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
Eric Scheske
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
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
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&
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
Samuel
Today's first reading establishes Samuel as the first libertarian in the
Occident.
-- Mobile post
Leno
"They're considering legislation to make it easier for same-sex couples who get
married in the nation's capital to get divorced. Lawmakers say gay couples
should be awarded the same rights as a Kardashian."
-- Mobile post
Friday
Poetry reading is a contemplative art. It might be the most intense
contemplative art and, among secular pursuits, the most sublime. That's probably
why I'm no good at it.
If you want to understand poetry, you must get Understanding Poetry. I've read a
handful