Tuesday
I bought a greenhouse
[http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/compact-walk-in-greenhouse.aspx?a=733338]
. It's just a little thing: 57"w x 29"d x 77"h. It's an exaggeration to call it
a "house," since it's really a
Eric Scheske
Monday
Like Waiting for Godot?
If there is any literary merit to The Adventures of Beer Man, it came from my
close study of Flannery O'Connor's Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose. It's a
great book for the fiction writer. I would lend you my copy,
Something for Sunday Morning
The Present Moment is the temporal position of Just Looking.
Friday
BYCU
This is a nice picture. It's by the drinker's artist, Douglas Crockwell, and
entitled "A Winter Evening at Home." I won't be spending this evening at my
house, but instead will be frequenting a downtown bar to listen to two friends
Thursday
Drinking Corner
This Drinking Corner is a two-fer: First, I might have found the most dedicated
beer blogger in America and, if not America, then at least in Ohio. He runs the
Ohio Beer Blog [http://beer.ohio.com/]. It's updated frequently with good
content.
While checking it
Wednesday
GKC and Crisis
One of the best Catholic pieces of the new year: G.K. Chesterton and the Art of
Living Well in a Time of Crisis
[http://www.thegregorian.org/blog/g.k.-chesterton-and-the-art-of-living-well-in-a-time-of-crisis]
. It's by a recent Catholic convert, and we all know that converts are
Tuesday
If you're from Michigan, you remember the Silverdome. It housed the Detroit
Lions for 30 years, was the chosen venue for many major rock bands, and even
hosted the Super Bowl. It was the largest NFL stadium for nearly 20 years and is
still, I believe, the largest
Monday: From the Notebooks
Hui-Neng wrote that, once everyone recognized the beautiful as beautiful,
ugliness arose.
It's a clever thought. In order to understand the paradox, you must focus on "as
beautiful." Hui-Neng isn't saying there isn't beauty. He is saying that we
shouldn't
Something for Sunday Morning
"Everything done for the sake of love acquires greatness and beauty." Escriva
Saturday
Voltaire Rebuttal, Episode 1,287,211
Gawsh. It's rare that a person runs across such a smug, self-regarding piece of
tripe like the "Why I Hate Religion but Love Jesus" YouTube video that caught
fire across cyberspace this week. It's adolescent smarm masquerading as