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Like Leaving the Piano in Ohio
Douglas Coupland prefaces Bit Rot, his most recent collection of essays and stories, with this: When the pioneers crossed North America from east to west, the first thing to be thrown off the family Conestoga wagon was the piano, somewhere … Continue reading
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Calvin on Reading
At least he doesn’t even pretend to try SparkNotes . . . or Cliff Notes, even. (image from gocomics.com)
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To the Dark Tower, Come
Today saw the release of the first trailer for Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. Check it out. Some initial thoughts: it looks good. Is it as gritty as the source material? Not at all. There are books in the series … Continue reading
Closer to the Field of Roses (or everything goes 19)
Trailer sometime tomorrow. Hoping that this movie is as amazing as it deserves to be.
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Technology in Its Proper Place
One of the introductory thoughts in Andy Crouch’s The Tech-Wise Family concerns “the proper place” for technology. The benefit of that phrase is in the acknowledgment that technology, screens and all, has a place. Wisdom, though, is key in determining … Continue reading
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Lightning Round of Potential
It’s important to forget, I think, that Dave Eggers’ The Circle is first and foremost a thriller. The trailers for the soon-dropping flick build well, which means you’re more likely to go in expecting sharp turns. The book, the overall … Continue reading
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“Sometimes a Kind of Glory”
From the thirteenth chapter of Steinbeck’s East of Eden: Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite. It … Continue reading
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Today in Middle Earth
It’s easy to forget that March 25th is quite the day of significance in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Here are a couple of clips concerning what “happened” today in Middle Earth history. and then I think … Continue reading
The Basic Question of the Benedict Option
I finished Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option. As a friend recently said: if you’ve been reading Dreher’s blog for a while, you totally know what you’re getting in this book. The only thing that really stood out from the book-version … Continue reading
Fellowship of Legends
Tonight DC’s Legends of Tomorrow traveled to World War I and the Battle of the Somme to track down some literary help from JRR Tolkien. The show has used the idea of the “Spear of Destiny” (the spear that pierced … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 