The blogwatch is not over yet.

The blogwatch is not over yet.

Uh, I really do have stuff to say, I promise. Sometime this weekend, I’ll post about The Plague aka the best book I’ve read so far this year, and also put up a slew of movie reviews. I may also ramble a bit about Pier Vittorio Tondelli and some other authors. Oh, and there will be another stock-and-soup adventure!

But for tonight, this is all you get. (And next week will be very hectic for me–which will either mean lots of blogging fueled by caffeine and adrenaline, or an acute lack of blogging fueled by ambition, distraction, and fainting in coils.)

Cinecon has moved. Find it here, with a whole passel of reviews from the Toronto International Film Festival.

Jimmy Akin interviews Tim Powers about Three Days to Never. (!) Via Mark Shea. …Wait wait, Powers has a voodoo novel?? WANT.

Millinerd has been added to the blogroll. This is neither a nerdy hatmaker nor one-thousandth of a nerd, but rather, a blog on matters spiritual, aesthetic, historical, and theological. Not necessarily in that order. Try this thing about “spicy saints” to see if you want more.

Paleo-Future: “Similar notions were apparently the main themes of the Century of Progress International Exposition held in Chicago in 1933. …Upon entering the Hall of Science, one was confronted by a large sculptural group featuring a life-sized man and woman, their ‘hands outstretched as if in fear or ignorance.’ Between this couple stood a giant angular robot almost twice their size, bending down, with a metallic arm ‘thrown reassuringly around each.’ The visitor to the fair need not have searched far for the meaning of this image. It could be found in the Exposition motto: SCIENCE FINDS – INDUSTRY APPLIES – MAN CONFORMS.”

The Corner: “But if we overly advantage unchosen obligations (taking as a decisive feature of our place in society, say, not only the fact that we are all born into families but the fact that some are born to the rich and powerful and others not) we run the risk of institutionalizing injustice. So modern liberalism has sought to deny the significance of unchosen obligations, inventing for itself a creation myth by which all human relations result from an original (contractual) choice in some state of nature, which would make only chosen obligations legitimate ones. This has done a lot of good, but it doesn’t change the fact that some of our most important obligations—particularly those in the family—remain unchosen yet binding and essential.” (more–really good stuff)