Monthly Archives: September 2011

Monthly Archives: September 2011

Finding Homeros

Posted on by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, Where is the idiot | 14 Comments

It took me a few days to recover from the goddess Athena’s thunder-bolting bombshell that I couldn’t quote the titillating and tantalizing remarks made to me by Zeus, her father and the king of all gods, until the publication of “The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on

Zeus’ Thunderbolt

Posted on by Joel in Follow The Idiot, MedTrekking, Where is the idiot | 13 Comments

Sometimes Athena, the crafty and cunning goddess who helped both Odysseus and The Idiot out of many scrapes during their Mediterranean odysseys, cracks me up. She really does. The other day she firmly instructed The Idiot to scale Turkey’s renowned Mount Ida for a Q&A with Zeus, her father who is

Symmetrical Athena

Posted on by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, Where is the idiot | 8 Comments

The wily and wise gray-eyed goddess Athena, who appeared in Troy in the guise of a tour guide and the incarnation of the Trojan warrior Hector (http://goo.gl/wk5ol), doesn’t want The Idiot to start writing “The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean.” Although the spear-carrying goddess knew

Tripping in Troy

Posted on by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, Where is the idiot | 12 Comments

The Idiot said goodbye to one gigantic Trojan horse — the one used in the film “Troy” with Brad Pitt that was shot in Malta and Mexico — on the beachfront promenade in Canakkale, Turkey. Then he MedTrekked 32-kilometers along the mirror-smooth