Something for Sunday Morning
"Each person has a specific divine vocation. Every life that is lived without
reference to the divine plan is wasted."
Francis Fernandez
Eric Scheske
Administrative Saturday Morning
I finally got a chance to clean up my link list on the right. Dead links, blogs
that haven't added fresh content in over six weeks, links not accessible without
passwords, blogs that were recently updated to say "This blog is now closed."
They're
The man who averted a nuclear holocaust
I guess this story came out last month
[http://maltastar.com/pages/msfullart.asp?an=15214]. I missed it. One of the
most amazing (and scary) things I've ever read.
Via
[http://dprice.blogspot.com/2007/10/commit-this-name-to-memory-stanislav.html].
Friday and Brews
My plans yesterday: Greektown Casino in Detroit with my brother, crash in
Greektown, get up at 6:00 a.m. and be in Kalamazoo by 9:00 a.m. Friday. My day
yesterday: Four Winds Casino [http://www.fourwindscasino.com/] in New Buffalo
with my Dad, drinking club for a
Horror Article
I don't have much today. Long story short, I had an excellent day and evening
planned today, but it fell through. I also didn't feel good yesterday and was
exhausted at the end of the day. The result, I felt existentially lousy (some
might call it
The Wednesday Eudemon
I missed this scary story last month: An 82-year-old Argentine woman who
attracted media attention last month when she married a 24-year-old man has
died
as a result of heart problems. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7056672.stm]
The article doesn't say what induced the
Tuesday Trifles
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as long as it's not beholden in
Philadelphia: Philadelphia is home to the least attractive people in the United
States, a survey of visitors and residents showed on Friday
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071022/od_nm/philadelphia_unattractive1_
Monday Miscellany
Don't live here: Dhaka, Bangladesh; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil; Shanghai and Tianjin in China; Alexandria and Cairo in Egypt; Mumbai
and
Kolkata in India; Jakarta, Indonesia; Tokyo and Osaka-Kobe in Japan; Lagos,
Nigeria; Karachi, Pakistan; Bangkok, Thailand, and New York and Los Angeles.
[http://news.
Something for Sunday Morning
"No one should be so active as not to seek the contemplation of God."
St. Augustine
Something for Saturday
I don't know if I'm proud or embarrassed, but the description ain't unfair,
though "one of the literati" is a stretch (ain't never read much of Melville or
Conrad or a host of other of them fundermental reads):
What Kind