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What's more depressing than the drunks and joyless libertines who seem to comprise a good percentage of today's college students? What's more heartening than a bright, lively bunch of Catholic students challenging the conventional morbid hedonism? The Parousians are such a group at LSU, doing good things. Here's one of them taking on Margaret Sanger…
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It's tough when you decide the time has come to get seriously acquainted with Wagner's Ring and you start getting the DVDs from NetFlix (because the VHS versions in your local library are damaged), and the whole thing takes a nose dive halfway through because you can't stop noticing that Siegfried looks and acts an…
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Frank Zappa: Hot Rats In contrast to last week’s album, this was a pleasant surprise. I must say right off that I had never taken very seriously Zappa’s ambition to be taken very seriously as a musician. Maybe “ambition” is the wrong word, since the general air of dadaist clownishness with which he invested his…
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Read all about it. Of course this is no surprise, even if Dreher's apparent enemy had not been snooping around trying to prove it. A number of Catholics seem outraged by his having kept it a secret for some months. I don't see it that way, and frankly I see this as another lesson in…
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I refer, of course, to Dawn Eden's uncanny ability to write headlines. They're like witty little poems in five or ten words. Like this one. Anyone who reads her blog would guess at once that she's the author of most of the headlines for Touchstone , e.g. the ones you can see right now on…
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NEU!: NEU! What a disappointment. I’d been wanting for a while to hear this group. They’re often mentioned as one of the stars of the ‘70s German “krautrock” style, and NEU! was an offshoot of one of those bands, Kraftwerk, which I like quite a bit. And another band at least loosely classified as krautrock,…
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Observable here. And over here, not-Christian. I don't know, maybe she deserves some kind of credit for uniting Hannity and Colmes. I do wonder what this Westboro cult is really worshipping, though. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Seems I was not the only one listening rather closely to Sunday's gospel. Disputations looks at another key implication of the passage. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Gentle Giant: In a Glass House More ‘70s progressive rock. I remember hearing this group’s name back then, but not their music. I doubt I would ever have listened to them but for the respected poster on the eMusic message board who goes by the handle of Music Lover and who calmly and persistently insisted…
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I'm double-posting this to the Caelum et Terra blog, not being sure whether everybody who reads one and might be interested in this also reads the other. Good words from the signoff: As we have written previously, we believe that to suffer one’s place and one’s people in the particularity of its and their needs…
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