Friday, November 30, 2007

On Hope

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G.K. Chesterton in Charles Dickens (1906): It is currently said that hope goes with youth, and lends to youth its wings of a butterfly; but...

Punker Chestertonian

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Sean Daily, editor of Gilbert Magazine , is a punk rock fan. Check out his great post about punk rock music (which he ties into Distributism...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Happy Birthday Jack

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Today is C. S. Lewis' Birthday. In honor of the day - and of the Christmas season that is upon us - here's a little passage form The...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

The Holiday Gilbert Magazine is Here

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I don't have time to blog about it now, but it's thick. Unfortunately, based on a quick glance it doesn't appear to have much Ch...
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Monday, November 26, 2007

Post Thanksgiving Thoughts

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Greetings All, Sorry to miss a couple appearances here. A handful of unconnected thoughts. Unconnected save for a morsel from the Chesterton...
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Friday, November 23, 2007

A Black Friday Atheist

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"There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less." GK At 6 a.m., I g...
Thursday, November 22, 2007

A Huckabee Clerihew

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With Mike Huckabee you get what you see: A plain-spoken man with a national plan.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Black Wednesday

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From my other blog: These guys need a Black Wednesday: Beer sales in English pubs have slumped to their lowest level since the 1930s, brewer...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

A Reader Writes

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A reader wants to know where he can find this GKC quote: “I like children that are moderately well behaved, houses that are moderately clean...
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GKC's Baptism

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I always mean to run this factoid on July 1st, but I never remember: "According to the 1874 Registry of St. George's Parish (page 4...
Friday, November 16, 2007

The Fool

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The fool of the village sat on a wall at the edge of town. He was wearing his long yellow rain coat with the black polka dots. At a distan...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Grow A Beard Month

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I just learned that November is Grow a Beard Month. Heck, and all this time living in Michigan, I thought it was just rednecks getting ready...
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Saturday, November 10, 2007

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Halloween has slipped past us as if it were the end of a children’s holiday or maybe it was like the beginning of a holiday. All I know is t...
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Friday, November 09, 2007

TGIF

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Havent had the chance to post much here. Just wanted to put out the idea that despite the decades between Chesterton and ourselves, he stand...
Thursday, November 08, 2007

A clerihew

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Belloc of Batavia imbibed a bottle of ratafia. His subsequent hangover led him to snark, "I place all the blame on Bishop Clark."
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Generations of Newspapers

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The forerunner of G.K.'s Weekly was Cecil Chesterton's New Witness , and the forerunner of the New Witness was Hilaire Belloc'...
Thursday, November 01, 2007

Belloc in "Commonweal"

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The October 26 issue of Commonweal arrived. It contains a Peter Steinfels article about Belloc. "A Catholic in the Room - Second Thoug...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

GKC at Christmas

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Something new every year. This year, it's the GKC Christmas tree ornament . It's advertised in the new edition of Gilbert Magazine ....
Monday, October 29, 2007

New Gilbert is Here

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And it's a fine-looking 10th Anniversary edition. Very well done, thick (58 pages) enhanced cover. From the letters to the editor: Four ...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007

October

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"October" by Hilaire Belloc Look, how those steep woods on the mountain's face Burn, burn against the sunset; now the cold Inv...