Friday, November 25, 2011

My Dinner with Julian Barnes

Not really, but I had a lovely little intersection with Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending, which I'm about 3/4 the way through, on Thanksgiving. I cooked this year for the first time in many years. The gathering of the family was going to be small (with a larger gathering on Friday), so I made...
              

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Thanks Be to Buffy and Blogging

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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Do I Like Parks & Recreation? I only SUPER do

Leslie: Due to my campaign, the romantic aspect of our relationship is over. And I'm totally fine with that. But Ben and I have so much in common we're amazing friends. And friendship is better because friends help you move, they drive you to the airport. Boyfriends just . . . love you and marry...
              

Friday, November 11, 2011

Armistice Day in the Digital Age: 11 am on 11/11/11

There is something inherently cosmic/Matrix when the numeric dates that we look at so casually in everyday life reset themselves into such a clean declaration of the primary of the binary code: 1. It also looks like the great slot machine of life has spun and landed on all stars.Oddly enough, the magnetism...
         

Thursday, November 3, 2011

The Relentless Pollution of Chongqing

One of Andrew Sullivan's regular features is The View From Your Window, where he posts photos that readers send him of the view they are looking at as they blog, or do work of any sort. This one is from a high rise in Chongqing, China. I was there in 2010. When I first woke up I thought that it was...
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Music for All Souls Day

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine "Grant them eternal rest, O Lord" I find great beauty in the propers for the Requiem Mass, and on All Souls I find myself drawn to the musical settings of these most important and final of words. The idea of eternity is so profound, so unimaginable, that sublime...
              
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