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Knit One, Purl a Pattern
Friday April 16, 2010
Once I asked my neighbor, the composer David Liptak, why listening to classical music can be so meditative. David offered: “when your mind is focused on following the pattern in music, other preoccupations tend to drop away.” As I expand my skills in knitting (which I’ve mused on in earlier posts such as....
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I before E
Thursday April 15, 2010
Among the register of things once known, now less known, is the fundamental capacity to spell. And if it would seem that a loss so detrimental to the world of letters—in truth, to the civilized world—would raise a greater alarm, such is not the case. Never before has such degeneracy been found less worrisome, less cause for shame. “It’s just....
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This Week in Under-Known Christian-ish Rock
Wednesday April 14, 2010
Ever since I decided to stop trying to know everything about new music (I really recommend this; it’s very liberating), I’ve been able to focus on my favorite genre, which the good people of ImageUpdate recently made fun of me for: “Recording Artists Who Kinda Sound Like They Might Be Christians.” I thought I might spill a little digital ink about the....
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Big Baptists
Tuesday April 13, 2010
Yesterday morning I woke up laughing, thinking of a phrase my mother used to use but which I hadn’t heard in years, “Big Baptists.” “He was a big Baptist,” she’d say, commenting on something she’d read in the Jackson, Mississippi Clarion-Ledger, or even in The Baptist Record, the in-state newspaper of the....
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I am No Man
Monday April 12, 2010
My parents still keep a battered vinyl copy of Bill Conti’s Rocky soundtrack in a box of old records. When I was seven years old, I wrote “Kelly’s Workout Music” on the front cover. My chicken-scratch scrawl is still discernible there. I say this not to illustrate my then already blooming self-consciousness as a body that needed to be toned and fit, rather to illustrate....
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