Request: I'm looking for manly blogs. What do I mean by "manly"? Well, that's hard to say, but the following work: blogs that talk about being a husband and father, blogs that exude Tarzan-like manliness, blogs by men that talk about responsibility, blogs by men that talk about traditionally manly things like sports and drinking. The bloggers would ideally be men over the age of 25, but I'll go as low as 21. The bloggers don't have to be Catholics, but since I will be writing for a Catholic audience, Papists are preferred. Email on left: ejscheske@yahoo.com.
Nice evening yesterday. I'm not ready to experiment with beer yet, so I declined the option of going to the drinking club last night and instead hung out at home, helped my daughter load songs onto her iPod, read, then watched The Ghost and the Darkness with my three oldest children, while the little ones watched cartoon movies.
I highly recommend the movie. A friend loaned the tape to me, but said he wouldn't let a child under age 10 watch it. That's about right, but it's not nearly as gory as some reviewers said nor as scary. Intense, yes, but not overly scary. No nudity, no suggestive language or images, less swearing than you hear on the networks after 9:00. Its "R" rating is possibly the least-justified "R" ever. The movie is based on a true story.
I was surprised that I'd never heard of the movie, but then I saw it was made in 1996. I went through a 10+-year period (1988 to about 1999) when I pretty much turned off the entire pop culture. My reasons were a combination of impecuniousness, attending law school, interest in other things (mostly reading thick books, like works by Voegelin, Gilson, and classic works of philosophy), an immature disdain for pop culture, and a desire to spend my free time with beer. I don't regret those 10+ years by any means, but it's good to have that minefield of cheap movies today, even if at times I feel like I'm catching up with everyone else when it comes to things pop.
Can anyone tell me why the Post Office spends money on advertising? If they need to attract customers, maybe we don't need their services, or we can get by with less manpower. The Post Office was introduced to fill a void that the private sector wasn't filling. If the private sector is now filling it, the Post Office should shrink and eventually go away. Unfortunately, I suspect its workers won't go away without a fight, nor do I blame them. It's their livelihood. But a humane downsizing of a federal institution would be an edifying thing to see.
That's it for now. Three of the seven are in my office for our weekly "Slim Jim Party" (music and Slim Jims for everyone; the party is designed to let my wife sleep in).
