Two helpful readers advised me to take note of the date (Apr. 1) of David Gill‘s bus-banner post on his Looting Matters blog (which I highlighted here), making me realize that my decision to stop blogging so feverishly has come none too soon!
One of my gentle helpers, a postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Villa, made me feel only slightly less stupid:
This is actually the second time today I have seen someone taken in by the image on Gill’s blog! Liz Marlowe used it in a presentation this morning at the Roman Archaeology Conference.
She gave me the website where I could make my own CultureGrrl bus image, but when I (of course) tried to do it, the image wouldn’t load. Do you think it’s trying to tell me something? (i.e., “Stop with the vain [in both senses of the word] attempts at self-promotion!”)
I just hope the wickedly witty classicist/blogger, Mary Beard of A Don’s Life, doesn’t get wind of this. Hey, at least I wasn’t taken in by this fake auction-house news (as were many commenters on Ed Winkleman’s blog).