October 2011
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A few weeks ago my wife suggested that I subscribe to a daily email from the Vatican News Service. I was a bit skeptical, figuring it would be mostly routine Vatican stuff: this guy is appointed bishop of that diocese, the president of such-and-such country will have an audience with the pope, etc. And there…
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Weekend Music Ok, let me explain why I'm posting this very gloomy song, which is hardly what one would expect for something referred to as "weekend music." It's mainly because the title, which is also the chorus, has been floating around in my head since I posted the dream of the young lady in the…
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Yes, I probably am. The other day I was reading this complaint by Terry Teachout about the arts programming on PBS, and I have to agree with him that documentaries on Pearl Jam and Women Who Rock are really not what we need PBS for. (And Andrea Boccelli with Celine Dione?!?!) But one thing in that list…
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To be called You Know What Else Makes Me Mad? To be used as an outlet for my considerable irritation at various inhabitants and phenomena of the contemporary world. Sort of a Mr. Hyde to this blog’s Dr. Jekyll. But I really don’t think it would be healthy for me. It certainly wasn’t for Dr.…
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More than sweet, really. It's profound. (By the way, if you haven't seen any video from the Occupy rallies, the odd pause-and-echo thing is supposed to be a way of addressing a crowd without amplification–speaker says a phrase, pauses, crowd repeats it, and so on. I guess her bullhorn doesn't carry far enough.) There's…
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This is encouraging. I started to say exciting, but I don't want to get too carried away. As I said in response to seeing this on Facebook (via Richard Aleman and Toby D'Anna), I've been afraid that distributism would never get beyond being the intellectual hobby of a small number of Catholics–a minority of a…
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Sunday Night Journal — October 17, 2011 The personal and the political The interplay of the personal and the political in the book and in Horowitz’s life is interestingly illustrated in this passage. In our second year [in Berkeley, ca. 1962], Elissa became pregnant. This was not exactly planned, but neither was it entirely an…
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Weekend Music Following on last week's Bert Jansch post, this modest little track is probably my favorite of Pentangle's work. I love the little electric guitar break. While looking for information on the song, I ran across a review which said that John Renbourn, the other guitarist in the group, is the singer. I…
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Oh, darn. But I figured it was too good to be true. Update: a better explanation, via Craig Burrell.
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I didn't notice that John Lennon's birthday was a few days ago (Oct. 9). He would have been 71 (!). I became aware of it only because I happened across this review of a new Lennon biography. I've always been puzzled by those people who idolized the Beatles and Lennon in particular. The author of this…
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