0922 hours. Up at eight, made the bed, played with Jadah the Cat with the laser light for fifteen minutes, took glucose, blood pressure, banana, spoon of Kroger crunchy peanut butter and eight oz. of skim milk and read the Enquirer. A usual morning to be sure, but when Carol was finishing the paper she mentioned an article on a new (this fall) sitcom on NBC titled “Save Me” which takes place in Indian Hills (the Village of Indian Hill has no ‘s’). It is written by a fellow (John Scott Shepherd) who went to Miami, who says that Anderson Hall had a whole floor of students from Indian Hill (the writer is from Cleveland). He likes the beautiful area and stuck with I.H. as the backdrop. Two years ago NBC introduced a really good, well enacted, well written, show “Harry’s Law” that also takes place in Cincinnati. Before that (from what I remember) you had to go back to the seventies to find a show that takes place in this area, a fun comedy titled “WKRC in Cincinnati”. One of the lead characters was an actor who did his undergraduate work at Otterbein College (now university) and he always had a pennant hanging from the wall in his office on the show. (It was a nice recognition for little Otterbein.)
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“Save Me," Anne Heche's return to broadcast TV after starring on HBO's "Hung," has gotten a series order from NBC.
According to TVLine, Heche stars in the new comedy series as a woman who has an experience that leads her to believe she can channel god.
From: Huffington Post
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Cincinnati is a good backdrop. If you have watched the show and seen the views of Cincinnati – well, scenically it is the San Francisco of the East. The view of Cincinnati, night or day, coming down (northbound) I-75 from the cut in the hill in Northern Kentucky from the airport is one of the best views of any city in the United States from my perspective.
What does this have to do with anything, orndorff?
The humor of the show, the lady choking on a sandwich and then thinking she is God’s prophet is her outcome. Reminds me of “GCB” [Good Christian Bitch] that takes place in politically conservative Texas on Sunday night. Cincinnati is also, hummmm, politically conservative. No one ever mentions “GCB” in Cincinnati media but I’ll bet a lot of people watch it.
You are stepping in home-muddied waters here, boy. – Amorella
Dark humor overrules – natural humor of any kind overrules any irony or situation, Amorella.
Again, saved by the bell. – Amorella
What can I say, Amorella? If it weren’t for humor where would any miracles be?
Amen, to that boy. Post. - Amorella
I am startled that you used, “Amen”.
Post while your humor remains intact, young man. – Amorella
1545 hours. We are sitting in the shade at the bottom of the hill on the far north side of Pine Hill Lakes Park next to Kings Mill Road. Carol is still working on her Brad Thor novel and she mowed the southwest corner of the yard earlier and I mowed the rest of it as it is supposed to rain tonight and tomorrow I will be in Westerville. This morning I had a newly acquired delicious treat before cutting: a Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate with Raspberry Filling square. One of those has the lingering taste way beyond that of a regular sized Snicker’s Bar. I have one or two a week. I did not do my exercises because I worked over an hour mowing the thickened grass caused by the recent excess of rain.
I am plodding my way into the novel Carol bought me a couple of weeks ago (because she felt I needed a diverse interest from reading the ‘somberness’ of Wikipedia). The novel takes an acquired taste very much unlike dark chocolate as the title suggests: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith. I don’t even like vampires. Most of the blood-suckers I am aware of work in corporate or on Wall Street. And, my imagery comes from Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) as I read it as an extra in one of my college courses. I am amazed glancing through lists of books on vampires since the Romantic Age but I am not much interested. As far as I am concerned Swift’s “Modest Proposal” could easily be put in the list and would be with many others of similar themes about the true vampires of the world – blood suckers all.
However, orndorff, the cold hard truth is that by page seventy-two you are beginning to enjoy Grahame-Smith’s book. – Amorella
Enjoy is not the right word, Amorella. The juxtapositioning of the historical Lincoln and the fictional vampire hunter Lincoln strikes a personal interest for reasons I cannot comprehend – maybe it is because the book is so far out of touch with common reality, plus, I say begrudgingly, it is well written [I wish I could write with Grahame-Smith’s cadence and word delivery]. I am not a novelist. The Merlyn’s Mind series and this blog are a wish fulfillment, to be classified as a ‘writer’ of hearsay and fiction, I suppose. It would be nice to be remembered today by Owen and Brennan with the passing thought (once in a while) “Papa wrote books and a blog.” That is a pleasant thought, beyond that, in the long stretch, it is nothing much but faery dust.
You were going to write “dust in the wind” but wrote “faery dust” instead, why is that? – Amorella
I don’t know, Amorella. I wrote it without much thought but then I like the ring. I guess I am ever hopeful “faery dust” has some truth to it whereas dust is less than hopeful. The books and blog are magical to me, so I imprint the dust with faeries, as I am as an imaginary druid of old, Merlyn the Bard of Scotland, and like vampires perhaps we once shared the same DNA in the blood, that is. If Great Aunt Floy’s genealogy has a wee bit of truth to it I have a drop or two of Claudius (Caesar) I and Agrippina, the Younger’s DNA and their daughter, Genuissa [Venissa] married Arviragus Gwenivyth, ArchDruid, King of Britons. Their son was King Marius of Siluria who married Penardun and their son was the famous, King Coel I. Not everyone agrees with the old genealogy, but I did discover this:
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To the best of my knowledge, everything that can be known about Genuissa (aka Venissa or Venus Julia) is to be found in Geoffrey of Monmouth, the 12th century British chronicler who wrote the Historia regum Brittaniae.
Below, I reproduce the transcription of a passage which, in 1929, Acton Griscom made from the Latin of a 12th century manuscript of the Historia. The orthography of the Latin is consistent with what Griscom found in the manuscript. I also give Lewis Thorpe's modern English translation of this passage and, furthermore, I give Robert Ellis Jones's translation of the Welsh abridgement of the Latin text, taken from a manuscript copied in the 15th century.
Neither Tacitus, Suetonius, nor Dio Cassius, the Roman historians, have anything at all to say about Genuissa. But Griscom, in his lengthy introduction to the Historia, is much concerned to defend Geoffey's credibility. And, if Geoffrey, who relied upon sources to which we may not now have access, can be believed, then grounds may exist for saying that Genuissa was the daughter of Claudius and the spouse of Arviragus. Thorpe agrees with Griscom that, on the whole, Geoffrey is likely to be something better than a fabulist.
The historicity of Arviragus himself has some support from this passage from Juvenal, the 2nd century (AD) Roman satirist (Satire 4.124-128):
. . . "ingens omen habes," inquit, "magni clarique triumphi; regem aliquem capies, aut de temone Britanno excidet Arviragus. Peregrina est belua, cernis erectas in tergas sudes?" (Veiento addresses the Emperor: . . . "A mighty presage hast thou," he says, "of a great and glorious victory. Some king will be thy captive; or Arviragus will be hurled from his British chariot. The brute is foreign-born: dost thou not see the prickles bristling upon his back?")
This poetic fragment, the text and translation of which are taken from Juvenal and Persius, trans. G. G. Ramsay (Cambridge, MA: 1929), is also cited by Geoffrey after his giving credit to Genuissa for establishing peace between Arviragus and Vespasian. Juvenal, as is well known to Classical scholars, was somewhat adverse to things not historically Roman.
J. C. Marler, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
and Assistant Vatican Film Librarian,
Saint Louis University
From: gatekeepkey.org/Genissa.htm
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For most of the last hour in scanning through Wikipedia and other sources I find no definite proof of Genuissa and Arviragus but it is in the royal genealogies that I agree are legendary when one only can acquire a source or two. Fiction is a part of what human beings are. People who doubt this fictional aspect of humanity need to think more soundly. For me though, it is fun to consider and it heightens my imagination to wonder indeed if I have some old Druid’s blood in me. It would add to my own sense of personal authenticity that I have ‘an ancient storyteller’ dwelling somewhere within, and if so, why not embellish the stories with a little faery dust. (2157 hours)
Time for bed, boy. Post. - Amorella
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