WRI 16: Alex the Charcoal Guy
March 23, 2008 10:17 pm Uncategorized
A Retraction! The Shoes of the Ranger; Alex the Charcoal Guy. Crones. Prester John and the El Dorado of Early Christendom.
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neil :
Date: March 24, 2008 @ 7:22 am
A quibble, but another mistake from what is now modern Turkey. The tortures of Diocletian did not take place in Constantinople, let alone Istanbul! He did not rule the empire from that city, as it did not exist. It was founded by, and named after, Constantine, the first, nominally, Christian emperor, who reigned after Diocletian.
Mark :
Date: March 24, 2008 @ 7:35 am
True enough. We do not mean to imply that Diocletian ravaged the Istanbuli devout. His prey were Christians in the heartland of Asia Minor, Anatolya, which is where one would travel today to visit the beautiful cave country of Cappadocia, a Roman province since AD 17, and blessed home of Alex.
Doublestuff :
Date: March 24, 2008 @ 10:28 pm
What is Marks hat size? Is it biger than Sherlock Holms? Saint Hubert.
Tv is for suckers.
jonathan :
Date: March 25, 2008 @ 6:11 am
Retractions? Corrections? Apologies!? Come on, if I wanted indisputable truth I’d go…um, somewhere else. What I expect from WRI is rich esoterica with a faint hint of factual basis. So that the Flintstones didn’t live in a cave, that Manhasset is actually in the western part of Long Island, and that this disputed Saint was not actually born a women, (like the “embellishments” of James Frey) does nothing to detract from my enjoyment.
jimmyd :
Date: March 30, 2008 @ 7:01 pm
Please, more.
Or barring that, links to some other podcasts that might tie us over until the next one.
moonrocks :
Date: March 24, 2010 @ 2:58 pm
My grandfather was a Charcoal Guy (beside being a butcher and a keeper of a local church keys), so I guess I could become related to a saint if I just fill in an application form for his consecration!!!! Regarding still fresh Roman catholic church scandals, with his qualities I am sure the Vatican council would have no problems accepting him to the brotherhood of Saints. If I could just present them a local valley chronicle, where one can find a nice description of his mild and loving character (every day deadly drunk he chased his swiftly slender wife around the house with a little jackknife, threatening to “cut her in 1/4 kilo pieces”…)
After Grandmas death he got himself a housemaid who looked exactly like depicted crone, folded in 90 degrees angle (makes me wonder what was the real purpose here)….
Dioklecijan, another candidate for a Saint, who comes from our country (Split) administered part of Asia, Thrace and Egypt. As far as they told us in school. Probably he was in fact just having some good time on some tropical island….
Very cute show this sweet sixteen; Jonathan, my thoughts exactly….