Wednesday, February 28, 2007

The Old Tode Blog

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Did we miss this guy ? He's a blogger who tosses a lot of quotes on the screen, especially from Chesterton. It appears that he quotes GK...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Agatha and GKC

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In 1939 Agatha Christie published a collection of murder mysteries with the title The Regatta Mystery . The volume included the cases of sev...
Monday, February 26, 2007

BLOCK ASIDE MARCH 10TH!

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Chesterton will be in the Chicago area, signing copies of Outline of Sanity . It's in the Chicago Sun-Times . I hear through the electro...
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Sunday, February 25, 2007

One Train - Many Stations

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During Lent, among other devotions, I take the time to do the Stations of the Cross. I came across this essay by Chesterton that combines bo...
Thursday, February 22, 2007

Heresy's kiss

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We are having a parish retreat with Father Simeon Gallagher this week. He is using as the basis of the retreat Mathew 2: 1-11 – the story of...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Mardi Gras

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Happy Mardi Gras. I'm scrambling for a post this morning (readers at The Daily Eudemon may notice that my morning post went up almost tw...
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Sunday, February 18, 2007

This is Monday's post

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I'm posting this early because I have to go to bed early, for I've started waking up at a more reasonable hour (7AM) every day than ...
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Saturday, February 17, 2007

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Who says local governments can’t do the right thing? Idaho can, listen to this beautiful turn of phrase in the House Concurrent Resolution N...
Friday, February 16, 2007

Deus Caritas Est

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In my local parish we have a lecture series named "The Call to be Catholic." Im on the steering committee of this group, and we sp...
Thursday, February 15, 2007

A pro-life pro-choice message

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I first saw this picture a week or so ago. It popped up in a couple of different places, usually with critical comments from prolifers. But ...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Falling Down on Job

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I came down with food poisoning or something else that knocked me out for much of the day yesterday. Today, I'm shoveling out of the sno...
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Monday, February 12, 2007

a smaller quandry

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Like Nick I too am in a quandry. Nothing philosophical, spiritual or of a literary bent but a mystery none-the-less. It is something that is...
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A quandry

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I don't have a new post for you this week. The reason for this, however, has a great deal to do with Chesterton. At the present moment...
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Thursday, February 08, 2007

Clerihew habit

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Edward Lear betrayed no signs of fear about beard-nesting fowl or a cat-courting owl.

Confessions of a bibliophile

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When I first moved to Rochester, there was a wonderful Catholic shop called Trant’s. You could get all sorts of Catholic and religious items...
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Urgent bulletin

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A chance encounter in a combox at Mark Shea's blog has produced a link to an illustrated version of Chesterton's "Song of the...
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Carnage

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In one of my early communication courses a professor told us, “Television has a tremendous power to teach. We should be grateful that it do...
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Chesterton Friends at Wheaton

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A couple of Chesterton notes: The Marion E. Wade Center of Wheaton College (Ill.) publishes VII: An Anglo-American Literary Review . The tit...
Monday, February 05, 2007

Productions of a young man, old beyond his years

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There are two pieces of poetry before us, today. We are most familiar with the productions of Chesterton's mature and established years,...
Saturday, February 03, 2007

A Melville Clerihew

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Herman Melville chose to fill his epic novel with page after page of involved but possibly plagiarized details about whales.
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