Friday, April 28, 2006

An even deeper glimpse into the past

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Well, it doesn't look like Eric is around today, so I guess I may as well throw up another gem from the hallowed pages of G.K.'s Wee...
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Thursday, April 27, 2006

An ancient treat, and hopefully the first of many

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So, the library here has back issues of G.K.'s Weekly . Awesome. Those issues have advertisements. Like this one: You can click to enl...
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Future Friend?

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A budding teenage writer cites ten examples she wants to follow in her writing . It's quite ambitious, especially number 2: "1) For...
Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Hollywood Friend

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Saw this at Open Book : Legendary Pictures is developing a live-action film version of Paradise Lost, John Milton’s epic poem, with Scott De...

Post Below

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I posted a picture this morning, but the date stamp said it went up last night, with the result that it's a little bit buried. Go to the...
Monday, April 24, 2006

Something brief, because I've been away for a bit

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Thanks to Eric for his little cover today. I don't have much to say, unfortunately, being as I am in the very endgame of the school year...

GKC in my Basement Study

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An assortment of GK biographies and a few other neat GKC books, chosen mostly at random from my GKC collection. The wine bottles are there f...
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Friend on Friend

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Fr. James Schall deserves to be included in a list of "GKC" friends. In this recent essay about Spain, he invokes another friend,...
Saturday, April 22, 2006

St. George's Day

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I guess St. George's Day is making a comeback. I provided some coverage, along with a GKC poem, over at the Eudemon .
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Friday, April 21, 2006

GKC: Holy Humor

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GK is Everywhere (to steal a phrase from Gilbert Magazine ): "Everyone who attended church on Holy Humor Sunday at the Episcopal Church...
Thursday, April 20, 2006

White Horse Friend

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It's not often you see the White Horse in the blogosphere, so I thought this post deserved a mention: "I was reminded, unexpectedl...
Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Throwing the Union a Bone

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Viagra, Cialis and other erectile dysfunction drugs are costing General Motors Corp. a hefty sum. The company spends $17-million (U.S.) ann...
Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Belloc Makes NYT

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It's not every day that Hilaire Belloc makes it into a New York Times headline, but he did it this morning: The Future of Journalism as...

Renaissance Man

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Chesterton's contemporary, the English poet Alfred Noyes, reminisced in his autobiography about his 1902 weekends at R.C. Lehmann's ...
Monday, April 17, 2006

Chesterton Conference

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It's that time of year again! The 25th Annual G.K. Chesterton Conference is gearing up for its June 15th start date. The three-day even...
Saturday, April 15, 2006

Easter, 1916

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Chesterton mentioned his interest in W.B. Yeats at several points in his Autobiography , and there exists a photograph of the two together w...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

GKC Friend at The New Yorker

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Caitlin Flanagan writes for The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker . She also writes as if she's read a lot of Chesterton on the issue...
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006

GKC and Wells

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Michael Coren relates a priceless anecdote about Chesterton in his biography of H. G. Wells: "Wells was disarmed by Chesterton's go...
Saturday, April 08, 2006

I'm Back

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Thanks, Nick, for holding down the Chestertonian fort while I was gone. I'm back from my southern swing: Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississipp...

GKC and Blair

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This blogger mentions Tony Blair and GKC in the same post . Both are famous Catholic converts. Or at least Blair appears to be heading that ...