“Hey, Those Guys Are Pretty Good.”
“A Berlin opera house is encouraging audience members to smoke cannabis joints during its latest production.” You know, in case, like, the show isn’t very good. About the title …
Month: July 2006
The Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame
I went Saturday. It was very cool. A few notes, in no particular order: Remember that the subject matter is cool, but it’s still a museum. If you don’t …
Something for Sunday Morning
When a man is always occupied with the cravings of desire and ambition, and is eagerly striving to satisfy them, all his thoughts must be mortal, and, as far …
The Weekend Eudemon
The House that Rock Built. The Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. That’s my destination this morning. My wife is the godmother of a newborn little girl. The family …
Brews You Can Use II
Imported beers are gaining market share in the Midwest, the heartland of American brewing. Link. The homeland brewers are nervous. Maybe if they weren’t cranking out the likes of …
Brews You Can Use
The First Baptist Church of Hampton Falls, NH, has a beer bottle on top of the steeple. According to the locals: A brewery owner donated $50,000 to build the …
Of Course It’s Boring
Interesting piece by Helen Kirwan-Taylor, a mother/writer who says her children bore her. The later article makes a few decent points (I, too, don’t know why “good” parents have …
Gay Clinton
I’m not an Ann Coulter fan. I don’t dislike her, but I don’t watch her on TV, read her articles or books, or follow her career moves. She’s just …
Light Day
Sorry for the light blogging. I’ve been busy at the office, trying to keep my baby in furs.
The Wednesday Eudemon
A packed midweek. It started last night, when I took three of my older kids to Pirates of the Caribbean 2. It wasn’t good. The plot didn’t hold together …
God, Fun, and Money
Blasphemy would be no fun, if there was no God. Chesterton said something to that effect, and there’s a lot of fun and God going around today, not to …
The Theocrats Don’t Cometh
Ross Douthat of The Atlantic Monthly reviews four books by hysterical authors who think America is becoming a theocracy. It’s hopeless to argue with people who actually believe theocracy …