Monday, January 22 2007, 2:06 pm
I finished Dylan's Chronicles: Volume 1 the other day. Thanks, Dmoose. (It was a Christmas present.)
I thought it was good. Some people accused the author of name-dropping, and there are something like 14 pages of glowing recommendations of others in the front...
But I still enjoyed it. It's worth a read. It's funny, considering Dylan's current stature, about how he looked up to various people, some of whom I at least had never heard of.
I thought it was good. Some people accused the author of name-dropping, and there are something like 14 pages of glowing recommendations of others in the front...
But I still enjoyed it. It's worth a read. It's funny, considering Dylan's current stature, about how he looked up to various people, some of whom I at least had never heard of.
categorized as literature
June 1, 2005, 5.02 pm
I haven't been doing a whole lot these last few days.
Staying at home, working from time to time, in little bursts - the odd phone call, tech support email, taking naps, reading... just generally taking it easy.
I've been reading quite a bit of Edward Abbey, and danger will robinson, I just ran across a website that *gasp* sells all his books. My bank account shudders.
Staying at home, working from time to time, in little bursts - the odd phone call, tech support email, taking naps, reading... just generally taking it easy.
I've been reading quite a bit of Edward Abbey, and danger will robinson, I just ran across a website that *gasp* sells all his books. My bank account shudders.
categorized as literature
March 21, 2005, 12.44 pm
Book Game
Here are the rules
1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 123
3. Find the fifth sentence
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog, along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it. Just grab what is closest!
Here are the rules
1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 123
3. Find the fifth sentence
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog, along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it. Just grab what is closest!
Here I come to see what is really necessary for my journey, and what is excess baggage. Grades, relationships, money - they are never really seen until they are looked at against the desert horizon. Here I can discern my false gods from him who is the source of all life.
Okay, I stole this from Nevermore.
The selection was taken from Your Word, O Lord: Meditations for College Students, written by our own Father Buckley.
The selection was taken from Your Word, O Lord: Meditations for College Students, written by our own Father Buckley.
categorized as literature
March 3, 2005, 6.27 pm
I got a bit of crumpled up Denver Post as packaging for one of the many packages I received last week. An article in the crumpled bit -- which is now another crumpled bit in my garbage can -- was about Alexander McCall Smith.
Have any of you, dear readers, read any of his works? All that bioethics work prejudices me against him, but he m-i-g-h-t come down on the r-i-g-h-t side of the fence for that, so who knows? And his writing m-a-y be good despite his political views. So?
Have any of you, dear readers, read any of his works? All that bioethics work prejudices me against him, but he m-i-g-h-t come down on the r-i-g-h-t side of the fence for that, so who knows? And his writing m-a-y be good despite his political views. So?
categorized as literature
December 6, 2004, 12.19 pm
I haven't read enough Robert A. Heinlein, though Starship Troopers is an old favorite (and it is nothing like the movie, d"£$ it!).
hat-tip: http://www.texasbestgrok.mu.nu/
categorized as literature
Commentary ::
December 10, 2004, 2.51 am
gracefultouch(a)sbcglobal.net
http://www.pilgrimoftheabsolute.com
i grok you. stranger in a strange land definately took me out there in highschool.
i hope you do come to chicago, what fun we will have!
not
December 10, 2004, 2.51 am
gracefultouch(a)sbcglobal.net
http://www.pilgrimoftheabsolute.com
i grok you. stranger in a strange land definately took me out there in highschool.
i hope you do come to chicago, what fun we will have!
not
March 23, 2005, 3.22 pm
warmmoth(a)hotmail.com
http://www.twaddlemountain.com
"But this is 1957, when it is our governments that would cheerfully declare, 'The State is us.' Which brings me to ANASTASIA, a most mediocre film which has for its theme an historical enigma, one of the stupidest and emptiest subjects in a category that never fails to fill the theaters.
Docile slave that he is, Anatole Litvak directed ANASTASIA with laziness, lack of imagination and bad taste that even his advanced age cannot excuse."
Ouch! From THE FILMS IN MY LIFE by Francois Truffaut.
JSOH
March 25, 2005, 11.56 pm
gracefultouch(a)sbcglobal.net
www.pilgrimoftheabsolute.com
i keep doing this everytime someone posts it and this time it seemed so fitting to the day that i thought i'd share:
Jesus accepted Peter's profession of faith, which acnowledged him to be the Messiah, by announcing the imminent Passion of the Son of Man. He unveiled the authentic content of his messianic kingship both in the transcendent identity of the Son of Man "who came down from heaven," and in his redemptive mission as the suffering Servant: "The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." Hence the true meaning of his kingship is revealed only when he is raised high on the cross."
catechism of the catholic church
not
March 30, 2005, 6.53 am