YOUR FACE IS MARKED UPON THE CLOCKFACE. Read more

WHY HELLO THERE. I will be in New Haven 10/21/07-10/29/07. If you’re in that area, and think you can pull together some kind of thing where I speak (about the stuff in my Commonweal piece, I think), drop me an email…. I promise I won’t cuss a lot. Read more

PREGNANCY CENTER TRAINING IN DC: Looking for a unique opportunity to serve your community on Capitol Hill? The Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center is training new volunteers for 6 weeks starting Saturday, Oct. 20 from 9am to noon. If you or a friend feel called to this ministry or would like more information, please call Ann Wink at 202-546-1018 or [email protected] This is the center where I volunteer. It’s a really great place; if you’ve been thinking you need some more... Read more

SHAKESPEARE TUBE MAP. Via Angevin2. Read more

ALTERNATE HISTORY AND WAR. Read more

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... Read more

BECKETT FOR BABIES. Stimulate your infant’s intellectual development with Beckett for Babies, an introduction to some of the most important – and most difficult – literature of the twentieth century. Via About Last Night. Read more

I’ll be gonein a blog or watch…Colby Cosh: “one of history’s most poignant gestures of friendship“ Scans Daily: “With a white lily in my hand, I will kick your arse!” (You know, I seem to recall an incident in the Ellmann biography much like this one, only it took place at Oxford.) Via Journalista. Sean Collins: David Bowie sketchbook. (Which David Bowie are you?) Also, does this mean we have to start doing philosophy again?? Read more

I’M SURE there was totally a reason for the diaper, here, and it wasn’t in any way the result of a desire to degrade and humiliate someone because people thought they could get away with it. Likewise the beating, cursing, and assorted justice. Would’ve all been fine if they’d gotten the right guy, you know. (Via The Agitator. And I feel like I should add sarcasm tags, in case this is somebody’s first time reading the blog….) relevant link Read more

“What did you think of Paneloux’s sermon, Doctor?”The question was asked in a quite ordinary, tone, and Rieux answered in the same tone.“I’ve seen too much of hospitals to relish any idea of collective punishment. But, as you know, Christians sometimes say that sort of thing without really thinking it. They’re better than they seem.”–Albert Camus, The Plague Read more