What’s this blog about? What is a eudemon? How do you pronounce “eudemon”? Didn’t you used to be called “The Wednesday Eudemon”? Why did you stop using TWE and become The Daily Eudemon? Who are you? What is Your Link Policy? Do you really have seven children? Blended family? Seven children in eleven years? How do you keep your sanity? Where do you find time to write at all? Your house must be loud. Where do you write? Did you used to write in the plural first person and refer to yourself in the third person? What prompts you to post? You refer to drinking a lot. How much do you drink? Sounds like a lot. Is that a good example for your children? Do you drink while you write? Does it affect your writing?
Pop culture, religion, history, literature, philosophy, humor, and drinking–usually from a Catholic perspective, but in a manner that non-Catholics find inviting.
A spirit of light.
Random House Dictionary says, “you-dē’mun.” I like the hip hop pronunciation: “you-duh-MAN.”
Yes. Actually, the blog started as “Notes Quotes and Aphorisms,” but I aborted that lame effort after about nine months, then I sat, fermenting (or decomposing, depending on your view of my writing). I re-activated the blog as TWE in December 2004.
When I re-activated the blog, I planned to post once a week only, but I like to be sarcastic almost every day of the week, so the daily format is more appropriate. Once I switched, TWE became confusingly anachronistic.
Eric Scheske, a writer and editor with an interest in popular culture. Writing Resume. With my seventh child on the way, I decided that serious prolonged efforts at writing would be nearly futile, so I opted for blogging. I still have books and lengthy essays in the works, but this blog is my primary focus. I hope to take blogging to a new literary level, but I have no idea what I mean by that.
The Bloghorn: If you’re a blog and you link to me, I’ll link to you, unless your site is disagreeable. Just e-mail me and let me know that you’re linking to me, I’ll check out your site, and then add you (again, assuming you’re not a Moloch-worshipper or some such thing).
Links: These are non-blog links that I hold in high regard. You can ask that I add your site here, but I won’t, unless I visit your site regularly and thoroughly enjoy it. A link in this section is an endorsement.
Preliminary: I dislike the term “blended family.” I prefer “jumbled family,” but I’ll answer the question anyway. All seven babies came from my wife with my assistance nine months earlier.
Sanity is over-rated. If you want to be like everyone else (the only standard of sanity in day-to-day life), read nothing but newspapers.
I don’t golf, fish, hunt, watch TV, or breathe. I work (as an attorney), read, play with my children, and drink. The rest of the day is dedicated to writing.
In a hole, surrounded by 2,000 books, a small wine rack, and a crucifix.
Yes. I did so for three reasons: (1) It was an effort to imitate Orestes Brownson’s popular Brownson’s Quarterly Review, a publication he wrote mostly by himself, but in which he always used the plural first person. It’s a venerable tradition. Russell Kirk, a writer with a sure eye on tradition, wrote his autobiography in the third person. (2) It was supposed to help keep the focus off me. (3) I occasionally received contributions from others. I finally decided to switch to the first person, however, because the third person was often unwieldy and I was contemplating new features that simply wouldn’t work in the third person.
If I find something funny or interesting, it gets posted, unless other factors (e.g., tastefulness) prohibit it.
I wish I had a beer for every beer I’ve drank.
Yes. I rarely, if ever, drink to the point of losing my ability to reason, which, one priest assures me, is where drinking crosses the threshold of mortal sin. It’s tough, of course. In the shadow lands leading to sin one walks in the slippery frontier of fun. But that’s no reason to abstain.
No, but I write while I drink.
Yes. That’s why I think the blog is worth reading.
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