Eve Tushnet
Good stuff from Alan Jacobs. (There’s also a causal-arrow question here: Do people feel God’s love because they gave of themselves, rather than the other way around? “The fruit of service is peace” and all that stuff.) Read more
Good stuff from Alan Jacobs. (There’s also a causal-arrow question here: Do people feel God’s love because they gave of themselves, rather than the other way around? “The fruit of service is peace” and all that stuff.) Read more
tr. Edward G. Seidensticker: Clearly he would one day have to tell Hiroshi everything, to appeal to his reason. Kaname did not doubt that the boy would understand, and to deceive him seemed as reprehensible as to deceive a grownup. Neither he himself nor Misako was wrong, Kaname would say; what was wrong was outdated convention. The time would come when a child need think nothing of having divorced parents. He would go on being their child, and he could... Read more
at AmCon. Spoilers. Read more
October 10, 1960: …One of the things which bothers me mightily is the bitterness and criticism of angry young men. Do pray for them and all such. Sometimes I try to tell myself, finding myself too critical, “they are prophets crying out in this time.” But there are too many of them. Around a place like the Catholic Worker there are always too many, too much of the rebellious spirit. From the last year we have had with us a... Read more
A fairly feathery piece from me at AmCon. And yes, I already know that I should have said “fondant” instead of “frosting”! Read more
I included this as a link in my previous Wurtzel post but I think it’s worth reprinting an old blog post. I liked Andrew Cherlin’s book quite a bit, but he did this several times: As other lifestyles become more acceptable, you must choose whether to get married and whether to have children. You develop your own sense of self by continually examining your situation, reflecting on it, and deciding whether to alter your behavior as a result. People pay... Read more
GIANT SQUID. Via pretty much everyone I know. Read more
I review 2012’s The Frozen, at AmCon. Spoilerous! Read more
Everybody’s beating up on this Elizabeth Wurtzel column, in which she says: …It had all gone wrong. At long last, I had found myself vulnerable to the worst of New York City, because at 44 my life was not so different from the way it was at 24. Stubbornly and proudly, emphatically and pathetically, I had refused to grow up, and so I was becoming one of those people who refuses to grow up—one of the city’s Lost Boys. I... Read more
I was too tired to make this for dinner last night, so it became a ridiculously colossal lunch today. Half is in the fridge now. If you’re making this dish for one, don’t use two medium yams! Just one. Anyway, I loosely based this delicious dish on this recipe for sweet potato corn cakes with garlic dipping sauce. You can get a beauty shot and a more precise recipe there. Here’s a rough look at what I did: Chopped up... Read more
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