“Hey, Mallory, have you been A LITTLE phoning it in this last week, occasionally just posting links to interviews you have done while in New Zealand?” Honestly yes! I should probably have taken a week off to go do that conference, but I didn’t, and this is the absolute best I can do for right now. I’m sorry! I’ll write more things again soon, once I have slept and died and come back as someone more *gestures vaguely in the direction of my body* correctly assembled via muscles and time.
Anyhow, here is a fun interview between self and Kim Hill for Radio New Zealand, who was, if I say so myself, a total babe. I say it respectfully! But: a real babe. I have to go back to sleep now.
I just want to say it took me three tries to read that name correctly; I kept reading it as “Kill Him” and was thinking maybe it was an offshoot of the band Kill Hannah or something.
I hope you are able to reassemble yourself quickly, Mallory!
Thank God it wasn’t just me.
Is there someone upsetting you that’s causing you to see messages like this in an almost subliminal manner?
I did the same thing, and just chalked it up to my usual Toast-related #misandry.
Me too! I thought Mallory was saying that her interview would kill Euripides, like the “kill him” part is “what’s coming to him.”
So did I!
(And, for the record, so do I.)
I also read “kill him” in the voice of the little bald kid from Dark City.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmW-fj2yVVo
I had to read all of the comments and then scroll back up, because I too thought this interview was about killing him — Euripedes deserves it, obvs.
I did not even realize my error in so reading until I read your comment. Whoops.
I will never not think “you rippa deez trousers, you’d better pay for them” when I read “Euripedes”. Thanks Terry Deary.
Even nerdier Classicist version of same joke: Euripides trousers, Eumenides trousers.
Hey- you rippa deez, you menda deez.
OH GOSH, did any Toasties ever play that old computer game “Zeus: Master of Olympus?” Basically it was this ancient Greek city building game where you could hover over civilians and they’d say thinly veiled Greek jokes. If you hovered over the fleece/pelt sellers, a man would say, “Watch it! If EURIPE-DES, YOU MENDA DEEZ.”
Also, Dionysius would show up in your city sometimes and drunkenly stumble through your streets, trying to convince you to worship him.
Many happy hours in junior high (and high school. …And a leetle bit in college. I really liked this game, okay?)
If there’s one thing I did learn from Euripides, it’s that when Dionysus shows up, YOU WORSHIP HIM!!!!!!!
Caesar 3 was superior *sniffs haughtily*
I had Zeus too but did you ever play the Atlantis version?!
I did! I had that expansion and built treacherous watery metropolis-es to my heart’s content. Any Krakens who dared threaten my city were made short work of a la “Fireballs from Heaven”
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Oh God, me too! The Horrible Histories books were my favourite thing when I was a child.
girl you have earned the right to phone it in. you basically circumnavigated the globe.
Kim Hill! Mallory! I miss the sounds of home and I really do want to say – you’ve made it in NZ when you get to talk to Kim Hill!
This was a great interview, it was a treat to hear Mallory talk about books.
If there were a Toast podcast, I would listen to it religiously.
As A Man, I do not have a website, but I am sleepy all the time, so I hope I’m right in that target demo.
Finally Euripides Gets What’s Coming To Him: My Interview Will Kill Him
me: “um wow Mallory I know you have an intense relationship to those old Greek guys but I thought he was pretty inoffensive”
Everyone in NZ agrees that Kim Hill is a babe, even the politicians she skewers on a regular basis.
more correctly assembled via muscles and time
eternal life goal
Kim Hill! <3
KIM HILL! KIM HILL!
Indeed, Mallory was in da house in NZ in a big way.
Possibly one thing we all agree on. Except my mother, the contrarian (she listens to the Antichrist, Leighton Smith. But even most Antichrist-followers will still admit Kim Hill is A Babe.)