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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

The Weekend Eudemon

Outdoor reading, Knights of Columbus fish fry, drinking club yesterday. Wife and kids gone for the weekend, Final Four games, and more outdoor reading today. It's a good weekend. Call me a nerd, but I was so excited about my free day that I woke up at 3:

The New Computer Eudemon

I bought my first new computer in over three years. The Tech Guy installed it yesterday. It's pretty nice: 19" flat screen monitor, soft-touch keyboard, Windows Vista, most-current versions of all the standard software. I think I'm one of the first persons in

Friday

Interesting post over at Ignatius Insight [http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2007/03/von_balthasar_a.html] about the attempts of one man to bring new age-type practices under the roof of the Catholic Church. Excerpt: > Born in 1900 in Russia, Valentin Tomberg was for many years an

Sexualizing Girls

It's not a good thing. Article at The Register [http://ncregister.com/site/article/2151] (subscription might be required). Excerpt: > The American Psychological Association's report concluded that sexualization was damaging to all women, but particularly to younger girls who are still forming a sense of

The Quick-Hitting Eudemon

Significant (Nestorian) Christian presence in China by 700 AD? Interesting stuff in the current issue of Touchstone [http://touchstonemag.com:80/archives/article.php?id=20-03-030-f]. Hats off to these renegades: Just as speakeasies arose in the 1920s, smoke-easies are beginning to crop up in this

Riding the Hell Express

Man steals statue of Virgin Mary from cemetery, paints it to look like a clown, and poses with it for Myspace page [http://wcco.com/local/local_story_085221321.html]. Stories like these always remind me of Eddie Murphy's routine about Mehmet Ali Agca riding the Hell Express:

The Wednesday Eudemon

Abbreviated blogging today. My computer has been pulled, awaiting a replacement. I have computer access, but it's not as efficient as my regular computer. The new issue of Books & Culture arrived. The cover story: Mt. Athos [http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2007/002/4.16.html]. Very

I Must Be in the Back Row!

The Greeks knew acoustics, too [http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070319/full/070319-16.html]. Pretty wild. Courtesy of LewRockwell [http://www.lewrockwell.com/]. Excerpt: > Its acoustics are extraordinary: a performer standing on the open-air stage can be heard in the back rows almost 60 metres away.

Architecture to Toads

Susan Sontag once described a polymath as someone who is interested in everything and nothing else. I'm not a polymath, but I'm interested in all sorts of things. Occasionally, I even take an interest in art and architecture, so I found this opinion piece [http://www.

Monday Blogging

I'm looking for hip Catholic blogs. What do I mean by hip? Hard to say, but here are a few catch words: beatniks, jazz music, James Dean, Elvis, Dennis Hopper, Avant-garde, Pabst Blue Ribbon, White Castle. . . . unconventional. I realize the idea of "hip Catholic" is