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Eric Scheske

January 1, 2013

Happy New Year, everyone. It's a holiday, so blogging today is at a minimum. I'm just going to plug my new favorite Twitter account: The Overly Manly Man [https://twitter.com/OverlyManlyMann]. It reminds me a lot of a book my father bought me while I

Monday

Bullets I watched Boondock Saints last night for the first time. Excellent movie. Highly recommended. * * * * * * * Farmers, you're irrelevant. Just ask the people in Boston and San Francisco. Midwesterners, you suck. Just ask the molders of public opinion in NYC and LA. Rural folk, you don't matter.

Something for Sunday Morning

"Luke's Gospel account of the Christmas event is full of activity”¦And yet, in the middle of the frenetic action, here is this woman wrapped in mystical silence”¦She demonstrates the necessity of a quiet place within ourselves at Christmastime–that place where we are most ourselves

Saturday

Miscellany I relaxed with the older kids last night and watched Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. I thought it was going to be a humorous, campy movie, but it wasn't. It was a true horror flick. The premise: The South is controlled in large measure by vampire plantation owners

Friday

A beer blogger recommended this beer as a good New Years Eve drink. New Years Eve drink? What makes this a NYE drink? The warming cloak? I mean, I understand Halloween beers (the pumpkin) and Christmas beers (the spices) and maybe even Thanksgiving beers (back to pumpkin), but a New

Thursday

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 file full

Wednesday

I hope everyone had a great Christmas. Not much this morning. Just this interesting list of 12 Must-See movies of 2012 [http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/12/24/must-see-flicks-top-12-movies-2012/] . I might also add The Hobbit, which I saw last Sunday, but it wasn't nearly as good as

Something for Christmas Morning

"He is born poor, and he teaches us that happiness is not to be found in an abundance of earthly goods. He comes into the world without any ostentation, encouraging us to be humble and not to depend on the applause of men." Francis Fernandez

Something for Sunday Morning

"Take time to be aware that in the very midst of our busy preparations for the celebration of Christ's birth in ancient Bethlehem, Christ is reborn in the Bethlehems of our homes and daily lives. Take time, slow down, be still, be awake to the Divine Mystery

Leno

"A Michigan lawyer has been arrested for manufacturing crystal meth in his office. I hope the fact that this guy's a lawyer doesn't send the message that somehow all meth dealers are sleaze balls."