November 2009
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Comrade, Ellen and Gabe’s humongous rather large dog, just wants a place at the table. Is that too much to ask? Apparently it is. So, being tall enough to put his head on the table, he resorts to direct action. Some thought I should have been stopping him rather than taking this picture. But ars…
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I finally figured out how to use the night settings on my camera to get a decent picture of the moon over the bay. This is not bad, though the color isn’t right. For some reason the camera warms colors significantly, so as they came from the camera the pictures (this is one of several…
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I used to love this show. Perhaps it ought to make me feel old to learn that it’s 50 years old (see this CNN story), but if anything it makes me feel young, because there are moments, watching a clip like the one below, when I feel the same delight as when I watched it…
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I noticed a week or so ago that there was a sudden spike in traffic to this blog, and it’s continuing and increasing. Upon looking further into the SiteMeter data, I found that the main source of the increase is from people doing Google image searchs for the word “Advent,” or for a particular Sunday…
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I reviewed (favorably) the Tom Baker Quartet’s first album, Look What I Found, last year here. I’ve been listening to their second album, SAVE, off and on for a couple of months now, and on the whole I like it even better. My taste for unstructured music is limited, and most of SAVE is more…
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You may think this is an ordinary orange, or perhaps a tangerine. But it is in fact something greater than either of those. It is a satsuma. I love oranges and grapefruit and citrus fruits in general, but since I moved to the Gulf Coast the satsuma has become the queen of my heart, or…
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And I’m not saying the ACLU are a bunch of Nazis. Actually I’m thinking more along the lines of “commerce succeeds where fascism failed.” (But the ACLU, the militant multiculturalists and secularists, et.al., are helping in their own ways.) http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Deal Hudson, shopping for headphones, introduces the clerk to classical music. It’s touching, and a good indicator of why this music will never die as long as there are people capable of playing it and listening to it. From Terry Teachout, here’s a nice short appreciation of Johnny Mercer (actually from a longer piece which…
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To this. The hypocritical double standard about political participation by religious groups—praiseworthy, “prophetic,” etc. on the left, sinister and unconstitutional on the right—is egregious and intellectually shameful. http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Louise asked me, in the comment thread on the previous post, what I thought about Belloc’s The Great Heresies, especially the last chapter. So I re-read that chapter (I had read the book twenty or so years ago, in the 1980s sometime), and I’m impressed by its prophetic insight and accuracy. As I said in…
Light On Dark Water 