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Upstairs Downstairs 2 and Downton Abbey This is sort of a follow-up to that post a few weeks about Upstairs Downstairs. I don't think I mentioned in that one that the reason we were watching the original series was that we had seen the new one which first aired last year. I'd noticed the ads for it…
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Weekend Music You may have noticed that this sometimes-regular feature disappeared some weeks ago, I'm not sure exactly when. I hardly listened to any music at all, or opened a book, between Thanksgiving and Epiphany. After the latter, though, really feeling the lack of music, I began playing music in the car on my daily…
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My great-aunt Ann was a diehard Democrat who believed that in the realm of politics FDR was the Creator and JFK the Messiah. I don't think she lived to see the JFK myth put pretty thoroughly to rest (as much as it can ever be–the true believers seem to be pretty committed still). But she…
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I suspect that anyone who is at all on the rightward side of the political spectrum is feeling very much like this. (Who is "Reince Preibus"?!?)
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and how weird that there's a need for it.
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Once again I've had a very busy and stressful week, followed by a not-stressful but nevertheless busy weekend, with little time for anything apart from work and family-related doings. I brought this on myself to some extent by having signed up, back in late November, for a 20-hour course in the Java programming language, which…
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I haven't been online much for the past couple of days, but I wanted to mention this, which Rob G sent me a several days ago. As Rob noted, the review doesn't say much about–the reviewer presumably doesn't get–the real spiritual significance of the movie, but I think he's very good on the aesthetics and psychology.
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. —Leonard Cohen (seen on Facebook, posted by Image, I think)
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July 18, 2004: a review of The Innocence Mission’s Befriended. I removed some obsolete links and information about eMusic.com, which is still around and to which I still subscribe, though it’s changed a lot since 2004.
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You may have noticed the Google Doodle today, a rocky-looking thing which turns out to be a reference to Blessed Nicholas Steno, a Danish priest (actually named Steensen) who did some pioneering work in geology. I was not aware of him before today, so I appreciate Google having brought him to my attention. And I'm…
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