Miscellaneous

BYCU Even when I could drink beer, and greatly enjoyed craft beer, there was something about the "craft beer" movement that annoyed me. I don't know if it was the beer snobbery, or the idea that people were entirely too intense on something (beer drinking) that

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full

Bullets I'm always open to blog recommendations. This one [http://www.serenityfarmcsa.com/] is by a family farm in Kansas that is trying some cool stuff. * * * * * * * This article isn't as interesting as its title implies, but it's not bad: Apocalyptic beliefs may explain why

Miscellaneous Rambling Boy, spring slams into us with a bang. From -2 temperatures on Friday to 42 on Saturday. That's a 45-degree swing in 48 hours. * * * * * * * I started up my garden over the weekend, erecting my little portable greenhouse, moving my micro-green trays from the grow lamp to

My birthday is coming up. My mom gave me a birthday card early, since she'll be out of town. I present it here, virtually unmodified, to spite my three brothers and cause them much envy:

Three of 'Em I'm declaring this past week the "Week of Coincidences." First, there was the coincidence I mentioned earlier [https://thedailyeudemon.com/36181/] (regarding the Berry quote). And then these two: 1. On February 22nd, I blogged about the apparent virtues of essential oils

The constant innovation that is America, even in the era of the jackboot socialist-wannabes in Washington:

And a BYCU, of sorts: Happy birthday to Marie. At age ___, she's as attractive as she was when we first met. That's an exaggeration, but not much of one. Last year, she got carded at a bar. When I then offered the barmaid my i.d.

47 pictures with incorrect use of quotation marks [http://news.distractify.com/avericlements/the-30-most-unnecessary-uses-of-quotation-marks-in-history/] . The writer's commentary beneath each picture is pretty good, too. Sample: ...Actually, this one is pretty on-point.

More Miscellaneous Rambling Been meaning to post this article for over a week: Wendell Berry, Burkean [http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/wendell-berry-burkean/]. I need to try Berry again. I remember reading him over ten years ago, and something about his writing--the prose? the ideas?--just didn't click with