October 2011
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I had been wanting for some time to get a good picture of these two remnants of dead trees. I had tried a few times, but there was always something wrong. Either the light was on them, which was what I wanted, because there was nice color and texture on the trunks, but they were…
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Sunday Night Journal — October 9, 2011 Let me say right off that this is a much better book than I expected, and perhaps better than you might expect if you’re familiar with David Horowitz’s political work. He’s a former left-wing polemicist/agitator turned right-wing polemicist/agitator, and in neither of those roles, where the principal objective…
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Crisis magazine (formerly Inside Catholic, formerly Crisis) is back, as of late September, after a roughly 8-week suspension. You remember I was wondering about this a while back. It was more interesting when it had the blogs. I see an interesting-looking review by Eve Tushnet of a recent movie version of Brighton Rock. Haven't read it yet.
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Dumps universally derided "Qwikster" plan. Personally, I don't mind some not-too-excessive rate increase, if the selection remains as good as it is. I'm a little worried about that. There are a couple of movies that I thought were in my dvd queue, but are now in the "saved" list, meaning they're currently unavailable. I hope that…
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I'm completely disgusted by the difference between the way the Occupy Wall Street protests have been treated by the media and the way the Tea Party was and is treated. If the furrowed-brow worriers about the future of journalism want to know why Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, et.al. came into existence, they need look no…
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Touchstone's current issue marks its 25th anniversary, and it is a very excellent issue. I've been a fan of its "ecumenical orthodoxy" since I discovered the magazine a dozen or so years ago (if my memory is at all reliable). I've been convinced for a long time that the differences among the three great communities…
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Weekend Music Call this a tribute and memorial to Bert Jansch, who died of cancer on Wednesday. I first encountered his name in connection with Donovan, having read somewhere that Donovan's songs "Bert's Blues" and "House of Jansch" were references to a mysterious guitar genius named Bert Jansch. I didn't hear him until a couple…
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I'm not even that big a fan of Apple and its products, although I once was. But there's no denying the impact of Steve Jobs and the company he co-founded on the world we live in. In the video below, the Macintosh looks pretty quaint, but it really was a big deal at the time.…
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I must say I'm more amused than anything else by the protests. This list of demands posted on the forum of what seems to be a semi-official site is very funny, at least until you consider that the person who composed it is quite serious. It reminds me of the most ludicrous political statements of the…
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Grainy because it was taken with my phone, but it was one of those images that I wanted to capture even if inadequately. I tried cropping the palm tree out of the upper right corner but that took away too much of the sky. This is St. Joseph's at Spring Hill College, by the way.
Light On Dark Water 