January 2011
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Big brains on the Today show grapple with the question, 1994: http://www.youtube.com/e/9nTPX4JW_Ts (Hat tip to Karen)
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Weekend Music One of the master’s less well-known but most engaging songs. I don’t know whether he invented the word “coolerator” or not, but it’s a great word. http://www.youtube.com/e/uuM2FTq5f1o I find myself hoping that Pierre and the mademoiselle are still alive and still married somewhere in east Louisiana, and that they still get up…
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I'd never heard the term "burrito ministry" before Janet sent me this story.
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Dr. Ed Dyas, RIP Almost twenty years ago, in late 1991, I developed severe back problems that eventually made it hard for me to stand up for more than a few minutes at a time, and resulted in my having surgery on Mardi Gras of 1992. The surgeon was Dr. Ed Dyas. As far as…
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I just decided not to watch the Super Bowl. Well, at least not the beginning. Or the half-time show.
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Weekend Music My friend Robert introduced me to Sudbin's Scarlatti album some months ago. I was initially a little cool to it, writing to Robert that Sudbin seemed too fast in the fast parts and too slow in the slow parts. Also, most of the sonatas were unfamiliar to me, and I had to get…
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http://www.youtube.com/e/5N1Im1xbjWQ This is strikingly foreshadowed in Walker Percy's The Thanatos Syndrome: During the minute or so of happy talk at the end of a newscast, when other members of NewsTeam-7 are smiling and making pleasantries and semi-jokes as they stack their papers, Chandra will have none of it: no grins, no banter. Instead, she…
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You don't see much naturally-occurring ice in this part of the country. This is a fountain in the chapel quadrangle at Spring Hill College. Taken a couple of weeks ago, with my phone so not a very high quality photo. Notice how the students are dressed. They don't look very cold, do they? Well, they weren't.…
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I have to make this quick, because we just lost power and I think it's going to be down for a while, and I only have a few minutes of battery time left. Please pray for my friend Daniel (Nichols), who is going to have a heart catheterization procedure on Thursday. It should be routine, but…
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A recent piece in The New Criterion—I can’t even remember which one now—mentioned in passing that the writer had seen advertised in the New York Times t-shirts which read “I Fear Americans.” I thought that was a pretty striking sign of how deeply estranged some of our urban sophisticates are from the rest of the…
Light On Dark Water 