March 2010
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There is a lot happening in the world right now that I would like to comment on, but it seems inappropriate for Holy Week. This is much more fitting: A translation can be found here. By the way, I probably won’t be online much until Sunday, and not at all on Friday.
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I forgot to mention how much I want to go live on Fårö.
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You may have noticed that I haven't written much about movies for some time now. That's partly because I haven't been watching them at the rate I was doing for a couple of years there, and partly because nothing I've seen over the past few months has made a very big impression on me. (I…
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In last week’s SNJ I mentioned The Doors’ first album as an example of the dark side of hippie romanticism. When I wrote that, I was operating strictly from memory. I hadn’t heard it for perhaps forty years, aside from the occasional presence of a greatly abridged “Light My Fire” on the radio. Well, I…
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(Weekend Music—hat tip to Robert W) Yeah, yeah, I know. Just like me to post a sad song about spring. But it’s great. Read the absolutely fascinating story of the song here. Did it make you think of “The Waste Land”? Not an accident.
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A guest post by Janet Cupo, for the feast of the Annunciation I have been thinking a lot about the Annunciation this past year. For many years, I’ve tried to say the Angelus morning, noon, and evening. This has been really easy to remember since I started working because the day falls naturally into these…
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…those who, when they see a guy speeding down the highway on a motorcycle, think He's going to get himself killed on that thing, and those who think Man I wish that was me.
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…yesterday I re-read what I wrote on this subject last summer, and it stands as my basic view on the subject. The only thing that's changed is that the CBO has evaluated the current plan more approvingly than whatever was under consideration in August. And from what I've read this approval depends on a lot…
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…that I ran across this quote from Christopher Dawson on the day the House passed its health care “reform” bill: It may be harder to resist a totalitarian state that relies on free milk and birth control clinics than one which relies on castor oil and concentration camps. This appears to be from 1938; it’s…
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(Weekend Music) Yeah, I know, there hasn't been much here except weekend music–I'm still having to think more about design and maintenance of the blog than writing. Rob Grano sent me this several days ago (thanks, Rob), and it was only this morning that I finally had a chance to listen to/watch it. It's a…
Light On Dark Water 