Sign in Subscribe

Eric Scheske

Guns and Stuff

Gasoline-Powered Turtleneck Sweater? Yesterday I received one of the oddest catalogues I've ever seen: Hammacher Schlemmer: Offering the Best, the Only and the Unexpected for 161 years [http://www.hammacher.com/]. The stuff is neat, but pricey. They offer a contraption that allows you to burn CDs

Monday Miscellany

Twitter Monday Some weekends get away. That was mine. Between two evening baseball games, a high school graduation, and a wicked hangover Saturday morning (brought on by a mere two beers--is there no justice?), I entered Sunday evening with nothing in mind for Monday's post. I scoured

Something for Sunday Morning

"Great opportunities to serve God seldom arise, but little ones are frequent." St. Francis de Sales

BYCU

Drunk in New York Seinfeld was one of the most NYC-centered sitcoms of all time. Has any other comedy show revolved so heavily around neighborhood life and references to everyday NY things as Seinfeld? If so, I can't think of them. I loved that show, but one

Marxism and Other Fairy Tales

Like W.C. Fields Criticizing a Drunk Wow, the great Russian bear roars at the United States, but not for its capitalism: for its Marxism [http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-american_capitalism-0]. > It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American

Up and FTN

Get Up and Go I received an email, saying that Nick Milne (blogger at The Daily Kraken [http://nickmilne.wordpress.com/] and one of the brightest lights of young Catholicism north of the St. Lawrence) greatly enjoyed Up [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810014785/info]. My family had our first

The New Freak Show?

Bulk Up for that SAT, Bobby Yesterday, I wrote (a too lengthy post) about Sam Anderson's "The Benefits of Distraction." This was one of the more interesting passages from the article [http://nymag.com/news/features/56793/index4.html], but I couldn't fit it

ADD, Buddhist Monks, and Misleading Titles

“In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.” Simone Weil A Distracted World The May 25th issue of New York Magazine featured this cover story by Sam Anderson: The Attention Crisis--And Why Distraction May Actually Be Good For You

Something for Sunday Morning

"If we are not to be scorched and made unfruitful, we need the dew of God. Since we have our accuser, we need an Advocate as well." St. Irenaeus

Brews You Can Use

The Modern Drunkard I was having a heck of a time finding bloggable drinking material last night. And then I stumbled across an old friend: Modern Drunkard Magazine [http://moderndrunkardmagazine.com/]. Its editor, Frank Kelly Rich, would appear to be a genuine drunk [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002138215_