November 2013
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As I've often lamented, the little town where I live has gotten all uppity and is overrun with rich people, many of whom are artsy, which is sometimes almost as bad as uppity. But there are benefits, too, and one of them is that there is now a Fairhope Film Festival. It ran Friday through…
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I've had these two movies on DVR for quite a while now, recorded from Turner Classic Movies. I'm sure it's been over a year, and it may be two, because I think I recorded them not long after we subscribed to AT&T's Uverse service for Internet and TV. (The TV part is soon going to…
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Weekend Music Demonstrating the folly of trying to associate music very closely with specific images and narratives, the heavily reverbed guitar sound has somehow become associated with the desert as well as with the ocean. You hear it a lot in movie sound tracks and commercials, though frequently it's a dobro or other slide guitar…
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Well, here's a major argument-starter. Peter Leithart in First Things argues that Protestantism is over, that Protestants should stop calling themselves Protestants and call themselves "Reformational catholics" instead. I sympathize, and of course speaking as a Catholic I think it's a step in the right direction, but: Like a Protestant, a Reformational catholic rejects papal…
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I mean, really: College football coaches trademarking their names? (Warning: that link goes to one of those annoying pages that starts a video automatically. But there's a print story there.)
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The un-ecumenical days, when books like this were published: The Lenten Lectures of Rev. Thomas Maguire; delivered in Dublin in 1842, in answer to the Thirty-nine articles of the Church of England Lecture V is: The Absurdities, Contradictions and Blasphemies of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Parliamentarian Rule of Faith of the Episcopalian Protestants Yesterday…
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That’s the title of this piece by Charles Cooke at National Review Online. While I sympathize with at least some of the Tea Party’s complaints and proposals, I also have my disagreements with it, and in general find its rhetoric simplistic if not entirely wrong. I don’t believe, for instance, that excessive taxation is, in…
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Weekend Music I'm not sure exactly when it started, but when I noticed it sometime in the mid-1990s or so there was a surf guitar revival going on. It started out as a straightforward imitation of the old stuff, with a bit of irony thrown in, as in that clip by The Metalunas that I…
Light On Dark Water 