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Surrender to the Void (Nine Songs from 2009)
Thursday January 21, 2010
I haven’t a clue about apophatic theology, and have still not read the tattered copy of the Cloud of Unknowing I picked up in a California bookshop three years ago, so I’m once again finding my ontological footing through pop music. A theme has been moving through my life this year, which, if I had to put a name to it, might be....
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The Life She Lived
Wednesday January 20, 2010
I’ve been carrying it around for nearly two weeks running now, and still it haunts me: an obituary from The New York Times Magazine’s longtime year-end feature The Lives They Lived. Not the classic trope of a hard-copy clipping scissored out of the Sunday magazine’s slick pages, but rather our new reflex of hitting Print and watching the article spit out....
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Sherlock Holmes vs. The Godfather
Tuesday January 19, 2010
I’ve never liked scary movies, especially scary movies involving black magic, sorcery, Satanic possession. Even writing those words creeps me out. So, watching the opening scene of the new Sherlock Holmes, I cringed. I’d envisioned pipes and deerstalker caps and perhaps some hounds, and here was human sacrifice in a crypt. Bad guys in black capes and....
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Attention
Friday January 15, 2010
It’s not an uncommon occurrence in my class to hear some variation of the following: “Ms. Foster, I’m really sorry I’m being so hyper! I didn’t take my medication today!” And it’s not an uncommon conversation around the old faculty water cooler (yes, we do sometimes discuss students behind closed doors) to go over and over the various....
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Blessed to Receive
Thursday January 14, 2010
My sister, who is twelve years younger than I am, loves to watch the home videos our parents made during the two-year span they owned and used their RCA video camera. There are few activities I hate more. But as my sister is the baby in the family, and I’m hopelessly....
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