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The 2007 ND-UCLA game was a once in a lifetime experience, I hope

"You are a nerd!" She says, "I know daddy, so are you."

Probably my greatest achievement as a dad, raising a nerd.

My wife and I got married on Bloomsday, because we're both giant nerds. We didn't serve kidneys, but there was plenty of Guinness at the reception.

https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/food-drink/bloomsday-the-meals-james-joyce-would-h...

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by telling us how much said character enjoys the "fine tang of faintly scented urine."

I share your interest in Polyphemus--my dad told me that story when I was very young, and it's always stuck with me--and the political content of that episode fascinates me. I probably would have named "Cyclops" as my favorite the first few times I read the book, but I fell under the spell of "Sirens" when writing my dissertation. The technique in that episode is, in my opinion, the most interesting thing Joyce ever did with his prose.

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It's probably not terribly original to cite this as one's favorite chapter, but aside from the barroom carrying-on making you feel like you're in the actual pub with them, I've always had this near obsession with the Polyphemus tale, from deep in my childhood, that makes me actually read this as a stand-alone chapter pretty frequently.

My obsession with the cyclops part of the Odyssey originated the way it probably did for many kids of my age - with Ray Harryhausen. The first time I saw "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad" it freaked my ass right out. It was mainly the fighting skeletons that gave me nightmares, but there was also this:

As a young adult I became somewhat obsessed with JMW Turner when I read Simon Schama's analysis of his work in "Landscape and Memory." Obviously, I can't afford an original Turner, but I do have a 120 year old mezzotint of "Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus," viz:

I didn't have that print at the time I first read "Ulysses," but when I saw it in the gallery I developed a mental picture of a giant flying biscuit tin coming from the left-hand side toward the the ship as it escaped.

Edit - over on NDNation, I used to post under the name Blazes Boylan. I had narrowed my choices to that and Barney Kiernan, but chose the former because I thought it was more readily identifiable to the story.

I'm torn between Sirens and Ithaca.

Happy Bloomsday and, oh, Father's Day to TPGers.