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It was only fairly recently that I became aware of the term “outrage porn,” but I just learned from Wikipedia that it’s been around since 2009, when a New York Times writer said: It sometimes seems as if most of the news consists of outrage porn, selected specifically to pander to our impulses to judge
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I read the other day that Chuck Jackson had died. I recognized the name immediately, though I may not have encountered it since 1962, when his recording of "Any Day Now" was on the charts. I would have been thirteen or fourteen, and was prone to bouts of infatuation which were often called then, and
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I have now, as I mentioned a week or two ago that I was planning to do, seen Dune, the recent one directed by Denis Villeneuve. I enjoyed it, enough that when someone suggested watching it again I was quite willing. It's very impressive visually, and I don't mean by that to suggest mere spectacle, though
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I’ve been meaning to mention this novel, and putting it off because I felt that it deserved a fuller treatment than I had time to give it. But today I’m giving up. I have a busy few days coming up, and rather than put it off again I’m just going to say a little and
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If you don't know that Big Star is a band, you probably don't care. If you do know, you probably have your own opinions, and might or might not be interested in hearing mine. But what's the point of having a blog if you don't opine on what interests you? Big Star, by the way,
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Somehow Animal Farm escaped from the boxes where most of my books still reside, and I picked it up and started reading it on a whim. I had read it in high school and not since. I don't recall having a very strong opinion or impression of it, beyond the obvious satirical-polemical intent. And it's
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Dixon, as you will have guessed, is Franklin W. Dixon, the author's name on the cover of the Hardy Boys books. He did not actually exist, at least not as the author of those books, which were a group effort, and not always the same group. Usually there was at minimum an outline written by
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This is another trip into the only partially explored territory of music I bought in MP3 format when it was very inexpensive at eMusic.com, and I could experiment in a way that I never could have before. His Name Is Alive: Livonia To some of us, the phrase "4AD in the 1980s" suggests magic. 4AD, in
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The collection of writings by Alfred Delp, S.J. which I mentioned a couple of weeks ago has a long introduction by Thomas Merton. I'm not a Merton enthusiast, having found what I've read of his work (not all that much) a somewhat mixed bag, but this essay, dated October 1962, is excellent. Fr. Delp reminds
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I was working on a post earlier today but didn’t have time to finish it, and may not tomorrow, so, briefly: A remark from a priest seen on Facebook on Thursday: “I thought I was having an epiphany this morning but it was transferred to Sunday.” This evening my wife and I were shamefully late
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