August 2010
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Weekend Music Low is a band I’ve heard many good things about and have been meaning to investigate. It’s centered on the husband-wife team of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker. This is a lovely song, though beyond impressions I’m not sure what it’s about. Sparhawk and Parker are reportedly practicing Mormons. Much more info here.
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Sympathetic words (more sympathetic than mine) for Anne Rice, from Kathryn Jean Lopez.
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The main reason I haven’t been interested in watching Mad Men is that I was pretty certain it would be impossible for the entertainment industry to produce a tv show set in the late ’50s-early ’60s without including a lot of self-congratulatory stuff about how much more enlightened we are than those pigs. I find it…
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Here's an interesting footnote to the last SNJ, on the question of whether I, or anyone else, would have been significantly different as an adult if school hadn't fostered my (one's) laziness etc. The tentative answer would be: no.
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There is a great picture attached to this not-so-great story.
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Today is also the memorial of Edith Stein, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, who wrote that "being = being-known-by-God."
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Today is 8-9-10. Isn't that cool? In the U.S., anyway. I think in Europe it's 9-8-10, right?
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Does anybody know how to pronounce "Wycleff Jean"? I mean, the way he would pronounce it.
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I’ve heard the term “playing possum” all my life, but I’d never seen the thing itself happen until Friday night. I went out as usual with my two dogs, the larger one, Lucy, not on a leash, because she’s pretty obedient, the smaller one, Andy, on a leash, because he isn’t. As we started down…
Light On Dark Water 