Posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Why should there only be one day dedicated to artistic embarrassment? I’ve decided to embarrass myself daily until the Novel That Will Not End is done. I just put the beginning of the new direction in section 9.1 at The Secret Academy. From here on out (oh, may it be so!), I’ll post daily whatever [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2006 | No Comments »
Just put up another installment at The Books. This particular story is interesting, but what it has to do with religion, I still don’t know. Sometimes I think religious Jews and Christians who haven’t read the Bible are making the right choice. But there are bits in the book to shut up the worst of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2006 | 12 Comments »
Thinking more about my previous post, I was struck with how well “patriotism” substitutes for “religion” in Weinberg’s quote. Which makes sense; patriotism is religion. Anyone who considers a flag a symbol that deserves reverence is a devout worshipper of a god in the pantheon of nations.
If the Crusades were wars of religion, the west [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I’m always amused by quotes that sound profound until you realize they make as much sense if you change a word or two. Today’s example:
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” Steven Weinberg
It’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2006 | 3 Comments »
I just got a question about the meaning of Knickerbocker Line. The acronym for my honest response would be FIIK, or “Darned if I know.” But I’m a pretentious git who rarely lets ignorance stop him—this is the internets, after all—so I did a few minutes of googling and guessing and pestering Emma while [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2006 | 13 Comments »
Because there isn’t enough bad prose on the internets. Thank you, matociquala.
Actually, I think it’s a fun idea. But since enough of my bad prose is in print, I really don’t feel the need to prove that I’ve written things that were worse.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2006 | 5 Comments »
Ride and smile
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Gender in the Marshes
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Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2006 | 13 Comments »
In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell. It’s short and brilliant.
Then visit Chris McLaren’s commentary. I posted a rather long and burbly comment there.
I want to start the Leisure Party now. Or maybe the Idle Society nonprofit group.
I also want to do a condensed translation of Russell’s essay called “Slacker Fu is Mighty.”
And write a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2006 | No Comments »
Emma says if she ever meets Quentin Tarrantino, she’s going to hit him. There’s a great two-hour Tarrantino film buried in Kill Bill 1 & 2. We loved the ending. We loved what should’ve been the opening scene, the pregnancy test.
Will-Bob sez, “See #2. Everything you need is there. If you love it, see #1.”
If [...]
