Nero Claudius Drusus, etc.
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Manhattan-based magistrate, concerned with (& quite worried about) the res publica.
After a patient wait of three years, I will now finally get to read what I had the merest glimmer of a faint sense about at the Warsaw Conference, as I was yet again unable to journey east of the Elbe (and I was not very attentive at 3:00 a.m. NY time). Nice production.
January 3, 2026 at 12:06 AM
After a patient wait of three years, I will now finally get to read what I had the merest glimmer of a faint sense about at the Warsaw Conference, as I was yet again unable to journey east of the Elbe (and I was not very attentive at 3:00 a.m. NY time). Nice production.
Let us face the daunting challenges of the New Year with cheerful fortitude like Sempronius Pitio's Janus, even though 2025 felt like 365 bad hair days for Pompeius!
December 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Let us face the daunting challenges of the New Year with cheerful fortitude like Sempronius Pitio's Janus, even though 2025 felt like 365 bad hair days for Pompeius!
Feel free to use these real-time NYC winter wonderland photos if you need a plausible alibi.
December 31, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Feel free to use these real-time NYC winter wonderland photos if you need a plausible alibi.
I am not one to question other's choices, but NYC is simply full of it's usual holiday delights this morning:
December 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I am not one to question other's choices, but NYC is simply full of it's usual holiday delights this morning:
Any commander worth the rank knows that methodical foraging in the frontier zone is critical to carrying out the mission. Here, I demonstrate how to survive when reliant on the natives to convert duck into food when in the liminal space between West Chippewa St in Buffalo, New York and ... Canada.
December 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Any commander worth the rank knows that methodical foraging in the frontier zone is critical to carrying out the mission. Here, I demonstrate how to survive when reliant on the natives to convert duck into food when in the liminal space between West Chippewa St in Buffalo, New York and ... Canada.
By command of Aunt Livilla*, we pivot on III days' notice to feast among Livii (quite numerous these days), despite an overfull Claudian pantry, now to be consumed on Saturday. I am compelled to roast many sprouts & furnish Gallic wine.
(*Mom's minor sister, anno XCIII, still not to be denied.)
(*Mom's minor sister, anno XCIII, still not to be denied.)
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
By command of Aunt Livilla*, we pivot on III days' notice to feast among Livii (quite numerous these days), despite an overfull Claudian pantry, now to be consumed on Saturday. I am compelled to roast many sprouts & furnish Gallic wine.
(*Mom's minor sister, anno XCIII, still not to be denied.)
(*Mom's minor sister, anno XCIII, still not to be denied.)
Me, reading about collectors having to remove cellophane tape residue from coins with acetone,
... and then Livia gets the last word despite 17 years on the other side of the River...
... and then Livia gets the last word despite 17 years on the other side of the River...
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Me, reading about collectors having to remove cellophane tape residue from coins with acetone,
... and then Livia gets the last word despite 17 years on the other side of the River...
... and then Livia gets the last word despite 17 years on the other side of the River...
Notes: *No human will likely touch these "clad" again, which were obsolete & minted in ridiculous quantities. ** "AR" 90% in 1964, but 40% 1965-70. The Quadrigati of the American empire. (On right, all JFKs I found "in the wild" c. 1990-today.)
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Notes: *No human will likely touch these "clad" again, which were obsolete & minted in ridiculous quantities. ** "AR" 90% in 1964, but 40% 1965-70. The Quadrigati of the American empire. (On right, all JFKs I found "in the wild" c. 1990-today.)
Project deferred XLV years: ~ 100 JFK semisses soon back in public hands*. Nonna Drusilla's monthly tribute (aka Social Security) ended in "0.50" & she always gave me (not Ti.) the coin, c.1970-80. Keeping 1x each random AR** year + a few others, as Claudian genes are more practical than the Drusii.
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Project deferred XLV years: ~ 100 JFK semisses soon back in public hands*. Nonna Drusilla's monthly tribute (aka Social Security) ended in "0.50" & she always gave me (not Ti.) the coin, c.1970-80. Keeping 1x each random AR** year + a few others, as Claudian genes are more practical than the Drusii.
Whilst I watch the NYC Marathon progress of the MMLXX/LXXX age cohort, I humbly call the attention of New Yorkers to the Polls, on this last day of Early Voting in NYC. You might receive the spoils of the franchise, including temporary tattoos & leftover Halloween candy.
November 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Whilst I watch the NYC Marathon progress of the MMLXX/LXXX age cohort, I humbly call the attention of New Yorkers to the Polls, on this last day of Early Voting in NYC. You might receive the spoils of the franchise, including temporary tattoos & leftover Halloween candy.
In my annual preparation to start monitoring the progress of my friends running the NYC Marathon, I have ordered up extra coffee from the kitchens. A bit milky, as we may all be doing this for a while, they don't run that fast these days...
November 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
In my annual preparation to start monitoring the progress of my friends running the NYC Marathon, I have ordered up extra coffee from the kitchens. A bit milky, as we may all be doing this for a while, they don't run that fast these days...
Whilst excavating the Julio-Claudian kitchen counter, I discover c. 1 year of accumulated metal & provincials passing current in NYC, including Hispania, Britannia, & wildly not-worth-the -provincial-effort Hibernia. I may send a lad to buy 16% more with the "Euro" bits.
October 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Whilst excavating the Julio-Claudian kitchen counter, I discover c. 1 year of accumulated metal & provincials passing current in NYC, including Hispania, Britannia, & wildly not-worth-the -provincial-effort Hibernia. I may send a lad to buy 16% more with the "Euro" bits.
I know who Antonia suspects is the mastermind.
October 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I know who Antonia suspects is the mastermind.
Antonia said we were going to see "Divo", and I said, "Which one?" Imagine my surprise.
October 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Antonia said we were going to see "Divo", and I said, "Which one?" Imagine my surprise.
In celebration of finding, after two months, the already-opened packet of exotic Eastern spices (ex-Kalustyan's on Third Ave in "Curry Hill") which I had secreted in Livia's ancient Maxwell House Instant jar (background, which formerly held her Claudian pie-beans), Antonia & I had the Betz wine.
September 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In celebration of finding, after two months, the already-opened packet of exotic Eastern spices (ex-Kalustyan's on Third Ave in "Curry Hill") which I had secreted in Livia's ancient Maxwell House Instant jar (background, which formerly held her Claudian pie-beans), Antonia & I had the Betz wine.
Unclear from signals as to whether Claudius is bringing in some legions from farthest Hispania tonight, so the chow wagon has been fired up, as the tabernae of Manhattan may not be able to absorb the crowd.
September 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Unclear from signals as to whether Claudius is bringing in some legions from farthest Hispania tonight, so the chow wagon has been fired up, as the tabernae of Manhattan may not be able to absorb the crowd.
Livia's distant elder Drusillian cousin, c. 1914-18. I'm stumped by insignia, as the Frenchy Preserved-Fish King of Savoy & Sardegna made Lieutenants, Majors, and Brigadier Generals show 1 star. Lieutenant by visage, very possibly Major by attrition rate & status. Better eyes say ...?
September 16, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Livia's distant elder Drusillian cousin, c. 1914-18. I'm stumped by insignia, as the Frenchy Preserved-Fish King of Savoy & Sardegna made Lieutenants, Majors, and Brigadier Generals show 1 star. Lieutenant by visage, very possibly Major by attrition rate & status. Better eyes say ...?
And a bonus before I disembark, of (the parts where I am still unsure which half is) Brooklyn (and which is) Queens.
September 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
And a bonus before I disembark, of (the parts where I am still unsure which half is) Brooklyn (and which is) Queens.
A run outside the West tower of the Williamsburg Bridge, to avoid this barge. Of dirt.
September 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
A run outside the West tower of the Williamsburg Bridge, to avoid this barge. Of dirt.
A dull light view of Kings County, New York, from west of the midline of the East River, and therefore in New York County, New York.
September 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
A dull light view of Kings County, New York, from west of the midline of the East River, and therefore in New York County, New York.
On the journey to the Capitol, atop the Alban hill, to secure the favor of the many gods. But first, the necessary consultation with their priests and flunkies in the barren forum of mystery and despair.
September 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
On the journey to the Capitol, atop the Alban hill, to secure the favor of the many gods. But first, the necessary consultation with their priests and flunkies in the barren forum of mystery and despair.
As the Claudii attended a screening of "Jaws", I could not help but be struck that Chief Brody and Hooper get loaded on a bottle of early 1970s Beaujolais. What stories could our Antonian Paul Masson carafes tell???
August 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
As the Claudii attended a screening of "Jaws", I could not help but be struck that Chief Brody and Hooper get loaded on a bottle of early 1970s Beaujolais. What stories could our Antonian Paul Masson carafes tell???
Recalling the bare and harsh family memories of exile... the wine is Marcassin, and the decanter is ....Paul Masson. (I think. I don't know how "Since 1852" would fit in the California wine narrative...)
August 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Recalling the bare and harsh family memories of exile... the wine is Marcassin, and the decanter is ....Paul Masson. (I think. I don't know how "Since 1852" would fit in the California wine narrative...)