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I haven't been watching many movies for a while now. Last night I finally saw the second half of this, having watched the first half last weekend (it's over three hours long). It's not going to be my favorite Bergman, although like almost all Bergman it's worth seeing, and better than most films. This is…
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Happy Independence Day to Finland, and happy St. Nicholas Day to all. I'd like to think there's some significance to the fact that those are the same day.
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Via National Geographic. Some really spectacular pictures. I love stuff like this. And while I'm at it, and speaking of pictures, this week's Hearts of Space theme is austerity, and the gallery is really nice. The music is spectacular: a series of excerpts of music from northern and eastern Europe, particularly the Baltic area, from…
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Read the first letter on this page. It's really…well, I won't say miraculous, but the chances were very much against the happy ending. The person who stopped was as brave as he was kind. The "Bayway" referred to in the letter is the long bridge by which Interstate 10 crosses Mobile Bay. Traffic is often heavy…
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…to laugh when I saw this headline?
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I was about halfway through writing at 9 or so last night when I decided I really ought to check on some things at work, having managed to ignore them since last Wednesday. I found that the database software on my main system had locked up, and spent the rest of the evening, until way…
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I don't suppose anyone who is at all interested needs my encouragement to go see this, but if you're undecided: it's really good. My wife and two of our adult children went to see it last night, and we all liked it, including Clare, who grew up with the books and loved them. I really…
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Well, the Alabama-Auburn game, aka the Iron Bowl (because it used to be played in Birmingham, which was built on the iron and steel industry) is coming up tomorrow. For those who haven’t been around Auburn and Alabama fans, which I expect is almost everyone who reads this blog, this piece will give you a…
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The existence of language is one of the many phenomena—of which love and music are the two strongest—which suggest that human beings are very much more than collections of meat. —A.N. Wilson
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From the moment that man died on the cross, the word sacrifice became a huge word, a great word, and it revealed—as when the sun rises, like a sun that rises—that the whole life of every man is woven of sacrifices, is full of shudders of sacrifice, is, as it were, dominated by the need…
Light On Dark Water 