Christian Panas @taki.earth · 08/10/2026I have a lifelong loathing of the Church and Saul was a bastard, but the historical significance of it is incredible. It is said that he addressed the assembly, so I just assumed it would be at the Pnyx. I admit I’m not certain. 110
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 08/10/2026The steps, the stars overhead, the giant Parthenon directly across from you… I don’t know a more magical spot in Athens. 010
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 08/10/2026When I lived in a tiny flat in Thission back in 2004, I loved nothing better than climbing up to the Pnyx at night, sitting on the giant stone steps and looking across at the Acropolis. It was truly awesome to consider that Pericles and St. Paul had addressed the Athenian assembly/ekklesia there. 210
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 04/10/2026I have Italian friends whose elderly Calabrian village grandparents spoke an archaic form of Greek. While traveling in the Peloponnese twenty years ago, I came across some folks who spoke Tsakonian which apparently derives from archaic Dorian. I couldn’t understand it. 110
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 02/10/2026My knowledge of Eastern Mediterranean history is strictly as an educated layperson. I’d definitely love to be in the audience but I cannot guarantee ahead of time that work won’t end up interfering on a Saturday morning (my time). I’d hate to commit then not be able to show. 110
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 01/10/2026It's foundational to my father’s sense of Greek governmental corruption. My father also never neglects to mention that Doxiades’ book on urban planning was/is taught at universities. He’s a big admirer. I admit to retelling his story on occasion. I’m curious as to your family’s take on its accuracy. 120
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 01/10/2026Doxiades was your grandfather? My dad has told the tale my entire life (with maximal disgust) on how he offered post-war Athens a wonderful urban plan gratis to rebuild as a beautiful city that was ultimately rejected because there were no attendant bribes. 130
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 01/10/2026Like many things, maybe it doesn’t hit as hard as it did because so-called Real Life has caught-up and perhaps outpaced the movie’s conceipt. The RL actors we have feel as alien/monstrous as the film’s. More so in the case of Stephen Miller. Still an awesome popcorn watch which is totally worth it. 120
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 01/10/2026I can’t and won’t argue with the appreciation for B movies as well as Carpenter using them to get across the message. Love that fight. 120
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 01/10/2026True enough. I didn’t mean to put down B movies. But They Live is very much political movie. 110
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 01/10/2026This has been true FOREVER. It's been forgotten that the Times’ Judith Miller with intense Sulzberger support was one of the main forces lying us into invading Iraq and the debacle that cost us hundreds of thousands of deaths, trillions of dollars, and an even more destabilized Middle East. Fuck NYT 0170
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 01/10/2026They Live was 100% meant as commentary on the Reagan Years, not to be “just a B-movie.” John Carpenter made and makes no bones about his politics. No need to denigrate the movie to make a point. 110
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 30/09/2026Oh yeah, it makes complete sense. If it’s not an art book or something depending on physical format, I’ve been carrying most of my books in an e-reader for almost 15 years now. I cannot manage a library with the amount of moving I’ve done, although letting go of my books was the most difficult. 110
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 30/09/2026From what I have read about them, they reject AI-created and AI-translated comics and also make it plain that they have not taken venture capitalist cash or angel investments. I wish them much luck and will definitely give them a try for digital. 110
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 30/09/2026I wish that was an unlocked article because I’d love to read it. 001
Reposted by Christian PanasZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026People think Catholic and Jewish guilt are the same but it's actually getting the arrow of causality wrong. Jewish Guilt: I need my kid to do a task, so I deploy guilt. Catholic Guilt: I need my kid to feel guilt, so I deploy a task. 1022021
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 22/09/2026This one?youtu.beBABYMETAL x @ElectricCallboy - RATATATA (OFFICIAL VIDEO)YouTube video by BABYMETAL 010
Reposted by Christian PanasAliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I’ve started writing about the theatres of Athens. Here is the first of what I intend as a series covering every venue I visit. alikichapple.net/posts/theatr... #Athens #Theatre #TheatresOfAthensalikichapple.netTheatre of Kolonos - meanderingsPrologue: Welcome to the first of what I intend as a series of posts about contemporary Athenian theatres. There are…hundreds of them, and I probably won’t cover them all. What... 42310
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 16/09/2026Oh yes, I make cold brew with that and the richness and complexity of flavor is divine. Makes me realize just how much coffee is indeed a berry. 020
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 11/09/2026Ah, I really loved those books, even if I think Cicero was much more of a reactionary bastard than Harris portrayed him. 120
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 11/09/2026Yeah, connected to that (and what I firmly admit to be a personal bugaboo for me) is the continuation of British-imposed latinized spellings of Greek names to this day. There was no C in Greek but there is a K in English. Why not Sokrates? And why -us instead of -os? It rubs me the wrong way. 111
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 11/09/2026I just finished listening to it. Definitely a comfort read/listen. My only complaint was that it was too short. 110
Reposted by Christian PanasNicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Leopard-Head Decoration from a Ritual Robe from the Tomb of Tutankhamun. #Sculpture, New Kingdom, #Egypt (c. 1332–1323 B.C.) #art 128364
Reposted by Christian PanasThe Unitarian Universalist Association @uua.org · 08/09/2026We remember poet, essayist, farmer, and environmentalist Wendell Berry, whose work called us toward deeper relationship with one another, the land, and the communities we share. May his words continue to inspire lives rooted in care, trust, and responsibility. #WendellBerry #UU #BelovedCommunity 0177
Reposted by Christian PanasGre-Gory Weird @gdub1972.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Happy 89th birthday to the MAD genius, Sergio Aragonés! 115035
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 03/09/2026Lee is a hero of pulp illustration. Your coloring here is gorgeous. 010
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 03/09/2026It’s such a profound truth that eases the world when I’ve been able to touch it. I feel so far away from it at the moment, though I “know” it’s always there to be accessed. 010
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 03/09/2026This 100% looks like a feet-up, Sunday watch for me. I haven’t seen it in decades, but I recalled enjoying Con Air a lot. I have not seen any of the other films West directed. 010
Reposted by Christian PanasRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We don’t have a right to ask whether we’re going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what’s the right thing to do?” --Wendell Berry 2665195
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 01/09/2026I just this moment discovered that Wendell Berry has passed. I feel such grief though he lived long and well. I don’t have it in me to find an essay or a poem right now, I just know the world has been made so much better by his existence and effort, and I’m trying to focus on that gratitude. 000
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 27/08/2026Just finished a rewatch a few days ago. Frank and Ziggy were just tremendous characters performed so beautifully. 010
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 24/08/2026Fuck Pete Buttigieg, that neoliberal, consultant who shredded health care in Michigan, scourge of the homeless as mayor and sellout who torpedoed Sanders in return for his meaningless Sec Treasury position. He’s an empty sociopath who believes in nothing and would make a worthless nominee. 110
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 20/08/2026Being required to get the Holy Synod to sign off on my paperwork so I could get my Greek citizenship really pissed me off. I worked extra hard to keep my mouth shut during the process. 110
Reposted by Christian PanasDean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 17/08/2026“House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced his opposition to Medicare for All on the same day a CBS News poll found 90 percent of Democratic voters support the idea—and 72 hours after a Yale University study showed the program would save 114,000 American lives and $1 trillion every year.”levernews.comHakeem Jeffries’ Betrayal Shows Why Democratic Voters Are So EnragedHouse Dems’ leader declared his opposition to Medicare For All on the same day a new poll shows almost all Democratic voters support it. 75787236
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 11/08/2026I personally wouldn’t chide him too much, given how many he got that I didn’t lol. His team dominated impressively. 010
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 11/08/2026Fun but also humbling considering that there was only a relative handful I could answer. I did manage Thetis and Eris though. 110
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 11/08/2026I used Smitten Kitchen years ago when I ran the monastery kitchen and I still use it today. Worth a read. 000
Reposted by Christian PanasZach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 11/08/2026Over at @comicsjournal.bsky.social, a review of Tony Millionaire's bizarre and (probably) brilliant The Oddball's Odyssey.tcj.comThe Oddball's Odyssey #1 - The Comics JournalThe Oddball's Odyssey #1 (Bad Idea, 2026) by Tony Millionaire reviewed by Zach Rabiroff, who absolutely loved it. 3135
Christian Panas @taki.earth · 11/08/2026I’m sold on any Millionaire book, but this is an excellent review that somehow increases my interest. Thanks! 110
