Homer and The Song of Roland

Bust of Homer

The following is a brief look at some of the anachronisms and errors in the Epic The Song of Roland. I have in previous postings mentioned that Homer’s Iliad is not a valid guide to the social, much less historical aspects of Mycenaean society. It is extremely unlikely that given that we know that the epic is a very poor guide to Mycenaean social realities that it is a better guide to Mycenaean history.1 We know about the social reality of Mycenaean society through the decipherment of Linear B. The tablets contain no historical data or literature but they provide a clear glimpse of Mycenaean society and that society is not the society of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. In fact the society is very different from the society described in Homer’s epics, to such an extent has to be qualitatively different.2

Rob Ford

A Musical "Tribute"

Rob Ford
Mayor of Toronto (UGH!!)

Here in Toronto we have been "Blessed" with having Rob Ford as Mayor of our fair city. The "acclaim" and "welcome attention" we have gotten because this "esteemed" person is our Mayor have inspired me to rewrite a lyric to a well known song.  

The song is Climb Every Mountain from the Musical The Sound of Music.

Smoke Every Crack pipe,

 Snort many lines,

 Follow your Drug Dealer,

 Everywhere  he goes
 

 Smoke Every Crack pipe,

 Mainline all that shit,

 Hallucinate your rainbow,

 'Till you find that stash
 

 A stash that will give

 All the highs you can take,

 Every day of your life

 For as long as you live 

 Smoke Every Crack pipe,

 Mainline all that shit,

 Hallucinate your rainbow,

 Till you find that stash 

A stash that will give

 All the highs you can take,

 Every day of your life

 For as long as you live
 

 Smoke Every Crack pipe,

 Mainline all that shit,

 Hallucinate your rainbow,

 Tell you find that stash!!

 Pierre Cloutier