Werewolf over You

Note to my more sensitive readers: this song includes an oboe.

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Hold your nose

I’ve been looking for this. Bless youtube.

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Monstrance of Rock

I’m writing on something loosely connected to this picture, which I found by accident, but am considering as a tattoo. I will be looking for a cleaner copy.

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name dropping, finger pointing

I’m a little distracted by some other writing I have to do. But, a few things have come to my attention. On breaks. Number uno, a dude who another dude that is a dude I know knows that is a very talented dude, Robby Hecht. He writes his own good stuff, too, but in this [...]

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Gorgeous Behavior

One more comment about worldly gain, and then a song. I promise. A friend from High School is now at the National Review, and wrote this insightful piece about the standards for card playing in the current race. It’s interesting what we choose to get sensitive about, and Palin’s candidacy will give us plenty more [...]

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As you said it to the least of these. . .

Now, I can hardly believe a word being said on or about a convention stage in the last two weeks, but I thought this was an interesting response: a call for Christians to stand against Palin’s rhetoric, if not her content. The Matthew 25 Network includes both shunned Obamacon Roman Catholic Doug Kmiec and ubiquitous [...]

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Just Browsing

A few things that have become unnecessary essentials lately: The Moth podcast Sound Opinions podcast (you were right, Robby, it’s great) BetterWorld Books: great selection, free shipping, and they are very conscientious, even towards local libraries. The Iconogram and Blog Networks Facebook apps: windows into heaven, and into the make-up of the communities behind your [...]

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“Let’s get home before we get older”

If you’ve ever given much attention or thought to teenagers, maybe even been one or cared for a few, I recommend this recent post from Stuff about Cari: Maybe they secretly met up with the hottest guy at Lincoln Middle after changing into the cutest long-sleeved midriff sweater from Abercrombie in the bathroom at the [...]

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You think it’s hot now. . .

Thanks be to God.

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A Nation of Mans

Within a few experiences of each other, I saw Mike Judge’s Idiocracy and Pixar’s Wall-E. I don’t know if this will happen to a lot of people, but it makes for an interesting vision of the future. Wall-E assumes we will be commodified and technopolied into boneless blobs of passive, isolated-in-a-crowd, roaming media eaters. Idiocracy [...]

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