Brews You Can Use God willing, you're reading this after I spent a night of drinking at old haunts along South University in Ann Arbor [https://localwiki.org/ann-arbor/South_University] with Marie, Alex, and Abbie, then crashing at Abbie's before heading back to the

Miscellaneous Rambling Happy Flag Day . . . with the "L." The cover story in the current issue of Gilbert Magazine is about John Wu. Very good piece. I don't know a ton about Wu, but he holds that Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism were good seed beds for Christianity,

Midweek Rambling I read this at Reddit's Today I Learned page: "The budget for the original 1978 film Halloween was so small that the actor playing Michael Myers was paid $20 per day and the original Michael Myers mask was purchased at a local costume shop for

Normie Rambling I finally finished Kill All Normies. I enjoyed it, even if it was riddled with typos (it was rushed through the production process, the publishing house sensing, rightly, it would ring with the Trump election). If I had to summarize it: The Internet had a guy culture of

Miscellaneous Rambling Man: wet, wet, and more wet. Whenever I see this much wetness, I'm reminded of that character in CSL's Voyage of the Dawn Treader who comments, "“Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?” From The

Spring blitz. Annual family golf outing yesterday; four graduation parties today. Thankfulness is the hallmark of the fulfilled life, so even though I enjoy time to myself, I am thankful that enough people like this curmudgeon-wannabe to invite him out. Of course, maybe they just like Marie? I am

From the Notebooks Russia has always been a country that takes ideas and practices from the outside, then twists and turns them into something uniquely Russian. This tendency seems endemic to Russia, perhaps ingrained from its inception when its Slavic peoples continually expanded from the western side of the great

Miscellaneous Rambling A loyal TDE reader sends this podcast along: A Good Story is Hard to Find [https://agoodstoryishardtofind.blogspot.com/p/the-library.html]. Playing off the name of Flannery O'Connor's famous, and really disturbing, short story [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Good_Man_

Summer Rambling I've never been a "hobby guy," the kind of man who looks for things to do so he can get through this veil of tears without thinking about what's on the other side. The hobby guy, to me, is the poster child

Miscellaneous Rambling This is an interesting piece: "10 Troubling Habits Of Chronically Unhappy People [https://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2016/07/26/10-troubling-habits-of-chronically-unhappy-people/#20beb79b70f3] ." I'm happy to report, I suffer from fewer than half (probably two strongly and two