Always in the Arena: “Watergate turned the 37th president into a toxic symbol, and we are only just beginning to recover.” Atlas International: “When you have to rush to the hospital at 3AM, whose door will you knock on? Who will you ask to go into your house and get your kids and keep them…
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MONDAY LINKS: Seraphim; Harmonic Interludes; and Aloneness
And Suddenly Things Change: “Everything that can break is breaking: stock markets, bond markets, the galaxy of derivatives โ bets on this and that, which will never be honored. Banks are next. Gold and silver are hanging in there for dear life just now, because theyโre actually worth something.” Biblically Accurate Angels — Christianity’s Undisputed…
๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ค: Reduced to the Essence of Their Own Geometries; Metaphorical Sparks; Overwhelming Passion
Austin, TX: “What Austin does have is a lot of smart white people.” Ballard’s Sextet: “…mannequins are human beings from whom all transitional time has been eroded, they have been reduced to the essence of their own geometries.” Batshit Crazy America: ”ย It is the way ofย Homo sapiens that moral codes derive generally from the supervision…
The Passion of the Christ
I watched The Passion of the Christ for the first time ever on Good Friday this year. I think it’s worth watching and many parts are very well done but I do think Mel Gibson went too far with the blood, the gore and the violence, which apparently has been a recurring criticism of the…
#WEEKENDLINKS
Culinary Mysticism — review of “Pig,” starring Nicolas Cageย (IM1776) Rob does not hate Portland; like Socrates, who dismisses outright the idea of fleeing Athens for Thessaly, he sees it from the standpoint of eternity, and so both loves it and knows it to be deeply broken: Amir: โIf the city floods we can always…
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America: “The day of the wolf is over. This is the day of the coyote. Small cunning packs that fragment and spread. The wolf was law and order. Tradition obedience and hierarchy. We honor the wolf because heโs dead. The coyote looks up from eating your trash to eyefuck you. He survives.” Delicious Tacos Bayesian…