February 2019
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I have a number of CDs full of MP3 music, much of which, as I've mentioned before, I haven't really listened to. One of these was playing in my car a couple of weekends ago when I was on my way home from hearing a guitarist named Michael Chapdelaine, of whom more in a moment.…
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I admit that I approached this film in more or less the same way I would approach reading The Faerie Queen: more (much more) interested in having seen it than in seeing it. There are classics which I think I should read (or hear or view) for their historical significance, but don't really expect to enjoy.…
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It's on Netflix now, but DVD-only. There are only six episodes, and they're only a half-hour or so long, and I've watched the first four (i.e. the first DVD). I just did a search to make sure I was right about the number of episodes, and saw a sad headline: "Why Detectorists series 3 will…
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Someone recommended this podcast to me, and I in turn recommend it to you. The topic is Hope: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope. To the ancient Greeks, hope was closer to self-deception, one of the evils left in Pandora's box or jar, in Hesiod's story. In Christian tradition, hope became one…
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I logged in to Facebook and there was a link to a YouTube video from a band I "liked" (and like), Laki Mera. So I thought I'd listen to the song. It was good. Then I noticed on the YouTube sidebar a video called "Bothering Bald-faced hornets with an Action Drone AD-1". Why did YouTube…
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Or: "Driving Through The Caution Lights." In 1932 my grandfather was the judge in a case where the lynching of the defendants was a very real possibility. This is what he said to the court: Now, gentlemen, this is for the audience, and I want it to be known that these prisoners are under the…
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I don't know how many readers of this blog are interested in this. I only know for certain that one person is, and that's Rob G, who sent me the link to Pitchfork magazine's "The 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time." But it's one of the enjoyable things about blogging that you can write…
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I'm not going to go on about this, but I couldn't resist passing on this comment from Neo(neocon): The entire Green New Deal document is worth reading, by the way, for its almost-unhinged quality of unbridled enthusiasm, wild optimism, and complete lack of consideration of any physical and financial realities. If you think Trump's wall…
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Why is it so dispiriting? For that matter, why are vegetables in general so dispiriting? I guess there's a lesson in there somewhere about Things That Are Good For Us.
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I'm not on Twitter, but my wife is, and yesterday morning she showed me a very interesting thread from a D.C. priest, Fr. Matt Fish. Here's the first item (I'm sorry, I just can't bring myself to use the word "tweet" except in a discussion of bird songs.) Said it before, and I'll say it…
Light On Dark Water 