Tuesday, September 30, 2008

McCain campaign clerihew

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John McCain to spark his campaign sought help from "above" - Alaska's "Gov".
Friday, September 19, 2008

Zmirak on Chesterton

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In case you missed it, Zmirak reviews, summarizes and promotes The Everlasting Man . Great stuff. Excerpt: If you don't know the book, s...
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Monday, September 15, 2008

"Gilbert" and the Books are here!

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As is the tradition here in lovely western New York, my latest issue of Gilbert arrived long after others across the nation have received t...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

Battle of Vienna: September 11, 1683

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Vienna, as we saw, was almost taken and only saved by the Christian army under the command of the King of Poland on a date that ought to be ...
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Young Chesterton Chronicles

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There was a time when I would’ve received advanced notice and a sample copy: The Young Chesterton Chronicles . It came out in March, but I j...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008

The Books Are Here! The Books Are Here!

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The Ignatius sale spurred me to buy some books I coveted (in a non-sinful way, of course) but could not justify purchasing: Volumes 29-34 of...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

SAY HALLELUJAH

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Usually the Republicans don’t develop a sense of humor until late September of an election year and mostly drop it after the last vote on No...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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Garrison Keillor is my favorite liberal and here is why .
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

The Real Iron Chef

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I once heard a metaphor for prayer that I think Gilbert would agree with. “There are three types of prayer, microwave, oven baking and crock...
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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Chesterton in a horror novel?

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I have been working on a horror novel (working title: "Swedenborg"). I bring it up here because in one section I will be talking a...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Collected Works voIs 29-34 (ILN articles)

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available right now for $5 per book as part of an Ignatius Press sale ! h/t to Marcel @ Mary's Aggies , a lucid writer and engaging spea...
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Saturday, August 09, 2008

Kewl Science

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"Science can analyze a pork-chop, and say how much of it is phosphorus and how much is protein; but science cannot analyze any man'...
Thursday, August 07, 2008

Catholic Convert Poets

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Liam over at Sententiae et Clamores ( http://trepanatus.blogspot.com/ ) began a discussion July 23 about Catholic convert poets (talk about...
Monday, August 04, 2008

Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author whose books chronicled the horrors of dictator Josef Stalin's slave labor...
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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Not quite Chestertonian

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Okay, my excuse is that Chesterton would have known Gilbert and Sullivan's work, and would likely have appreciated Tom Lehrer's clev...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

The Matrix Part 4

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Plot line: Agent Smith finally penetrates Zion by convincing everyone he is the ‘The One'. When I heard Obama’s speech in Berlin he talk...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Ross Douthat in The Atlantic re: Gopnik

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In The Atlantic Ross Douthat mildly defends G.K. Chesterton against Gopnik 's charges published by the New Yorker . Earlier posts abou...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

ITN: GKC in NYT, Most Joyful and Dreadful Thing

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Tom Vanderbilt mentions GKC in this weekend's NYT "Sunday Book Review". The review is of Spiral Jetta by Erin Hogan and he ...
Friday, July 25, 2008

Calling for Clerihews @ The Guardian Book Blog

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Billy Mills, blogging about books at the Guardian , has a post today about writing Clerihews ( link ). Also present in his post is the above...

Need a Vanilla Patch?

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'Americans," G.K. Chesterton once said, "are the people who describe their use of alcohol and tobacco as vices." He did ...
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