Eric Scheske

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Slowly Learning to Live I'm not looking to join last summer's Tropic Thunder velitation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropic_Thunder#Controversy], but about ten years ago I volunteered to sell Tootsie Rolls to help people with mental disabilities. I figured it was an easy way

Monday Miscellany

I've long been fascinated with the question, "How ought one to spend his time?" It used to be a fascination born of bitterness: volunteer organizations would ask me spend time helping with X or Y, not realizing my schedule was so full with writing projects and

Monday Miscellany

Planned Parenthood constantly sets the free sex and fewer children bar higher. Dawn Eden has assembled a great set of PP ads [http://www.dawneden.com/2007/12/ad-nauseam-part-1-around-world-with.html], like this one: I really like this one when juxtaposed against the one above: They love children, as long as

St. Nicholas, the Janitor Pianist, and Multitasking

December 6: St. Nicholas's feast day. John Zmirak writes everything you need to know [http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_real_st_nicholas/]. Excerpt: > The association of Nicholas with gift-giving isn't entirely arbitrary. Some of the earliest accounts of his life include the charming

Tuesday Lite

Light day. I was on kid duty last night. We rushed through chores, prayers, teeth brushing, and everything else, so we'd be ready for The Year without a Santa Claus [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072424/]. Dancing and singing along to the best animated scene in Christmas TV

Monday Miscellany

The young-but-reliable-and-smart Nick Milne saw an advanced viewing of The Golden Compass. Here's his review [http://gentlefuss.blogspot.com/2007/12/film-review-golden-compass.html]. He also put together bullet points especially interesting to Catholics and sent it to Ignatius Insight [http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2007/12/a-report-on-the.html]

Picture Tour of Europe

I don't know why he did it, but Jeffrey Smith at The New Roving Medievalist posted a picture tour of Europe yesterday [http://medievalist2.blogspot.com/]. It's great, one of the best assortment of pictures I've ever seen. It made me think: What other

This Scoop Couldn't Wait Until Monday

On May 12, 2007, Emory University will unveil the complete collection of letters from Flannery O'Connor to Elizabeth “Betty” Hester [http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/2007/April/April%2023/flannery_oconnor.htm] . Hester was, um, unorthodox, but it looks like the libertines will be sorely disappointed:

Great Video

One of the best videos I've seen in a long time [http://www.americanpapist.com/2006/10/video-doves-campaign-for-real-beauty.html] . Directly on point with my rantings against make-believe women [http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=2&art_id=24526].

The Mexican Eudemon

Maybe I oughtta call it the Seven-Tecate Eudemon. I mentioned on Saturday that the neighbor girl was turning 15. She's Mexican, so it's a big deal. A real big deal. We got invited two weeks ago. No other neighbors got invited. Of course, none of the