William Shakespeare’s soothsayer might have urged Julius Caesar to “Beware the Ides of March” (and Caesar should have) but The Idiot has always enjoyed the 74th day in the Roman calendar. That’s because it’s between National Pi Day on 3/14, which is an important holiday for pi and pie lovers, and Saint Patrick’s Day on 3/17.
It’s now been just over a year since The Idiot enjoyed an adventure outside the United States. The pandemic confinement has resulted in the longest period he’s continuously been on U.S. soil since he was a sophomore in high school 55 years ago.
What will you see when The Idiot curates photos of himself, masked and socially distanced, during the past year?
There were ample reasons for The Idiot to be well-armed during his 20-year-walk around the Mediterranean Sea.
It’s been almost a year since The Idiot hosted a dinner inside a restaurant (“A place where people pay to not social distance and eat someone else’s food”) and to recall the variety of food available on earth during the isolating pandemic he tends to think of the cuisine in the countries he visited during his 20-year-walk around the Mediterranean Sea.
The Idiot has had a special feeling about Valentine’s Day since 2013 when the romantic event was commemorated with the publication of The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Magic and Madness on the Mediterranean, the simultaneous release of the book’s award-winning promotional trailer and the kickoff of an uproarious collection of reactions from critical and less critical readers. Although he has since completed his 20-year-walk around the Mediterranean Sea and published the third volume in The Idiot and the … →
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