Greg Daly

I’ve always been bad at keeping track of my reading, so I reckon by doing it online - here and elsewhere - I might force myself to stay on top of things. And to read more, and better. Here’s January so, all read and annotated for myself.

Really? Where? I’d not heard that. What was he saying? Taking issue with how Benedict had said that groups devoted to the older form should at least occasionally celebrate in the normal form?

My supervisor back in the day did a book on what the Greeks thought about the Romans claiming to be descended from Trojans. It’s an interesting read if you ever have the time.

Also “Troy was a Greek city”? Famously not.

Ah, Gerald of Wales, Lord of accuracy.

Good grief.

I like that this could an onion article.

This is amazing.

The Cartoon Museum in London is really something special. Where else do you get to gawp at original “V for Vendetta” pages by Dave Lloyd, “Judge Dredd” ones by John Burns, “Strontium Dog” by Carlos Ezquerra, and TV21 “Thunderbirds” ones by Frank Bellamy? And so much more…

I’m reading a collection of letter and diary extracts from Sophie and Hans at the minute.

“At its very inception this movement depended on the deception and betrayal of one's fellow man; even at that time it was inwardly corrupt and could support itself only by constant lies.” - The White Rose, second letter. 2/2

“It is impossible to engage in intellectual discourse with National Socialist Philosophy, for if there were such an entity, one would have to try by means of analysis and discussion either to prove its validity or to combat it. In actuality, however, we face a totally different situation. /1

I’ve not got many words on this.

Well, funny you ask.

It’s stunning. The Hannibal one he did is good too, but this is very special indeed. I was telling people about it at work the other day.

It troubles me that there’s anybody in this world who’s read 2000ad and hasn’t picked up on the fact that portrayals of paramilitary forces in Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog aren’t meant as models for how we should do things.

It’s a bizarre claim. Some adaptations are as good as the book. Some are better. Many, probably most, are worse, but we do live in a fallen world, so what do people expect.

This is true, I remembered being banished from pubs in my youth for daring to crack open a paperback at the bar. But no more! I owe him so much!

Mignola’s art on that series is astonishing.

It seems he’s in Cork. Might be tricky luring him to the real real capital.

Yes, the journalist and the author in this AI-generated slop both appear to be me, more or less. I’ve no idea who the builder is. Sadly, the book doesn’t exist at all, even by another author. It’d be interesting to read about, though.

Odd thing. Back in November I was trying to find an article I’d once written, and discovered that Google was under the impression I’d written a book called ‘The Reformation of the Republic: The Catholic Church and the American Civil War’, which sounds great. Alas no. If only.

This is a good thought, PJ, thank you. I regularly think that the death of Google Reader - combined with smartphones and the lure of Twitter - was what killed blogging, and devastated our public forum with it. Good luck, so!

I don’t think she was very bright, Anne. I’m not sure how one gets to be a biologist while being so dim, but I suppose silliness is fairly well distributed across the professions.

It’s funny how people still talk about AI-generated images as though the person commissioning them is their creator. That person is better understood as a patron, a commissioner, or a client. It’s the tool itself that produces the images, a bit like an artist following a brief.

Key factors in his book, yep. Basically he’s put together an effective bingo card for spotting fascism, and sadly it’s not hard to see a full house currently in play.

Is he saying that predation is what the US does? And that this should be facilitated? This seems a very odd way to talk.

It’s kind of mad that Robin Hood has been filmed four times to superb effect, and plenty of other times less impressively, and yet studios keep wheeling out mediocre takes on the story. I wish King Arthur inspired such commitment. That’s never had an adaptation that’s really shone.

The world may be going to hell but there are at least flickers of joy to be had. Last night saw me heading from Drogheda to Dublin to enjoy the company of four friends I’ve had for almost forty years. Good to be reassured that we’re still ourselves, no matter how much else has changed!