Baptists and Catholics Together For Ash Wednesday services. I like to offer commentary, but this link comments sufficiently [http://merecomments.typepad.com/merecomments/2006/03/ash_wednesday_e.html].
Martinifest with Expensive Art. What Could Go Wrong? > The glistening white Santiago Calatrava addition has made the Milwaukee Art Museum one of the city's classiest social addresses. But a recent martini fete held there turned into an overcrowded, drunken affair. Some unruly guests accosted artworks, which have been taken off display for a checkup. >
Kaufmann Friction makes the mind sharper. The youthful Chesterton became a Christian after reading all the avant-garde heretics of his day and concluding, "These guys are idiots" (loose paraphrase--GKC didn't use such disrespectful words). The problem with reading heretics, though, is the temptation to see things their
"Let Us Build the City of God . . ." Horrible song, but I like the plan: > A FORMER marine who was raised by nuns and made a fortune selling pizza has embarked on a £230m plan to build the first town in America to be run according to strict Catholic principles. > Abortions, pornography and contraceptives will
Sunday Evening Eudemon My apologies for the lame posting today. Sundays are rough, and this Sunday rougher than most. I attended Mass, wrote two articles, and prepared for and attended Meg's (4, turning 5) birthday party. That's combined with the regular stuff that Sundays bring: playing with the kids,
Wannabe Cannibal An artist who baked a life-size model of her own naked body out of bread dough will watch her audience eat it at an exhibition. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4749366.stm] I don't know much about art, so I can't
Psycho Path > Farfrompoopen Road, the only road to Constipation Ridge, lost to Divorce Court and Psycho Path, which placed No. 1 in an online poll of the nation's wildest, weirdest and wackiest street names. > Mitsubishi Motors sponsored the poll on the Web site http://www.TheCarConnection.com [http:
The Weekend Eudemon It's been a good weekend so far. I took my eldest son (12) to the doctor's office for a physical yesterday at 4:15, and we had to wait only five minutes for the doctor. This is the same doctor's office that has kept