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Why are you so good!!!!!!!!!! Can you just rewrite all the history books so they’re interesting 😍🤩

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As a long-time Roman history nerd, I *highly* recommend the book "Agrippina" by Emma Southon. Feminist/snarky/funny/illuminating, about the woman who was Caligula's sister and Nero's mother. It's truly unlike any other ancient history book I've ever read, a good way. The original UK edition has a very cool cover that gives you an idea of its style, while the American edition looks like a boring history textbook:

https://www.emmasouthon.com/agrippina-empress-exile-hustler-whore

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now that!! is how you subtitle a history book!!

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Everything about this is <chef’s kiss> Also there’s a great doc about the Roman Empire with British historian Mary Beard who, incidentally, is not a fan of bras and I salute that.

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Love your work. Dirtbag for you to look up though: Minnie Dean. No spoilers about all of her bullshit but she's the only woman who was ever hanged in New Zealand

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this whole thing is Yikes with a capital Y!! I can't decide if the true dirtbag is Minnie or Society or God or the hat companies or what

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Because I was curious, I looked up generally how much a donkey costs (anyway from $200 to $3,000 which seems like both too much money and not enough). Which if he was buying really terrible donkeys means he spent like 200 billion dollars in 2023 money. This math doesn't seem right but also it's funny so

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honestly I would happily spend $3K on a donkey, they seem cute and fairly chill

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If not an actual horse I think we can count at least one horses ass on the ballot

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lol I drafted this newsletter during the House Speaker debacle and was like "if one of the house republicans nominates a goddamn horse I will lose it"

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