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Utterly Thought-Stoppingly Awesome.

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Watch this. Just watch it.

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A Reflection On Pleasant Punk Blasphemy

Monday, September 21st, 2009

As part of the process of getting ready for our impending move, I’ve been engaged in a process of ripping all my audio CDs that hadn’t previously been ripped. This keeps leading to my having that “Oh, I haven’t though about you in a while” experience.
I had that recently with Crass.

Since I was single-digits old [...]

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Cain’s wife: a game the whole family can play

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

As a child–I think around 8 or so–I once got booted out of Sunday school for “disrupting the class” with a series of “outspoken incidents”. What actually happened, at least as I remember it now, was that I was politely but firmly asking the teacher a number of questions she found inconvenient about the material [...]

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Marco Polo, Nativity, Divine Fire, and blindspots in the mind

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

So I spent some time today–when I probably should have been doing something else–reading some of the Travels Of Marco Polo. Oddly, I don’t have a print copy of this in my library–an omission I shall have to correct at some point–but that wasn’t a problem since Project Gutenberg has a decent translation.
I wasn’t reading [...]

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Excuses, Excuses

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

And that really says all that needs to be said on the subject without risk of boring you with my job-talk, except perhaps to say that this week isn’t looking likely to be any better.. Bless the bus slogan generator for encouraging brevity in cliched posts.
Before I leave though, I can’t resist one more:

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It doesn’t matter if it’s good, it’s still genius.

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

So, we know that I like Revelations, especially some of the bits at the end, and especially including God’s no-modifications open license.
We also know that I like Hal Duncan, and especially when he’s being his most over-the-top flagrantly intellectual.
You might not know that I have a sentimental affection for historical surrealists and Burroughs, and thus, [...]

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He’s Out To Get Me

Friday, November 30th, 2007

And in recent Catholic Church news, possibly relevant to the ongoing discussion between my friend Biff and I in another post’s comments, we have the current Pope lashing out at… atheists:
Pope Benedict, in a new encyclical released on Friday, said atheism was responsible for some of the “greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice” [...]

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