• Three Favorite Prayers

    I don't believe in memes, in the sense that the term was meant when it was invented, so I'm not going to call this a meme. Theme is a perfectly good word for it, a conversational topic passed around in a sort of game, and Pentimento tagged me with this one: what are your three favorite prayers? 1)…

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  • and other helpful advice from people who know what they want to say but can't put it into words–English words, that is. (Hat tip to my friend Robert.)

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  • I love this instruction, which appears in a lot of commercial email: "Can't view this email? Click here!"

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  • Liberal Bigotry

    Sunday Night Journal — August 22, 2010 I’ve been thinking about writing this piece for some months now, and putting it off because I really don’t want to do it. I’d rather write about something else. I’d rather think about something else. But the phenomenon keeps forcing itself on my attention. I tend to avoid…

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  • Weekend Music Another band centered around a married couple, and another band of whom I've heard great things, but haven't heard all that much: a friend made me a copy of The Trumpet Child, and I liked the musicianship but wasn't carried away by the material. This song just happened to be one of the…

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  • I've been meaning to comment on this CNN story about the continued surprising life of the vinyl LP, though I'm not sure many people who read this blog are interested. It is an interesting phenomenon. I still have hundreds of LPs and still listen to them, though not that often, and currently not at all: my turntable…

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  • I’m sitting on our screened porch watching it and listening to it.

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  • This is funny. 

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  • Low: Sunflower

    Weekend Music Low is a band I’ve heard many good things about and have been meaning to investigate. It’s centered on the husband-wife team of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker. This is a lovely song, though beyond impressions I’m not sure what it’s about. Sparhawk and Parker are reportedly practicing Mormons. Much more info here.

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  • Sympathetic words (more sympathetic than mine) for Anne Rice, from Kathryn Jean Lopez.

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