July 2010
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Weekend Music Let’s see how long I can keep this string of husband-wife collaborations going. Thanks to Rob G for the link. This song is from an album released in 1997, and apparently The Sundays haven’t released anything since. According to their AMG bio, they decided to withdraw from the music biz to focus on…
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I know she’s serious, and it’s a serious matter, but I couldn’t help snickering a bit at the way Anne Rice has publicly repudiated Christianity. It sounds so juvenile, like a teenage girl yelling “I just…just…HATE all of you!”, bursting into tears, running off into her room and slamming the door. I really don’t know…
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I'm not responsible for what happens to your mind if you click here. I will note that it may take me a while to recover.
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I've never seen The View but I gather it's a women's talk show on which Obama appeared yesterday. This image certainly captures a significant element of his appeal.
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I'm embarrassed to say that I knew almost nothing about Ernest Shackleton until tonight. I knew that he was one of the explorers of one of the poles, but I didn't even know which one, and I didn't know whether he succeeded or failed, lived or died. Well, now I know, thanks to this excellent…
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It was also in Mooresville that I first encountered my other great love: music. It may even be a greater love; if I’d been born with more musical ability and weren’t so lazy, I might have made myself a competent performer. There is an interview with Walker Percy in which he is asked what he…
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This review by Craig Burrell of a book about the liturgy is itself an excellent essay on the topic.
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Weekend Music Another sweet catchy love song. I guess I'm ruining my reputation with stuff like this; the title of this one is especially against my usual grain, as I know I've mentioned how much I like rain. But it's not ironic. This song was given away on either eMusic or Amazon a few weeks…
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If you don’t know what this is about, don’t worry about it. If you do: I don’t think the Tea Party is in its essence racist. I don’t think the NAACP is in its essence racist. It’s time, it’s far, far past time, for all of us to stop actively looking for occasions to call each…
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Sort of a strange thing: these Easter lilies just appeared by the side of the road near my house, here in the middle of July. I guess they grew from a discarded one. The plant is 6 feet tall or so (~2 meters).
Light On Dark Water 