tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49741263832728140222024-03-13T21:17:56.352-07:00CREEKIFICATIONNate Creekmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16370647247264817618noreply@blogger.comBlogger219125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974126383272814022.post-47584098129988231302018-06-25T05:42:00.002-07:002018-06-25T05:42:36.341-07:00New Website...so, I've been having a hard time getting anyone to take a look at these posts, and by "anyone" I don't mean any of you fine people. I mean people who run companies and businesses, people who see ".blogspot" at the end of my proffered links and think, "Blogspot? How unfashionable. This is hardly worth my time at all. How did this email get past my assistant? I'm going to fire him". <br />
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In fact, I've just posted a few thoughts about our beloved Michael Jordan. Come and see!</div>
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Nate Creekmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16370647247264817618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974126383272814022.post-49457245169417338142018-04-09T05:21:00.000-07:002018-04-09T05:21:11.173-07:00I'm The Boss, ApplesauceUsually, on this blog, I take a bunch of drawings and a bunch of words and I staple them all together to make a post about one thing or another. Today, however, I just have a bunch of drawings without any words to go along with them.<br />
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Here's a drawing of a trio of lost souls floating around Atlanta. I think it would look cool on a t-shirt...<br />
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Here's a KungFu grandmaster. I accidentally gave him girly-looking shoes:</div>
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A little elephant. My wife would probably like this one. She loves cute things. It's cute, right? No?</div>
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...since you've come this far, since you made it all the way to the bottom of the post, I'll give you a sneak peek at something I've been cooking up(!). It's a webcomic! And before you say, "Geez, Nate, <i>another </i>webcomic? I don't like your <i>current </i>webcomic. <a href="http://thesacredchickensofrome.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Sacred Chickens</a>? Seriously? You expect me to read <i>that</i>? Either talk (and draw) about race or talk (and draw) about <i>nothing</i>!", let me say, I hear you. You've had enough Rome. You've had enough chickens. Look, I can't promise this new webcomic won't ever mention Rome and I can't promise that it won't ever have a chicken or two pecking away in the background, but I can promise that it won't focus on Rome and it won't have a chicken for a protagonist. In fact, this is the protagonist:</div>
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Rai wasn't Marvel or DC, he was one of those weird Valiant characters. His thing was that he was the Spirit Guardian of a futuristic Japan that was floating out in space. Rai didn't ever punch man-shaped lizard monsters, but they drew a drawing of him punching man-shaped lizard monsters on this cover:<br />
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He wasn't super great at his job and he wasn't all that adept at fighting villains, but I was just learning about (and falling in love with) Kung-Fu flicks at that time and anything that bore any resemblance to anything in the world of Kung-Fu was cool with me. Rai was the most Kung Fu-ish looking character on the comic book shelf, so he was cool with me. And anyway he was a brand new character, only 6 issues old. I was sure he'd figure things out. So I grabbed issue #7, handed the cashier my allowance, and opened it up to see how things were going for him.<br />
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What did it mean? Why was he fighting a <i>girl </i>in the first place? How did she kill him with rainbow blasts? And who was the random guy in the last panel holding Rai's sword?<br />
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I'd never know the answers to any of these questions. But I'm a cartoonist (not a monetarily <i>successful </i>cartoonist, mind you, but a cartoonist nonetheless) and I recently decided to redraw those last few pages as a kind of therapy, a way to finally let Rai go after all these many years.<br />
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Huh. I do feel a little better. An odd demise for an odd character. God speed, Rai. We barely knew you.<br />
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...they re-booted Rai, actually, back in like 2014. It's not bad, great art by Clayton Crain.<br />
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Maybe I should make my own comic. You guys aren't really digging <a href="https://thesacredchickensofrome.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">The Sacred Chickens of Rome</a>, are you? What if I made a comic that had super heroes <i>instead </i>of chickens...?<br />
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Cheers.Nate Creekmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16370647247264817618noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974126383272814022.post-6240182360449652552018-03-12T05:30:00.000-07:002018-03-12T05:30:46.019-07:00David's Mighty Mens...are you guys tired of looking at my Bible drawings yet? No? Well, here's the latest one. It's from that scene in First Samuel when David and his men are about to go do some murder but they're stopped by a woman named Abigail.<br />
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Here's David with a head full of steam:</div>
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He had a rag tag bunch with him:</div>
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Some of his Mighty Men were probably there. This is how I envisage Benaiah (after David, he became Solomon's do-dirt guy):</div>
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Oh, and remember a few chapters earlier when he picks up the Goliath Sword from a priest at Nob?</div>
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Here's Abigail, melting David's heart:</div>
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And some of Abigail's people:</div>
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I've got some other ones, too.</div>
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Here's Lamech, from early on in the book of Genesis. Every other guy was good with one wife, Lamech took two.</div>
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I've got a pretty good stack of these at this point. When I get enough of them, maybe I'll bind them all up into a book and sell it on my website. This is the kind of thing people end up getting from me for Christmas and birthdays.</div>
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Don't be friends with artists, folks. You end up getting a bunch of homemade gifts that you have to pretend to like.</div>
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<br />Nate Creekmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16370647247264817618noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974126383272814022.post-7758680818899115052018-02-12T03:37:00.000-08:002018-02-12T03:37:12.008-08:00Might Makes MightSo, Thucydides...<br />
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He wrote <i>The History of the Peloponnesian War</i>. There's this part in it called <i>The Melian Dialogu</i>e. It's where Athens is about to attack the island of Melos.<br />
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The Athenians have a huge army and they're about to stomp all over Melos with it. In the dialogue, Thucydides imagines what the conversation was like when, before battle, representatives from the two sides met up to talk things over. The Melians were like:<br />
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And the Athenians were like:<br />
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And:<br />
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...why is it always like this:<br />
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Remember that scene in season 4 of <i>The Wire</i> where a security guard at a quickie mart steps to Marlo to complain that he, a man who lives by the rules and does his job, is stuck in a lowly position while Marlo, a man who deals in violence and vice, lives well and does as he pleases? Remember what Marlo said to the security guard?<br />
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...Melos was defeated, by the way. It was 416 or 415 BC. The Athenians killed every adult male in the city and sold the women and children into slavery...<br />
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<br />Nate Creekmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16370647247264817618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974126383272814022.post-29773262480568607862018-02-05T03:08:00.000-08:002018-02-05T03:08:26.289-08:00Folks, It's Shamgar. There's Going To Be Some Killing.<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>"...and after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel..."</i></span><br />
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...sorry for the confusion, folks. Turns out the guy on foot was a <i>Hivite</i>, not a Philistine. My mistake.<br />
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Nate Creekmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16370647247264817618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974126383272814022.post-45960865866839328292018-01-29T04:21:00.000-08:002018-01-29T04:21:43.392-08:00"Creeking More In The ATL (with your host Nate Creekmore)" Episode #86<div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18.47px; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">I'm not from Atlanta, but I live here, and (because I live here) people who don't live here ask me, "Creek, what's Atlanta <i>really </i>like?" I don't know what Atlanta is <i>really </i>like, but if you'd like to know what it's like for <i>me</i>, I invite you to sit back and enjoy another episode of "CREEKING MORE IN THE ATL (with your host Nate Creekmore)"!!!</span></b></div>
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<b>Look, they're not the <i>best </i>team in the NBA (technically speaking, they're the very <i>worst </i>team in the NBA), but they are <i>in </i>the NBA, and the NBA is one of my very favorite things.</b></div>
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<b>I first became a fan of the Atlanta Hawks in those Tracy McGrady days of yesteryore. That was back when they had Josh Smith and Joe Johnson and the team marketed itself as "The Highlight Factory".</b></div>
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<b>or 3. Do what I do: go to the games where the Hawks are playing against teams that no one is particularly excited to see. If you're trying to get some Hawks vs. Lebron tickets, it's going to cost you two arms and a couple of legs.</b></div>
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<b>The only sport worth watching is basketball because basketball is the only sport where people dunk on other people. The Hawks do not have a history of being a great basketball team, but they do have a history of having players who will dunk on you.</b></div>
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<b>Or when someone crosses someone up.</b></div>
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<b>Or when someone is collecting buckets.</b></div>
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<b>Cheering really gets the players going, it gets them hyped.</b></div>
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<b>Sometimes, as I sit watching the games, I wonder what would happen if we cheered like that for other good things. Like, what if we cheered when we spotted someone giving some food to one of those homeless guys with the handwritten signs? Or when we saw a smoker put his spent cigarette butt in an ash can instead of just throwing it on the sidewalk?</b></div>
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<b>I mean, I know we cheer for basketball game buckets, but what if we cheered for <i>life </i>buckets?</b></div>
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<b>This is the kind of thing you think about when you're faced with the prospect of cheering for the 2017-18 Atlanta Hawks.</b></div>
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<b>Sheesh.</b></div>
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Rome is founded on a fratricide, it is populated by outcasts from surrounding people groups, they get their wives by kidnapping young women from their neighbors... this is what they told themselves <i>about</i> themselves. I guess it makes sense when you're in a nation that worships war and finds its glory in the strength of its armies. But when you're in a nation that worships war and finds its glory in the strength of its armies yet wants desperately to think of itself as <i>Christian</i>, the candor of Rome is jarring.<br />
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I'm going to think on this some more...<br />
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But, in the meantime, I've written a <a href="http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/8489991-82-caesars" target="_blank">book</a>!<br />
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Get it? Creektonius? Suetonius? And look at that font! Hand crafted artisanal lettering!<br />
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Technically, it's more of a long poem than a proper book. I drew up a list of all the emperors of Rome starting with Julius* and ending with Romulus Augustulus and I've given each one of them two lines of rhyming verse. Here, I'll show you what I'm talking about:<br />
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<b>Caesar, the tyrant, wreaked havoc in Gaul</b></div>
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<b>Augustus laid marble to make Rome look grand</b></div>
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<b>Tiberius Caesar was dark and morose</b></div>
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<b>How very unlikely that Claudius would reign</b></div>
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<br />Nate Creekmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16370647247264817618noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974126383272814022.post-59928166103440950032017-11-05T20:59:00.001-08:002018-03-01T17:25:47.991-08:00Creeking More In The ATL (with your host Nate Creekmore) Episode #41<div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18.47px; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">I'm not from Atlanta, but I live here, and (because I live here) people who don't live here ask me, "Creek, what's Atlanta <i>really </i>like?" I don't know what Atlanta is <i>really </i>like, but if you'd like to know what it's like for <i>me</i>, I invite you to sit back and enjoy another episode of "CREEKING MORE IN THE ATL (with your host Nate Creekmore)"!!!</span></b></div>
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<b style="font-size: 13.19px;">Now, this wasn't the first or last time that I was ever accosted by a man with a gun (in this particular instance I was in my late 20's), but each time it happens I find that I am nervous. On the outside, as he rode up next to me on his motorcycle, I appeared to be my usual, stalwart self.</b></div>
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Nate Creekmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16370647247264817618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974126383272814022.post-87394345992629797212017-10-30T04:24:00.000-07:002017-10-30T04:24:13.469-07:00Shamgar's Anger Issues<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>"...and after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel..."</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Today, Shamgar kills Philistine #133 and Philistine #134</span></b></span></div>
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<br />Nate Creekmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16370647247264817618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974126383272814022.post-67682683830617279442017-10-16T05:07:00.000-07:002017-10-16T05:07:57.288-07:00It's Hard Out Here For A Philistine<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>"...and after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel..."</i></span><br />
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No? Not enough? Have you been checking out my webcomic, The Sacred Chickens of Rome? No? Well, then this would be a perfect time for you to go on a quick, 13-episode binge. Get caught up, folks. Things are about to get pretty crazy for those poor chickens...</div>
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Cheers.Nate Creekmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16370647247264817618noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974126383272814022.post-38763638725972617542017-09-18T05:11:00.000-07:002017-09-18T05:11:00.504-07:00Shamgar Back On The Hunt<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>"...and after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel..."</i></span><br />
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<i>When I Try To Draw Soccer (Futbol) Players They End Up Looking Like Basketball Players </i>watercolor and ink on yellow paper, 4x8 inches, The Prado, Madrid, Spain</div>
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<b>THEODOSIUS II 408-450</b><br />
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If he's remembered for anything, it's for taking the time to collect all of the Imperial Laws (from the days of Constantine onward) and binding them all together into something we've come to call the Theodosian Code. Also, in an effort to keep Constantinople safe from Huns and other invaders, he fortified the city with the impregnable Theodosian Walls.<br />
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In fact, those walls remained unbreached until the Ottomans came along in 1453. They were constructed when little Theo was only about 12 or 13 and was still under the care of his older sister (Pulcheria) and the Praetorian prefect Anthemius, so I guess they could just as well been called the Pulcherianthemian Walls (or the Arcadian Walls, since it was he who supposedly got the whole project underway).<br />
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In 423, when Honorius (emperor of the West) died of swelling, Theo II was thinking of going old school and running both halves of the empire on his own. As he pondered his decision, a civil servant named Johannes stepped up and took the western throne for himself.<br />
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<b>JOHANNES THE USURPER 423-425</b><br />
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Johannes suspected this was going to put him at odds with Theodosius II and the east and so he tried to reach out to the Huns for help, but before any Hunnic help could arrive, the eastern army showed up. They cut off Johannes' usurping hands, dragged his usurping body around the horse racing arena, and finally cut off his usurping head.<br />
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<b>VALENTINIAN III 425-455</b></div>
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...and placed under the guidance of Aetius, a commander who'd served under Johannes and worked out a deal for himself with Theo II.<br />
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It was around this time that Theo II began paying the Huns large sums of gold to keep them away. In 424, the Huns accepted 350 pounds of gold. In 433, Attila convinced Rome to double that amount and collected 700 pounds of gold. In 443, after the Huns defeated a couple of Roman armies, they demanded 2,100 pounds of gold. And in 450, Theodosius II fell off of his horse and died.<br />
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Meanwhile, out west, Valentinian III's general Aetius had teamed up with a Visigothic king and they led an army out to face the Huns in 451. At the Catalaunian Fields, they managed to do something no one had previously been able to do: they stopped the Huns.<br />
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I mean, the Huns were still able to ransack much of Gaul, and the Roman/Visigothic army was reduced to life support, but a stop is a stop.<br />
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However, Valentinian III, a hedonistic ruler who fancied sorcery and astrology and wading face-first into Christian controversies (in 445 he passed a law that recognized the primacy of whichever bishop happened to be in charge of Rome) felt threatened by the success of Aetius. One day, when Aetius showed up in court to present a report, Val III accused him of drunkeness, rushed him all at once, and gave him a terminal sword stroke to the side of the head.<br />
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Two years later, two of Aetius' supporters responded in kind and killed Valentinian III.<br />
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If you look a bit closer, you'll see that the man who incited Valentinian III to kill Aetius is the same man who later persuaded the two Aetian supporters to kill Valentinian III; the wealthy senator Petronius Maximus.<br />
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<b>PETRONIUS MAXIMUS 455</b><br />
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There's a murky story about how perhaps the lusty Val III seduced Pet Max's wife and Pet Max had been plotting his revenge ever since. Whatever the backstory, after Val III's assassination, Petronius found himself in charge of Rome... tentatively. The thing is, he didn't have much in the way of support, so when the Vandals rode on Rome in 455, his people abandoned him. He tried to sneak out of the city but, as soon as he got outside of the city walls, an angry mob spotted him and stoned him to death. Then they mutilated his corpse and threw it in the Tiber.<br />
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When the Vandals showed up, they spent two full weeks sacking the city, but out of respect for Pope Leo, they agreed to refrain from any excessive arson or murder. On their way out, they took the empress (formerly married to Valentinian III and then Petronius Maximus) and her daughter.<br />
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Over in Gaul, the Visigothic king Theodoric II saw an opportunity to install his own man on the Roman throne and promoted his pal Avitus.<br />
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<b>AVITUS 455-456</b><br />
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When Avitus arrived in Rome (from Gaul) to officially take his seat, a powerful Romanized Germanic commander named Ricimer (stationed at Ravenna) promptly rebelled. Ricimer rode out against Avitus and defeated him, but decided to spare his life. Instead of killing Avitus, Ricimer made him become a bishop, which effectively took him out of the game (of thrones).<br />
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Ricimer's man was a senator/general named Majorian.<br />
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<b>MAJORIAN 457-461</b><br />
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Majorian managed to reconquer parts of Spain and Gaul after strengthening his forces with barbarian mercenaries.<br />
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...but Ricimer got nervous about Majorian's growing power and decided the best thing to do would be to arrest him and torture him and cut off his head.<br />
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Ricimer replaced Majorian with a puppet named Severus III.<br />
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<b>SEVERUS III 461-465</b><br />
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Severus III was docile and malleable and managed to die of natural causes. Ricimer liked Severus III, but not many other people did. Severus III was never recognized as a legitimate emperor by most of the west (or the east) and really only controlled a small portion of Italy.<br />
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<b>ANTHEMIUS 467-472</b><br />
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Anthemius was a general who'd proven himself capable in the past, fighting successfully against Goths and Huns. When he rode against Vandals and Visigoths in 467 and 470, however, success was elusive. Ricimer, not a fan of Anthemius in the first place, rode on Rome in 472 and beheaded Anthemius in St Peter's Basilica.<br />
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Having done away with Anthemius, Ricimer installed another Roman noble. This one was named Olybrius.<br />
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<b>OLYBRIUS 472</b><br />
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Olybrius had all the makings of a willing puppet but Ricimer died in 472 and Olybrius quickly followed in kind, succumbing to dropsy only a few months later.<br />
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The eastern empire did not recognize Glycerius and sent out their own man, Julius Nepos, to take over.<br />
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<b>JULIUS NEPOS 474-475</b><br />
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Julius Nepos, former governor of Dalmatia, deposed Glycerius without a fight and sent him to Dalmatia to be a bishop.<br />
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But Julius Nepos' own commander, Orestes, deposed him and forced him to flee to Dalmatia where he is thought to have been killed by Glycerius and/or his own men around the year 480.<br />
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Orestes installed his own son, the appropriately named Romulus Augustulus, as emperor in 475.<br />
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<b>ROMULUS AUGUSTULUS 475-476</b><br />
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Both Orestes and Romulus Augustulus were dominated by Odoacer and the Germanic mercenaries who eventually demanded Italian land for themselves. Orestes balked, so they killed him and deposed Romulus, allowing the boy to retire to Naples with a modest pension. He was so unimportant that no one took the trouble to make note of how or when he died.<br />
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And that's it. That was the end of the Roman Empire and the men who sat on the throne as rulers. It was a pretty gradual thing and nobody living at the time made any real fuss about Romulus Augustulus. The empire had been catatonic for years and it ended not with a scream but with a whisper, a whisper so quiet that it wasn't even noticed.<br />
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Kind of anticlimactic, no? The eastern empire kept on going (we call it the Byzantine Empire) until 1453 when the Ottoman's took over, but the western chunk of the Roman Empire was done. Some people believe it stopped being the Roman Empire long before 476. Some say it ended with the death of Commodus or during the Third Century Crisis or when Constantine came to power or when Rome itself was sacked... the point is, for me, that it ended and that, in its wake, it left a fascinating legacy.<br />
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Cheers.Nate Creekmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16370647247264817618noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974126383272814022.post-24524137945395966842017-08-14T04:35:00.000-07:002017-08-14T04:35:35.784-07:00For Your Enjoyment, Several Recent Drawings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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...and here is a sketch I did of a lion approaching a guy who puts boots on vehicles, even when those vehicles are correctly parked in the space designated for loading/unloading and the concierge told the driver that he doesn't need to put any kind of validation on the dashboard because the vehicle is clearly marked as a commercial delivery vehicle...</div>
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<br />Nate Creekmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16370647247264817618noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974126383272814022.post-1957315553722167492017-08-06T20:12:00.000-07:002017-08-06T20:12:21.372-07:00A Group of Philistines Goes For A Walk<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>"...and after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel..."</i></span><br />
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Nate Creekmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16370647247264817618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974126383272814022.post-36771690555363313392017-07-31T06:12:00.000-07:002017-07-31T06:12:52.664-07:00Jovian and Valentinian I and Valens and Gratian and Valentinian II and Theodosius I and Eugenius the Usurper and Arcadius and Honorius<span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span>hen last we spoke, Julian the Apostate had just been stabbed to death with a(n assassin's?) spear and died. Which brings us to Jovian.<br />
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<b>JOVIAN 363-364</b></div>
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Jovian, like his father before him, was an imperial bodyguard. And he was a Christian, which means the anti-Christian Julian was either willing to employ Christians as long as they didn't act all You Should Be A Christian Too, or Jovian (and everyone else who believed in Jesus) kept his faith a secret. <br />
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Jovian wasn't anyone's first choice for emperor following Julian's death. The officers originally offered the position to an old Praetorian who, after considering what a lousy job being emperor actually is, respectfully declined. Jovian, having no such inhibition, accepted the job as soon as it was offered.<br />
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It turned out that most of the troops misheard the announcement. Some of them, apparently, heard the name "Jovian" as "Julian" and thought the Apostate had recovered from his wound. Others thought they'd announced that a notable notary named Jovianus had been chosen. Instead of either of those men, they got Jovian.<br />
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If you'll recall, all of this took place in 363, in the middle of a large military expedition against the Persians. And things hadn't been going well. In fact, Julian was leading the army on a strategic retreat when he was fatally struck down. Jovian's first task was to complete the retreat, and he secured safe passage for the Roman forces by paying the Persians a bunch of cash and agreeing to give back a bunch of land. Under the circumstances, this was probably the wisest thing to do, but it made Jovian unpopular.<br />
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Another thing that made Jovian unpopular was when he burned down the Library of Antioch. He meant it to be a strike against paganism, but Christians (the literate ones who were keen on books) didn't like it anymore than the pagans.<br />
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But Jovian didn't end up having much opportunity to leave a lasting impression on anyone; in 364, whilst en route to Constantinople, he died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a fire he'd kindled in his tent.<br />
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<b>VALENTINIAN I 364-375</b><br />
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Valentinian I had been a commander under Julian without a great deal of success but Jovian kept him around anyway and promoted him. When Jovian died in his tent, Valentinian I was closer than any of the other likely candidates for the throne and so power passed to him.<br />
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He accepted the position, elevated his brother Valens to co-emperorship, and (per custom) split the empire into two parts. Valentinian I set up court in Milan and controlled the West. Valens set up in Constantinople and controlled the East.<br />
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Valentinian I spent all of his time fighting Gallic raiders and Sarmatians and the Quadi. In 375, a group of Quadi met with Valentinian I to parlay. Valentinian I, an intemperate man given to frequent outbursts of anger, found their attitude to be so insolent and discourteous that he flew into a rage:<br />
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<b>VALENS 364-378</b></div>
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He'd had to put down a revolt led by Julian's cousin (Procopius) and Gothic tribes were starting to to move into Roman territory in order to escape the Huns. Valens thought the best thing to do would be to let some of them settle in Roman territory. But the local Roman officials mistreated the foreigners and, in response, the tribesmen banded together into a formidable army (mostly Visigoths and Ostrogoths) and eventually met Valens in battle. At Hadrianople in 378, Valens took an arrow in the face...</div>
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Now, around the year 367, Valentinian I promoted his son Gratian (aged 8) to the rank of junior emperor with him in the west. When Valentinian I died of a stroke, Gratian (now aged 16) took over the job of western emperor.</div>
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<b>GRATIAN 367-383</b></div>
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Valentinian's other son, the 4-year-old Valentinian II was named Gratian's juior emperor.<br />
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<b>VALENTINIAN II 375-392</b></div>
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Gratian, in matters of religion, was led by Ambrose, the inordinately powerful Bishop of Milan. He set out to repress paganism, famously removing the Altar of Victory from the Roman senate house.</div>
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In Britain, a Roman general named Magnus Maximus revolted against the unaccountably unpopular Gratian and led the army down to attack Roman Gaul. Gratian's men abandoned him and he was captured and killed at Lyons in 383.<br />
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Remember when Valens died in 378? That's when Gratian named Theodosius I, a Spanish officer, emperor of the east.<br />
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So, just to be clear, we now have Valentinian II in the west and Theodosius I in the east.<br />
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The young Valentinian II was now the sole emperor of the west but found himself dominated by a man named Arbogast, the commander of his armies. Valentinian began to resent Arbogast and attempted to dismiss him from his position. Arbogast, unmoved, replied, "You can't fire me because I don't work for you. I work for Theodosius."<br />
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Arbogast, really feeling himself at this point, decided to nominate a former grammar & rhetoric teacher named Eugenius (known to posterity as "The Usurper") for the position of emperor of the west.<br />
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<b>EUGENIUS THE USURPER 392-394</b></div>
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Eugenius was a Christian, but he used public money to support pagan building projects which put him at odds with Theodosius I who, in 391, outlawed paganism and declared Christianity <i>the </i>official religion of the Roman Empire. Theodosius killed Mag Max in 388 and in 394 he made time to kill Eugenius and Arbogast. But before that, Theo had all kinds of adventures. In 382, he signed a peace treaty with the Visigoths which allowed them to occupy Roman territory under the authority of their own king. In 390, he massacred a bunch of Thessalonian citizens after they killed one of his commanders. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan was so incensed by this act of violence that he formally excommunicated Theodosius and wouldn't let him back into the church until he'd repented by sitting outside the church and crying for 8 months.<br />
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Honorius was only a boy when he became emperor of the western half of the Roman Empire and, as such, he fell under the guardianship of his general, Stilicho. Around 401, Alaric, king of the Visigoths, began raiding Italy and Stilicho managed to push him back. Honorius, convinced that Stilicho was plotting to overthrow him, had Stilicho arrested and executed and when Alaric returned in 410 he was able to successfully march all the way to Rome. And when he arrived, he sacked the city.<br />
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(it isn't able to get back on its feet, it just falls apart completely)<br />
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<br />Nate Creekmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16370647247264817618noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974126383272814022.post-83340596552257838182017-07-24T04:10:00.000-07:002017-07-24T04:10:24.474-07:00A Modest Proposal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">A</span>s of this coming Saturday (July 29th), I will have been married to my lovely wife, Rebekah, for one year!</div>
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But before we got married, I had to <i>ask </i>her to marry me, and instead of skywriting or attaching a ring to a puppy's collar or something, I made her a book. Wanna see it? Of course you do. Here it is:</div>
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At this point, I took out the ring (the one in the box in my jacket pocket) and handed her a red pen and she checked the box over "yes". <br />
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That's when I slid the ring on her finger and held her close. Boy, that was an awfully great night.<br />
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Cheers.Nate Creekmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16370647247264817618noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974126383272814022.post-53642789898243266502017-07-09T20:24:00.000-07:002017-07-09T20:28:49.874-07:00Creeking More In The ATL (with your host Nate Creekmore) Episode #29<div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18.47px; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">I'm not from Atlanta, but I live here, and (because I live here) people who don't live here ask me, "Creek, what's Atlanta <i>really </i>like?" I don't know what Atlanta is <i>really </i>like, but if you'd like to know what it's like for <i>me</i>, I invite you to sit back and enjoy another episode of "CREEKING MORE IN THE ATL (with your host Nate Creekmore)"!!!</span></b></div>
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Remember <i>Where's Waldo</i>, those books you could get from the Scholastic Book Order pamphlets your teacher used to pass out in elementary school? They had expansive, intricate drawings of crowds and you had to squint at them and try to find Waldo in his red-striped shirt and cap? Well guess what? I've made one!<br />
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Still nothing? Well, keep looking. Maybe he's over by the girl with the mask...<br />
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Nope. Maybe he's over on the right with the guy with the beard.</div>
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...have you tried over by the pumpkin-headed king..?</div>
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...want a hint? Okay, go back over to the frog in the Mongol helmet...</div>
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Come on guys! HE'S RIGHT THERE!! Do you <i>really </i>not see him? Look over at the swirly thing on the side of his head.</div>
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You see him now, right? No? Are you joking? He's right in front of your face! I'm embarrassed for you.</div>
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This is shameful. Seriously. OPEN YOUR EYES!<br />
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Finally!!! ...or could you just not see him because he's <i>black</i>...?<br />
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Cheers.Nate Creekmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16370647247264817618noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974126383272814022.post-47162060507281386542017-06-25T20:23:00.000-07:002017-06-25T20:23:51.902-07:00Shamgar Oxgoads a Couple More Philistines<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>"...and after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel..."</i></span><br />
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Smote and smote. It must have been terrifying to be a Philistine during the days of Shamgar. 2 down, 585 to go.</div>
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