Eric Scheske

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Historical Miniature

Flippin' flip books [http://www.flippies.com/history.htm]. Excerpt from the beginning: > From the pre-motion picuture era to the origins of animation, cinema and modern entertainment, flip books are recognized as one of the earliest forms of what today is referred to as "interactive multimedia"

June 6, 2006

You think Tim LaHaye is just an honest Christian who happened to make a bunch of money from writing fiction about his pet eschatological theory? Check out this page: The Rapture--Coming 06.06.06 [http://www.leftbehind.com/]. LaHaye is a marketer, a fiction writer, and maybe a psychologist, but

Rowling

A correspondent says J.K. Rowling isn't a freak. I found this interesting enough to post at Chesterton and Friends [http://chestertonandfriends.blogspot.com/] and here: > She is a member of the Church of Scotland (the Scottish Anglican Church-- not the Presbyterian church). She refuses to reveal

What James Schall Plans to Read During Lent

One of my favorites comments on one of my favorites: > For Lent, I will read Hilaire Belloc's Places. Belloc is the best essayist in our language. Here are essays on places from North to the South of Europe, to the Mideast, to North Africa. The memory of

Odd Consumer News

You have $4,000 and the toilet is too good for it? Go here and purchase Super Bowl XL, Opus [http://www.krakenopus.com/NFLhome_flash.aspx]. It's 20" x 20", weighs 90 pounds, and appears to contain a higher percentage of fluff than your pillow.

Saturday Evening Eudemon

Settling back with six of the seven children, watching Hidalgo. I heard good things about it. We'll see. I just got back from an outing with Alex (12). I took him to the video store to pick out the movie, then took him to Mike's Pizza,

Going After Them Reading People

I don't know how I missed this last week: > This coming Tuesday, the new line of NASCAR-themed Harlequin Romance books makes its official debut with a press conference at Daytona International Speedway. Link to Week-Old News [http://www.exceptionalmarriages.com/weblog/BlogDetail.asp?ID=29102].

Bernanos

It's George Bernanos' birthday today. Here are a few links to the excellent fiction writer. General Bio Link [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bernanos.htm]. Crisis Link [http://www.crisismagazine.com/julaug2002/book4.htm]. Welborn on Diary of a Country Priest [http://www.amywelborn.com/catholicwriters/diary.

100 Openings

100 best first lines from novels [http://www.litline.org/ABR/100bestfirstlines.html]. Good stuff. Thanks, Eve Tushnet [http://eve-tushnet.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_eve-tushnet_archive.html#113917389683730321] .

Odd Books

A list of eight odd "How-to" books: How to be Happy Though Married, by "A Graduate in the University of Matrimony" How to Rob Banks without Violence, by Roderic Knowles How to Shit in the Woods, by Kathleen Meyer How to Become a Schizophrenic, by John