Another bit o’ Monkees-related trivia I stumbled across while reading Andrew Sandoval’s “Day By Day” history: the casting ad for the show called for “Ben Frank’s types”. I wondered what the heck that meant, so I went down a little Sunset Strip history rabbit hole.
Ben Frank’s was a coffee shop on Sunset where rock ‘n’ roll types hung out, including people like Stephen Stills, Bruce Palmer and Neil Young. The coffee shop was right in the middle of the curfew protests/riots in 1966 that inspired the Buffalo Springfield song For What It’s Worth.
There is whole book of the Trojan War Epic Cycle concerning the king of Ethiopia coming to the aid of Trojans. So the foundational epic that influenced every subsequent bit of western literature had a whole book dedicated to a black African king (and a sub plot about an Amazon queen).
The book is lost (the cycle has 8 books, only the Illiad and Odessey survive) but from secondary references we know Memnon the Ethiopian king was on a par with Achilles (and had his own suit of Hephaestus-made armor) but ultimately killed by him. Not only that it was in this book while chasing the Trojan troops back into Troy (as Memnon has killed another of his ahem close friends*) that the infamous “Achilles heel” incident occurred.
Being a boyfriend of Greek hero is possibly second only to being a girlfreind among the sucky jobs in ancient Greek literature.
There is a clam with markings that look very much like some kind of writing
Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) Tweeted:
The Lioconcha Hieroglyphica, a species of saltwater clam with markings often with the appearance of hieroglyphs.
Cairo is having a Mummy Parade. They are moving a herd of mummies from the Egypt Museum (the old train station) to a new place outside of town. They are moving them all at once in golden coffins and in chronological order.
When I look at that, I don’t see “writing”. I see “Iterated one-dimensional cellular automaton”, and possibly “Sierpinski triangles” (though I’ve seen other specimens where the Sierpinski is much clearer).
“Dancing with the dead” best describes the burial tradition in Madagascar of Famadihana. The Malagasy people open the tombs of their dead every few years and rewrap them in fresh burial clothes. Each time the dead get fresh wrappings, they also get a fresh dance near the tomb while music plays all around. This ritual—translated as the “turning of the bones”—is meant to speed up decomposition and push the spirit of the dead toward the afterlife.
I don’t think that’s correct… if you are abbreviating his middle name it would indeed have a period following it, wouldn’t it? So either “S.” if you’re abbreviating or, “S” if you’re spelling it out.
Chyron is a company that long made character generators for broadcast use, so the term Chyron got “scotch taped” in the broadcast industry and became generic for overlaid text, especially in sports or news broadcasting. This usage goes back easily to the '80s.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just remove it? Why would they still keep cocaine in the house? Is there a cite for this? I looked and couldn’t find a cite that the cocaine is extant.
Yikes! How did this pop up again, from almost a year ago! We resolved it way back then – Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker pointed out that Harry S. wrote it with a dot.
