Beware the Slides of March

"The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault. And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it."

Some quick context: My friend Mike and I were, at the time, the only two double majors in both the Journalism program and the Classics department at the University of Missouri. Naturally, as two weirdos are wont to do, we celebrated the Ides of March by watching movies about ancient Rome. Since graduation, Mike created and sent me songs, radio shows, an…