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Eric Scheske

Monday

Monday Miscellany After reading The Leek last Tuesday, eldest son Alex told me that there is already a Catholic Onion out there: Eye of the Tiber [http://www.eyeofthetiber.com/]. It looks pretty good. About themselves: "We were the only Catholic news agency to report that Pope Francis had

Sunday

I had an enjoyable little evening with Marie, the two little kids, and the eldest daughter last night: Mass, brief showing at a friend's graduation party, bowling (with plenty of drinks), some arcade games, then a trip for fast food and home to watch an old episode of

On Hollywood

“In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.” Rita Rudner “Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.” Lionel Barrymore “It's a scientific fact. For every year a person lives in Hollywood, they lose

Friday

So I'm at a graduation party last Friday night. They had two drinks: Miller Lite on tap and the "Ami Cooler." I was a little bummed there was no vodka, but the host told me, "My grandfather had a bar in Ionia, Michigan. He would

Conan

We have a historic drought going on now in this state. Due to the drought, California Governor Jerry Brown said he has cut back on bathing. As a result, Californians have cut back on hanging out with Jerry Brown. A federal court has ruled that the U.S. Postal Service

Thursday

Apologetics 101 from Orestes Although Brownson was a collaborator with the radical Fanny Wright (and her partner, socialist Robert Owen), and had veered strongly toward agnosticism himself, he quickly found their anti-religion stance intellectually-clumsy. The radicals taught that religion/superstition (the two are synonymous for radicals) was coeval

Wednesday

Chesterton Short(s) The 18.5 (volume 18, fifth issue) of Gilbert [http://www.chesterton.org/membership/] arrived recently. It's pretty amazing that this little magazine keeps plugging along. When I was editing it, someone told me that the average life of such niche magazines is something like

Monday

Miscellaneous Rambling Whew, another long weekend out of the way; one step closer to death. Little league game Friday night, followed by graduation parties (straight from fields, change into decent clothes in the back of my van, to parties). Blessed hours of gardening Saturday morning, then slept off grogginess from

Sunday

Always dig Taki: "Truman Capote famously said that On The Road was typing, not writing, but old Jack Kerouac was Jane Austen compared to some of the novelists of today. Making it sound easy is the hardest thing in writing, and I grant you that today's modernists

Saturday

On Jenner You know how out of it I am? A little while ago (like in early 2014, maybe late 2013), I asked my wife a question about the Kardashians. I'd heard of the attention-mongering sisters and their hangers-on, and I knew one of them was