Eric Scheske

That's me, standing with Chuck Berry on Delmar Boulevard in Clayton, Missouri. [http://www.claytonmo.gov/] Clayton is one of St. Louis' most famous suburbs (after Ferguson, of course) and is so much a part of St. Louis, our tour bus went there, Delmar Boulevard is listed

> Once upon a time, Tolkien nixed the Beatles' proposal to star in LOTR (with Lennon as Gollum). http://t.co/rR6f6S9pHy pic.twitter.com/VJ6nKh4clb [http://t.co/VJ6nKh4clb] > — First Things (@firstthingsmag) April 12, 2015 [https://twitter.com/firstthingsmag/status/587398433780162560]

I saw this book on display in St. Louis. I dang near bought it, but the price tag ($22) held me back: > Merton and Waugh: A Monk, A Crusty Old Man, and The Seven Storey Mountain http://t.co/KtPcDZSGAU > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) April 11, 2015 [https:

I just returned from a short vacation to St. Louis. I hope to blog/ramble on about it Monday morning. For now, just this pic of a mosaic from its beautiful Cathedral.

BYCU Kontent from the Kindle Summer is coming, and with it comes gin and tonics. When I first abandoned beer, I turned to gin, but it occasionally gave me headaches, so I switched to vodka, which I've really come to enjoy. After reading this passage from The Drunken

* John McCain addressed critics who believe he will be too old to run for a sixth term in the Senate, saying that he's still healthy and ready to go. Then people around McCain said, “Why is he talking to that mannequin?”

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a

Bullets Have you heard Michigan's slogan? "Pure Michigan." It's never struck me as anything special, but I guess it's been so successful that other states are trying to come up with their own "Pure Michigan" type slogan. Branding Ohio [http:

“When the disciples saw the risen Christ, they beheld “him as a reality in the world, though no longer of it, respecting the order of the world, but Lord of its laws. To behold such reality was different and more than to see a tree or watch a man step

Drudge's front page this morning: 'BLOOD MOON' RISES Links to [http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/04/02/lunar-eclipse-blood-moon/70831278/]