August 2007
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Pop Music for the Desert Island (Not sure how this is going to display, so it may be shifting around for a while.) I knew I was going to be pretty busy this weekend, so, just for fun, I dredged up this list. I have always resisted the sort of name-your-top-N albums/songs/artists games that pop…
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As we nervously watch the projected path of the season's first hurricane, memories of Katrina return. I wrote about our brush with Katrina here, but never posted any pictures. Here are a couple. Keep these facts in mind as you look at the pictures: Our house is a bit over 100 yards (90-100m) from Mobile…
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This pretty much sums it up (via the eMusic blog 17dots). Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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I have almost completely given up reading the comments at Rod Dreher's Crunchy Con blog, which contain more sneering and ranting than I'm willing to read—more and more I am unwilling to waste even a minute of my life on such stuff. But this thread is very much worth your while. Rod asks for stories…
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Bah. I doubt I will bother watching again. This one was preachier than the first and had some massive lapses in logical consistency, or at least in explication. When I feel like watching another iteration of Super-Wise Super-Powerful Aliens May Save Us From Ourselves, I'll rent The Day the Earth Stood Still again. My wife…
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What Keats Didn’t Say (and May Not Have Known) Ryan C wondered last week about my addendum to the famous line from Keats in my epigraph above. Here is a reflection on the subject in which I’ll try to articulate something that is mostly a bundle of intuitions, so it may not be perfectly coherent,…
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The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band This year marking the fortieth anniversary of the release of this album, I thought it appropriate to listen to it for the first time in many, many years. I had made its acquaintance in 1967 via a soon-scratchy LP and a portable record player, and was curious…
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I don't know how many people read both this blog and Caelum et Terra. In case you read this and not the other: I always post a link to my Sunday night posts there, and it has provoked some really good comments that help to clarify the matter. I particularly like Christopher Zehnder's comment, the…
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I recommend that you gift-wrap it: make sure your sound is adjusted to a comfortable level for a YouTube clip, click on this link, then immediately close your eyes or turn your back. Listen for at least a minute or so before you look. This is not some kind of trick–it isn't a blood-curdling scream…
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She is one of the saints to whom I'm very much drawn. Nevertheless I only realized tonight, when I opened up the Magnificat, that today is her feast day. As there are still some forty minutes left before midnight, I can still mark the day with a few of her words from the paragraphs reproduced…
Light On Dark Water 