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Eric Scheske

Real Catholic Music

After posting the last piece about gospel music, I found this on the same site: > The Catholic mass which Beethoven called the Missa Solemnis is rarely performed. It's eclipsed by the better-known Ninth Symphony. But taken together, the two works shed light on the composer'

Gospel Collection

> Record producer Joel Dorn and photographer Lee Friedlander grew up listening to gospel and blues. They met 40 years ago at Atlantic Records, where Friedlander was photographing many of the artists Dorn produced. > Now they've put out a compilation of their favorite gospel songs from the

Old Travels

When I first started daily blogging in February 2005, I accumulated a bunch of blog sites that seemed like a good source of fodder. As time went on, I abandoned those sites in favor of others. I've scarcely visited those sites in the past six months. For kicks

Where Were the Rocks and Fires?

Back in July 2001 (pre 9/11), South Park portrayed Muhammad in its cartoon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Best_Friends]. Why no hubbub back then? South Park was surely much more widely broadcast that those Danish cartoons. What's going on? Were Muslims in the Middle East

Only Boys Left Behind

Boys are dumb, or the feminist "equalization" measures have beaten the tar out of them, causing them to eschew college. Just another article [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/11/BAGB1H6IFN11.DTL] documenting what everyone knows and efforts in California to get

High Times in Amsterdam

They're not too stoned to steal signs: > Amsterdam's new street signs banning cannabis smoking in parts of the city have sparked global interest. > The sign shows a red circle around a fat cannabis joint in a cloud of smoke sparked by white marijuana leaves.

Violent Crime Rises?

From this morning's NYT: [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/national/12homicide.html?ei=5090&en=cdb21ac7991f0c1b&ex=1297400400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all] > While violent crime has been at historic lows nationwide and in cities like New York, Miami

Something for Sunday Morning

> Freedom from anger is a triumph over one's nature. It is the ability to be impervious to insults and comes by hard work and the sweat of one's brow. . . The first step toward freedom from anger is to keep the lips silent when the heart

Muslims Against the World

> Terror gripped the Buddhist-majority town of Leh in Jammu and Kashmir as clashes between Muslims and Buddhists continued over the alleged desecration of the Holy Quran. Authorities declared a state of curfew and called in the army and the para-military Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) to maintain

Private Revelations

Article at the Times Online today about private revelations [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3933-2034462,00.html]. I know B16 isn't as receptive to the revelations as JPII seemingly was, but I'm not sure if the harsh picture painted by the article is