was still playing, i don’t remember learning how to trap a ball coming in OVER YOUR LEFT SHOULDER
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
rich eisen and linda cohn swapping stories on the this was sportscenter pod of being reprimanded for jokes on air. cohn says she earned a talking to for calling mike piazza a “master batter” in a home run highlight clip
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
nice piece of us-croatia cultural exchange: the two croats enjoying a couple of mich ultra 2x4s during their national anthem
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
dante alighieri, 1300 CE:
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Radius, by Helen Frankenthaler, 1993, 📈 by Paul Carr
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
commence full damnatio memoriae, remove him from public space and remind us that he tried to ruin our country. erase him and condemn him, but remember the violence he was
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
my phone is spammed 10+ times daily with campaign messages for this race and none of them are mace. i was rent priced out of clyburn’s and moved to *her congressional district* in 2023. she’s cooked cooked
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
paused my LATN 101 class this afternoon to listen to emmylou harris do soundcheck outside the classroom because the @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social informs much of my pedagogy
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
the nba finals will decide and crown this season’s nba champion
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
@sickoscommittee.org 29 total runs in auburn-nc state so far, bot 7
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
nc state baseball today
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
ratio here is approaching some real jeff francoeur contributor numbers; will be interesting to see where goodpapajama can land on The Frenchie Metric
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
One of my strongest takeaways from the Bee this week is that it was a showcase for why critical thinking matters more than ever. So much of what the kids do up there isn’t rote memorization—it’s using their insane prep to solve words like puzzles (using etymology, patterns) in real time.
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
@dicknixon.bsky.social @netw3rk.bsky.social have either of you read le carré’s “agent running in the field?”
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
my mom made me take latin when i started high school in 1998 and now i’m a professor of classical languages
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
the romans, who famously developed the arch, the pantheon dome, and the basilica, liked the flat roof
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
john travolta, unprompted: i shower in my dishwasher, every day
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
lol it took until the 2010s for some harvard non-classics white guy to come with “the thucydides trap?” classicists have been teaching this stuff since plato’s academy. euripides saw this shit in real time. read some kagan if you don’t have the greek (pub. 2004) www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-pelopo...
thriftbooks.com
The Peloponnesian War book by Donald Kagan
Buy a cheap copy of The Peloponnesian War book by Donald Kagan. A chronicle of the rise and fall of a great empire, and an examination of the dark times that still resonate today For three decades in ...
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
it’s too often forgotten that SPACEBALLS began and ended with “episode 11”
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
@jasonkirk.fyi we still have plenty of worthy bbq spots but goddamn www.al.com/news/2026/05...
al.com
James Beard Award-winning BBQ chef’s last remaining restaurants close: ‘Sad to see it go’
Locations in Atlanta, Nashville and Charleston have closed, according to reports.
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
lost it when he starts drinking adult blood
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
the dough/oven guy just pulled out the big pizza peel for the by-the-slice pies!!!
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
put the guy in prison, dawg, that’s it. that’s the thing we need
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
SHE
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
this last point – a sign of disrespect and indeed contempt – is the true spirit of the damnatio: a visual reminder of what used to be and what no longer is. erasure as good fucking riddance. we all know what *was* there (memoria), and we rejected it vituperatively (damnatio)
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
my dad would call this “reaching around your ass to scratch your elbow”
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
there’s a lot to love in this story, but for me it’s always been the poor barfly who screams “I HATE THIS SONG!” at his own lap
The next time “The Boys Are Back In Town” emerged, nothing happened and I was finally – finally! – able to celebrate in peace. Four minutes and 27 seconds later, when Gorham’s guitar kicked in again, this bar I will never celebrate transformed into the island from Lord of the Flies. Two men began pushing each other while the man nearest me grew new throat muscles specifically to scream “I HATE THIS SONG!” at his own lap.
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
my dad would call this “reaching around your ass to scratch your elbow”
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Jim Lohmar @jimlohmar.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
reentering earth communication after 40 minutes from the back side of the moon now fluent in nine languages, including proto indo european (PIE)
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