Friday, June 29, 2007

Upon This Coward

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from Chesterton Day by Day JUNE 29th, ST. PETER'S DAY WHEN Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for ...
Thursday, June 28, 2007

Award'd

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Special bulletin: Dawn Eden was apparently given the American Chesterton Society's prestigious "Outline of Sanity" award shor...

Happy anniversary to the Chesterblogg

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Today is the wedding anniversary of G. K. and Frances (June 28, 1901). For their silver anniversary in 1926 he wrote: Epithalamium Argentum ...

Ann Coulter clerihew

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Ann Coulter, sensibility jolter, will continue to say what she wants to say as long as we pay
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

A fragment

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The following was written by Gilbert some time between 1902 and 1906. It's short but sweet. The furious Frenchman comes with his clario...
Monday, June 25, 2007

Conference Round-Up

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For the sake of all those who could not be there in person (like me, I regret to say; next year, by God!), here is a broad selection of repo...
Saturday, June 23, 2007

Street Fight Part 2

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Here is an update on my fight with a local op-ed writer. It has been long. It has not been pretty. I know when two people fight no one wins...
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Thursday, June 21, 2007

An Easy Essay

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People credit Dorothy Day with starting the Catholic Worker movement. Dorothy Day credits Peter Maurin with the ideas behind the Catholic Wo...

Conference CDs

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CDs of the American Chesterton Society conference talks are now available at www.chesterton.org/cds_online.htm "If for some inexcusable...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Devoted to a Drivelling Dissipation

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Today's quote from Chesterton Day by Day is another bit on the comradeship of men (see my previous post " Man Night "): JUNE ...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Sleuth Show

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The big guy will be making appearance in Chicago: At the Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore . Gilbert Magazine's Art Livingston will pla...
Monday, June 18, 2007

Considerations of a Ceremony

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As I mentioned all too briefly last week - and apparently with poor grammar - last Monday saw me graduate from the University of Western Ont...
Friday, June 15, 2007

A Report from ChesterCon

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Not here, but over at The Unknown Poet 's blog. It sounds hot there again this year. I hope the first-timers found the fans kept hidde...
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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Chesterton citing

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A while back I mentioned that I’ve been working my way through My Life with the Saints by Father James Martin. Father Martin does not list ...

GILBERT CHESTERTON IS DEAD

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"GILBERT CHESTERTON IS DEAD" began Fr Vincent McNabb's written eulogy in G.K.'s Weekly regarding the event, 71 years ago...

A clerihew

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For Arthur Clough Life was short and sometimes tough. His skeptical views and rhymes Did not always fit his times.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

What's Wrong with the World

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I can tell you what's wrong with my world: no time. Twelve-hour days, then kid functions up the wazoo (whazoo?). For today, I merely dir...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Anger Online

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Matthew Anger, editor of the recently published Belloc anthology The Eyewitness , has been blogging for a year and a half at Glendalough: Bo...
Monday, June 11, 2007

Graduating

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I am now the proud bearer of an Honours BA in English from the University of Western Ontario. This has been taking some time, though, so I...
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PSA: How to Open a Book

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If you buy old books, then occasionally you'll come across a book that is unopened: Pages are joined with the next at the top or bottom....