Just a Few Things
Hey, it's the holiday season. Heck, it's Black Friday. If you're going to
Amazon, please go through the link on this blog. I get a kickback. It really
adds up. Last year, I was able to use my credits to buy four DVDs of
Eric Scheske
A Fine Essay
My favorite essayist, Joseph Epstein, a man whose books line my library and
whose style I study (painfully realizing that my simple lack of comparable
erudition makes me unable to emulate him) has written a good essay about
Thanksgiving [http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110010891]. It's not
Happy Thanksgiving
What a good year it's been. Plenty to be thankful for, little to be upset about.
Here's the plate of quotes I like to present every year on this day:
“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross
people.” Samuel
Brews You Can Use: Special Edition
They're [http://centerstage.net/bars/articles/thanksgiving-bars-and-clubs.html]
beginning to call it "Black Wednesday
[http://www.onmilwaukee.com/bars/articles/blackwed.html]," the biggest drinking
night of the year, Thanksgiving Eve. The kids are home from college, the adults
have four days off work.
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Increased Traffic
My traffic almost doubled the last two days, but I can't figure out why: no new
incoming links, the com boxes are slow, no email from someone saying he saw my
blog linked at rosieodonnel.com. If you know why my traffic has jumped (besides
the obvious: my
Monday Miscellany
It's been a brutal period at the office: worked until 8:00 Friday night, worked
a few hours Saturday morning, brought work home with me, worked 90 minutes
Sunday morning (a formerly-strict prohibition due to my desire to keep the
Sabbath holy) and thirty minutes Sunday afternoon. On
Something for Sunday Morning
"Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no
greater danger than not fearing danger. When a person puts himself in an
occasion of sin, saying, "I shall not fall," it is almost an infallible sign
that he will fall, and with
Some Saturday Stuff
One of the more intriguing new blogs I've seen: Old World Swine
[http://timothyjones.typepad.com/old_world_swine/] by artist Timothy Jones,
whose interests include Catholic faith, fine art, hiking, camping, brewing,
bread and cheese, the usual dead British suspects (Chesterton, Belloc, Tolkien,
Lewis), old movies, and
Voicemail Etiquette and Brews You Can Use
I cracked open a Leinenkugels Sunset Wheat Thursday night as I prepared this
morning's Brews You Can Use. I don't think I've had it before. Oh mahon! Good
stuff. Highly recommended (though it might be out of season by now).
It's been
Pullman and Other Items from The Atlantic
The December issue of The Atlantic Monthly has a feature piece about The Golden
Compass [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200712/religious-movies]. Summary:
Pullman's books are rabidly anti-Christian (the dark and murderous institution
that pursues the protagonist is "the Magisterium"--subtle stuff), but Hollywood
bent