January 2009
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I’ve been thinking of these two lines since posting the anecdote below. They were all I could remember of the poem, and I wasn’t sure who wrote it, so it took me a bit of looking to find it. Women are really much nicer than men:No wonder we like them. —Kingsley Amis, “A Bookshop Idyll”…
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I picked this up on a whim at the library a couple of weeks ago, when my daughter was home from college and the only Netflix movies we had at home were very serious, heavy things (e.g The Machinist). This looked like a pleasant light romance that all three of us—wife, daughter, and self—might enjoy.…
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In a comment yesterday (somewhere in Janet’s Undead Thread, I think) Francesca mentioned a female student who was uncomfortable as the only woman in a class. It reminded me of something that happened to me quite a few years ago, in the early 1980s when I was maybe 35 or so. I was participating in…
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This Christmas my wife decided to put these big globes covered with tiny lights in the live oak tree in the front yard and in the vines over the swing. The effect was rather enchanting. I tried to take pictures of it but without a tripod I got a lot of blurring. Still… Click through…
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Second in a whenever series. I’m not so sure this one is true but it’s funny: Angst Is Not A Weltanschauung. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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…tell me our new president is not going to own a breed of dog known as the “labradoodle.” Why can’t he just get a basic all-American kind of dog? Like, you know, a German shepherd? Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Still more from Ratzinger/Benedict’s Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures. The book is concerned with the implications of our modern attempt to create a civilization that denies the existence of God, but much of it applies to the individual as as well as to cultures. Even if I throw in my theoretical lot with agnosticism,…
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Of course everyone in the English-speaking Catholic world knows that “Father Neuhaus” is Father Richard John Neuhaus, editor of First Things and prolific writer, and that he died a couple of days ago. Francesca Murphy mentioned it in a comment (I’m not sure on which post), and I replied that I hadn’t posted anything about…
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At Amazon.com, 104 mp3 tracks, 10 cds' worth, of Ormandy-Philadelphia recordings for $9.99. The selections are not identified by composer but there seem to be a good many complete symphonies and other works, as well as the tidbits one might expect in a collection like this. If you're not a classical music lover but are…
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Mystery Roar from Outer Space The story doesn’t really quite justify the headline (not surprisingly), but it’s still interesting. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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