Thursday, September 27, 2007

El perfil de la cordura

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from Gen Ferrer at the ChesterBelloc Mandate : Whether you speak Spanish or not, we encourage all our readers to join a special campaign in ...

Man is a Misshapen Monster

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Yesterday the Wilfrid Laurier University student paper published a good article by Don Morgenson about the cult of progress and problems wit...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

The Difference 80 Years Make

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Amusing GKC anecdote. Could you imagine this movie getting made today without changing the title? British novelist Daphne du Maurier was ner...
Monday, September 24, 2007

Flying Nun Spins Out

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When it comes to the performing arts I subscribe to the basic statement that: Theatre is life. Film is art. Television is furniture. It is ...
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Friday, September 21, 2007

Parodies

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I had a thought this morning, along the line of some of Chesterton's themes about the Catholic Church, and its utter uniqueness. Most re...
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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Gilbert

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There's something very Chestertonian about the July/August issue of Gilbert arriving in mid September. Good issue. It's even the ri...
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Chesterton sighting

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The Art of Writing: Ten Tips from the Masters Check out the tenth suggestion. A paradoxical and (likely) unintentional refutation of the en...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

The sounds of Belloc

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Many of you have likely heard the diminutive examples of Gilbert's voice that have somehow made their way onto the internet. It has a g...
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Potential Chestertonian moment foiled

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Sorry for the lack of posting recently; school is being a real bear right now, and, just as with last year, there are grant applications to ...
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Friday, September 14, 2007

Following up and following on...

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President John Kennedy had to battle that stereotype 47 years ago, but it still lingers. I trace many of the problems in the American Church...
Thursday, September 13, 2007

Those Papist Jurists

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"Bigotry may roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions." – G. K. Chesteron I was skimming the editorial/op-ed/lett...
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Einstein clerihew

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Albert Einstein had to pay a traffic fine for trying to reach the speed of light in a Packard one night.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

New Chesterton Blogger

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Pillar and Foundation . Check it out.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007

The Inklings

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Wikipedia has a pretty good Inklings entry . Check it out.
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Thursday, September 06, 2007

New blog

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Note for readers: "Godescalc," a fan of Chesterton, philosophy, art and other sundry things, has a new blog. Check out Notes from...

Michael Vick and Savonarola

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Last week I wrote a clerihew about Michael Vick. Today, I return to his case. Part of his punishment is being suspended from pro football fo...
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007

New Chesterton fan needs feedback

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The incomparable Nancy Brown has a message up on the ACS blog that she received from a gentleman who is an extremely recent convert to our b...
Tuesday, September 04, 2007

New from Amazon.......

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If you need to read this, Then read this: Collected works in Large Print.
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Ox Blog

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A new blog dedicated to The Dumb Ox , who kinda qualifies as a GKC friend, though there's obviously the problem of about 750 years betwe...
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Monday, September 03, 2007

On the trolley again

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Now happily ensconced in London once again, I can get back to the furious content-production for which I'm famous. Not immediately, of ...