Saturday, March 31, 2007

Art Bell, Dean Koontz, Mr. T, and GKC

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I think that much of the genius of GKC, CS Lewis, and Tolkein consists in their ability to draw in people from many different, seemingly con...
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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Chesterton and the Priest of Spring

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Spring is creeping in to Western New York - with occasional interruptions of sub-freezing temperatures and snow to remind us that winter is...
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No Gilbert

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It's now been a week since some folks have gotten the latest Gilbert. No luck here. This moves me to song - Oh where, oh where has my Gi...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Chesterton Wins!

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At Phat Catholic's poll: Who's your favorite Catholic author? Link . He barely beat out Tolkien. The two of them were far ahead of t...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

That's No Lady. That's Luciferette

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When my issue of Gilbert comes I begin reading it on my walk home from the post office. I start with News With Views , because you can read ...
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Monday, March 26, 2007

Sightings

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Dean Koontz, being interviewed in Faith & Family magazine: "I feel about Catholicism as G.K. Chesterton did -- that it encourages ...
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Saturday, March 24, 2007

Grow up

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I have been thinking a lot lately as to what went wrong and when. Just how did this age become know as the Post Christian Society? Some call...
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Friday, March 23, 2007

Is it a venial sin.......

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......to mention CS Lewis on a Chesterton blog? I used to think that quoting Lewis to Dale Ahlquist was either a venial sin, fighting words,...
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Thursday, March 22, 2007

Waiting for Gilbert

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As I wait for my copy of Gilbert to arrive, I think of St. Augustine’s comment that, "Patience is the companion of wisdom." Oh, to...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

THE FIRST EDICT OF KING STEVE

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It had been a long, hard, oppressive winter. The likes of which had not been felt for a generation. In the neighborhood, where Steve lived, ...
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Chesterton Sighting

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At last weekend's edition of the New York Sun , in a review of Clive James' new book : As Mr. James shows in this essay, a real inte...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

New Gilbert is Here

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Volume 10 Number 4 (Issue 77) has arrived. I haven't had much chance to read it, but I've glanced through it and read Dailey's T...
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Friday, March 16, 2007

On Time..

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It seems rare that I make my Friday post on an actual Friday. Platform shoes/Platform thinking The events of the last week have gotten me th...
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Thursday, March 15, 2007

A unicorn behind the wheel

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There's a story in the news about a man who claims a unicorn was driving his truck and crashed it. Phillip C. Holliday Jr. of Billings M...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

GKC at Culture Wars

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I hear the current issue of Culture Wars has a "hatchet job" on Chesterton. I went to the site but couldn't find anything, ex...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Tolkien

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I just read in The Atlantic that Tolkien is publishing another book . It's about Hurin's children (Turin Turambar and Nienor, I ass...
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Monday, March 12, 2007

A Bit Late Again.........

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......But continuing the theme. Im sorry about missing my normal Friday, had some business and family committments that ate up the whole wee...
Thursday, March 08, 2007

Manly Men

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In Eric’s post on manly men he did bring up the question (in my mind) of “what does it mean to be a man?” Some situations are easy to decid...
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Cheat the Prophet

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There was a Chesterton sighting in our local paper. No, not the great one himself. (I think he’s scheduled to be in Chicago this Saturday, t...
Wednesday, March 07, 2007

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Sorry for the dearth of posting. Life has been fairly hectic. My most-recent blog column is online at The Register (registration required)....
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