(This started out life as a book review, but as I started adding in thoughts about the subject, I realized that it was more of a brain-dump of my accrued thoughts from years of having tried to figure out what the heck happened to the once-honorable visual arts — painting, drawing, sculpture. It got lengthy, […]

The two Fox journalists have been released, and thank God for that. But consider this aspect of their captivity:
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Two Fox News journalists freed by militants Sunday described a harrowing two weeks of captivity during which they were blindfolded, tied in painful positions and forced at gunpoint to say on […]

Still making my way through

This entry is all about the recent stuff about Tom Cruise, so if that kind of gossipy nonsense annoys you, ta-ta for now and I promise not to do it again. I really understand, because I usually don’t even think about giving a thought to what is making Hollywood headlines. But I find myself a […]

I’ve been really wanting to write some important blog entry that just ties up all the loose ends and makes sense out of it all. Not for other people, of course — what am I, Confucius? — but just in my own limited ability to be all right with the world. But what are you […]

Out of a clear blue sky (figuratively speaking — it’s actually gray and cloudy today), I suddenly have a craving for waffles.
Nothing really to add to that. I just thought that sharing tender moments like that was what blogging was all about.

Boy, it was a pretty day today. We got an absolutely incredible rainstorm on Sunday night — the kind where the lightning has strobe-light-frequency and the thunder sounds like quarter sticks of dynamite going off — and that appears to have signaled the temporary end of the stinking heat wave we’ve been dealing with. The […]

In chanting the paraklesis service last night, my attention was diverted by one verse. From the Hymns of Ascent: “Ye haters of Zion shall be shamed by the Lord; for like grass, by the fire shall ye be withered up.”
Ye haters of Zion …
Those who fit that description these days have a very different […]

I’m forever trying to think in terms of the shorter blog entries that just reference a good read and move on, a la Instapundit. Usually I begin adding my 2-cents in, and inflation takes over.
But I think I’ve got a real shot at keeping it short right now, because it’s 100-something outside and our upstairs […]

Remember my temporary addiction to Oblivion? Well, the more Greg and I thought of it, the more it seemed like a bit of an anticlimax to just uninstall the game. That game has eaten up many, many hours of my valuable lifespan and I’m going to end all that by just selecting something from a […]