October 2015
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I can't tell you how many times I had similar feelings when I was raising children. Not so much about the nightly news and similar things, which we never watched, but about the news/entertainment industry in general.
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We (my wife and I) finished watching the second series of Broadchurch a couple of weeks ago. I liked it almost as much as the first one. The plot was more diffuse, taking up where the first series left off, with the trial of the murderer arrested in that case, and also re-activating the unrelated and unsolved…
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Janet is kicking off the 52 Saints series at her blog. See this post and sign up!
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There are a number of YouTube versions of this song, most of them featuring images of the things the song talks about. But for me the lyrics are quite enough.
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It is a very windy document. It would have been much better at half the length. It's repetive, and consciously so. From the opening chapter: Although each chapter will have its own subject and specific approach, it will also take up and re-examine important questions previously dealt with…. These questions will not be dealt with once…
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I don’t know anything about Canadian politics or the real significance of the newly-elected premier. But this piece by David Warren says some insightful things that are as applicable to our political culture as to our neighbor’s. Perhaps I should explain what I mean by “drivel.” I could write, “lies,” but these are only possible…
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More Chris Rea, who is very under-rated. I admit I don't really understand what this song is about. The artwork shown in this video is relevant in part because the album cover has one of the same artist's pictures, and also because in the full version of the title song there is a sort of…
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When Craig Burrell wrote about Thomas Mann for Week 32 of the 52 Authors series, I decided that the next fiction I read would be Doctor Faustus. I had been irrationally prejudiced against Mann, somehow imagining his books to be very dull novels of not very interesting ideas. But Craig made him, and especially this book,…
Light On Dark Water 