proverbially

“Those who are kind to the poor lend to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done.” Proverbs 19:17
It occurred to me in reading this: as it turns out, the Lord helps them that helps the poor.
A penny saved is a penny.

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lent lite

I always miss TV Turnoff Week. Probably because it’s not well advertised.
I’m in TN this week working. Yes, I’m working. Abstaining from TV by default. In the boxy tunnel I walked through to board my plane (you know, that word I’m thinking of) in LAX, there was a guy behind me on his cell phone [...]

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Nice beat, and I can dance to it.

The current top five requests by toddlers in our back seat, for the week ending April 21, 2007:
5) “Radio Man,” David Wilcox (down 3 spots from last week)
4) “Shabalala,” Ladysmith Black Mambazo
3) “Can’t Stop,” Ozomatli
2) “We’re from Barcelona,” I’m from Barcelona
and at number 1:
“La La La,” Bert & Ernie
Number 3 holds position with the memorable [...]

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Out of Limbo

I am pleased that headlines are making note of the Catholic Church’s gentle dismissal of the concept of limbo. Although, according to some theorists, this really puts the writers of Lost in a bind.
But losing limbo doesn’t rule out the possibility of intercommunication with the bizarro world, as it appears a cooperative venture between [...]

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See the cat? See the cradle?

Kurt Vonnegut has passed. I started reading him as the subject of my 11th grade English thesis, and I liked him even more than Douglas Adams. I ended up keeping on liking him. He sort of laughed, not at our pain, but because we could have so much possibility, and be so unnecessarily, particularly cruel. [...]

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Corduroy? Baby Einstein? Clifford the Big Red Dog? Morons.

In A Color of His Own, Leo Lionni tells the story of a chameleon’s unease over his inability to maintain a coherent identity. His mirrored image is as impermanent as the colors of his context, whether shifting out from underneath or losing their own hue over time. Finally, in the darkness of the tall grass, [...]

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Sing ye heavens, thou earth reply

I become self conscious sometimes about loving words and sounds and pictures so much. It seems foolish, when so much is at stake.
When I am reading Vonnegut or watching a Charlie Kaufman film, the absurdist sublimity of everything becoming so ridiculous assures me life is more hilariously beautiful than I thought. When I am [...]

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A Good Day for Yahoo Headlines

Keith Richards: “I snorted my father”
Insane Clowns prosper even as album sales wane
and the top viewed story of the day:
Couple fights to name baby ‘Metallica’

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