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Archive for October, 2009
Short Short Story Saturday
Saturday, October 31st, 2009Vampire stories are the rage, it’s Halloween, and I always got a small narcissistic kick out of this story. It ran in Gilbert Magazine about ten years ago . . . but the undead are timeless. Gothic Nihilism Jonathan had just finished watching The Conan O’Brien Show when the doorbell rang. He slowly rolled off [...]
7 Jack-o-Lanterns
Friday, October 30th, 2009– Mobile post
More carvings
Friday, October 30th, 2009– Mobile post
Brews You Can Use: Halloween Edition
Friday, October 30th, 2009Top Ten List Looking for scary beers? Here’s a top ten list. Moorhoueses’ Pendle Witches Brew, Young’s Old Nick, Rogue’s Dead Guy, Fantôme’s Black Ghost, Great Lakes’ Nosferatu, Wychwood’s WychCraft, Alesmith Evil Dead Red, Reaper Deathly Pale Ale, New Holland’s Ichabod, Gritty McDuff’s Halloween Ale. Lamentably, I’ve never tasted any of ‘em. Heck, I don’t [...]
Abbreviated Thursday
Thursday, October 29th, 2009With the end of football (see post immediately below), I thought my life was about to shift to leisure mode: lots of time for reading, writing, and drinking. But no: parent-teacher conferences, out-of-town seminars, Halloween festivities. The . . . (um, er) excrement never stops. Plus I’m not feeling well. I thought yesterday afternoon that [...]
Final game
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Final football game of the season tonight. Gorgeous evening, nice farmland background. On evenings like that, you’re glad to be a rural dweller. — Mobile post
From the Notebooks
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009A hazy picture is beginning to emerge in my mind. The picture is this: America, the Protestant Empire, has always been opposed to things Catholic. The opposition used to be explicit: the KKK hated Catholics and Jews, as well as blacks. In the twentieth century, such bigotry became unfashionable, so it largely went underground. But [...]
Tuesday
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Ignorant of Theophilus? “There’s more to sports than winning.” “It’s not about winning and losing.” “Winning isn’t the most important thing.” Those types of platitudes surround sports today, especially youth sports. And I have to admit: I don’t understand them. If you’re playing a competitive sport, you’re playing to win. That is the only substantive [...]
Cool Monday
Monday, October 26th, 2009Coolidge for President! I liked Reagan alright, but I wouldn’t say he was truly conservative. To find a truly conservative president, you have to journey all the way back to the 1920s. And no, I’m not talking about Hoover. Not at all. The man was far too arrogant about his abilities to be a true [...]
Something for Sunday Morning
Sunday, October 25th, 2009“Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.” Mother Teresa
Saturday
Saturday, October 24th, 2009Not Dead Yet The collapse of the dollar? Not so fast, says one commentator. He raises valid points, but in the end, the writer assumes the U.S. government will do the right thing. And indeed, he might be right. But I don’t see the U.S. government doing the right thing. I hope they do, but [...]