June 2011
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Weekend Music Trying to drink from the fire hose of inexpensive music over the past ten years or so inevitably causes me to give less attention to a lot of music that really deserves more. One instance is the self-titled first album by the Derek Trucks Band. I played it a few times when I…
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I've often thought that Palin's speech accepting the vice-presidential nomination in 2008 served as a sort of test of whether one likes or dislikes middle-class evangelical Christians. (White ones, I mean; black evangelicals are treated differently, though they are very much on the same page religiously.) If you basically like them, as I do, your…
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Taken Tuesday morning on the way to work (with my phone, so not a very high quality picture).
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…how many people think (fantasize) like this? And how much of that reflects the success of advertising strategies? (I do, sometimes, though I don't usually act on it. I also have a weird mental habit, a result of reading too many murder mysteries, of imagining myself describing to a cop or a lawyer something that just…
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Some may remember that I have a web site that includes three categories of writing: Prose, Verse, and Blog. I brought the prose over to this blog some time ago, but the verse has taken some time. I've finally got the poems that were on the old site here–see the Verse item in the sidebar.…
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If I could stop the dawn, I would; if the house across the way should fail to lose its ghostliness to the wretched light of day, I might remain as I am now, might stumble on the truth, might see the beasts of reason serve stripped of claw and tooth. What I have done, what…
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When I look in my mirror what do you think I see? A pair of dull brown eyes that will not look at me. And when I look out my window what do you think I see? All the world and the great blue sky hurrying away from me.
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Sunday Night Journal — June 5, 2011 Ingmar Bergman: Interviews, edited by Raphael Shargel. University Press of Mississippi, 2007. It wasn’t until I started to write this review that I looked at the publication data of the book. Why was it published by the University Press of Mississippi instead of some bigger and more well-known…
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It is an interesting commentary on the changes produced by the Internet that a letter to the editor in the local newspaper contained a link to this piece in the Telegraph. Fifteen or more years ago it would have been rare for anyone in this area to be aware of the Telegraph's existence, and extremely rare…
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Talk of the English Reformation reminded me that a few days ago my web wanderings (which I really need to cut back on) brought me to this interesting post by a blogger who calls herself Neo-neocon. She's recently compared the 1970 BBC series "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" to a Showtime series about the Tudors. (Not sure…
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