Chad
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Midwesterner. Trying.
You shall love your crooked neighbour / With your crooked heart
You shall love your crooked neighbour / With your crooked heart
Yo La Tengo. I like a few of their songs (quiet and loud, noisy and not), and on paper they seem like they should work for me, but for whatever reason I just can’t get into them.
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Yo La Tengo. I like a few of their songs (quiet and loud, noisy and not), and on paper they seem like they should work for me, but for whatever reason I just can’t get into them.
Have you listened to Gavin Bryars’ compositions “Jesus‘ Blood Never Failed Me Yet” and “The Sinking of the Titanic”? I came to those around the same time as the Disintegration Loops, and they occupy similar places in my head.
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Have you listened to Gavin Bryars’ compositions “Jesus‘ Blood Never Failed Me Yet” and “The Sinking of the Titanic”? I came to those around the same time as the Disintegration Loops, and they occupy similar places in my head.
The regret over missed concerts, man!
September 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The regret over missed concerts, man!
I’m now remembering that my college worked in the opposite way. Ages after anyone cared, we had concerts (different occasions) from Reel Big Fish and Jars of Clay…
September 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I’m now remembering that my college worked in the opposite way. Ages after anyone cared, we had concerts (different occasions) from Reel Big Fish and Jars of Clay…
O God, break the teeth in their mouths;
tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
Let them vanish like water that runs away;
like grass let them be trodden down and wither.
tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
Let them vanish like water that runs away;
like grass let them be trodden down and wither.
August 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
O God, break the teeth in their mouths;
tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
Let them vanish like water that runs away;
like grass let them be trodden down and wither.
tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
Let them vanish like water that runs away;
like grass let them be trodden down and wither.
Our kiddos vibe HARD with Jesus defeating death. A couple of years ago (they were 4), as we drove by a cemetery, one of them declared that he wanted Jesus to smash the cemetery (“He did and he will, buddy”)…they liked the icons of the harrowing of hell I showed them. etc.
August 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Our kiddos vibe HARD with Jesus defeating death. A couple of years ago (they were 4), as we drove by a cemetery, one of them declared that he wanted Jesus to smash the cemetery (“He did and he will, buddy”)…they liked the icons of the harrowing of hell I showed them. etc.
Ivanka Demchuk’s icon of the Transfiguration always feels to me like it has nuclear undertones…Christ shining in glory over even the blasted and scoured earth…
August 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Ivanka Demchuk’s icon of the Transfiguration always feels to me like it has nuclear undertones…Christ shining in glory over even the blasted and scoured earth…
I also used whatever edition of this was current like 20 years ago, which had an emphasis on roadside Americana and two-lane highways. No clue what it’s like now: www.roadtripusa.com
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July 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I also used whatever edition of this was current like 20 years ago, which had an emphasis on roadside Americana and two-lane highways. No clue what it’s like now: www.roadtripusa.com
We’ve had some luck with the NYT 36 Hours stuff, at least as a starting point. A different vibe than Rock Steves for sure, but it’s something. There are (or were? ours are old) bound volumes by Taschen, or they’re all on the website.
July 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We’ve had some luck with the NYT 36 Hours stuff, at least as a starting point. A different vibe than Rock Steves for sure, but it’s something. There are (or were? ours are old) bound volumes by Taschen, or they’re all on the website.
This is what I was looking for. Thanks!
June 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is what I was looking for. Thanks!
Do you have a recommendation for where to start with the Parker novels?
June 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Do you have a recommendation for where to start with the Parker novels?
Anyway I think about that passage a lot…
June 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Anyway I think about that passage a lot…
I can’t find the passage, but in one of her books, Mary Midgley quotes some computer guy going on in a *very* upsetting way about a computer intelligence that ~~wants us to birth it into the world~~, and I kept thinking, My guy, if anything ‘out there’ ever asks you to be its midwife you say NO…
June 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I can’t find the passage, but in one of her books, Mary Midgley quotes some computer guy going on in a *very* upsetting way about a computer intelligence that ~~wants us to birth it into the world~~, and I kept thinking, My guy, if anything ‘out there’ ever asks you to be its midwife you say NO…
Joe’s on W 47th for BBQ if you do one place. If you want decent-not-great BBQ l with live blues in a roadhouse type environment, give BB’s Lawnside BBQ a try.
May 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Joe’s on W 47th for BBQ if you do one place. If you want decent-not-great BBQ l with live blues in a roadhouse type environment, give BB’s Lawnside BBQ a try.
I lead a book group where I get fellow Dads to read fairly challenging texts with me. The fellas learned quickly that it was a bad idea to try and audiobook their way through Simone Weil. I look forward to some of them trying again when Kierkegaard inevitably rolls around!
May 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I lead a book group where I get fellow Dads to read fairly challenging texts with me. The fellas learned quickly that it was a bad idea to try and audiobook their way through Simone Weil. I look forward to some of them trying again when Kierkegaard inevitably rolls around!
Shirley Hazzard might be in there, too…sometimes the connections are hazy.
April 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Shirley Hazzard might be in there, too…sometimes the connections are hazy.
Oh! Well, it’s lovely. I always appreciate your posting, btw. Over the years your posts have gotten me to pick up Powell’s Dance, Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries, and (I think this was you) Bridge on the Drina, and those are all lifetime books for me now.
April 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Oh! Well, it’s lovely. I always appreciate your posting, btw. Over the years your posts have gotten me to pick up Powell’s Dance, Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries, and (I think this was you) Bridge on the Drina, and those are all lifetime books for me now.
You’ll have to pardon my ignorance here, but what is this or what’s it from? I love it…
April 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
You’ll have to pardon my ignorance here, but what is this or what’s it from? I love it…
I always associate Rosie Thomas with this crowd, too…
April 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I always associate Rosie Thomas with this crowd, too…