Please, J.K. Rowling, More Stories
“The Potter stories give me hope during what I consider to be rather dark times. Please – more stories. The world so desperately needs them.”
Childhood Music, Take One
I’ve been thinking about narratives, how people create stories about themselves – even (maybe even especially) private stories. I’m not sure whether it’s our culture, or if it’s just me, but music anchors me even more than sight or touch. It rivals smell for the primal whole-self response. I had an idea to free-associate, to simply list the music I strongly recall enjoying. For almost a minute, I had the illusion that that I could make a whole list. I…
Oh, thank you, package from Amazon.com
Oh joy! Books! Books I ordered, but that now appear like a comic gift to me from Benevolent Deities Inc. Happy sigh. Ahhhhh…. two for browsing at leisure, one for candy satisfaction: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings Rob Brezsny Diva Lion says: Pronoia is a philosophy book of a most unusual stripe. It takes a lot of the ideas that Breszny has developed on the Free Will Astrology…
Bamford Comedy on Cults
Laughter, as the Reader’s Digest always said, is good medicine. I’ve really been enjoying some of Maria Bamford’s comedy. Her routines on her sister and dad never fail to crack me up. So I’m really savoring the synchronicity today as I came across this bit of hers on cults.
Laughing at Attempted Theocracy
You’ve probably heard by now (via the attorney firing scandal, Monica Goodling) that the Bush administration has appointed more than 150 graduates of Regent (Pat Robertson‘s 29-year-old bottom-tier law school) to prominent positions in the US government. No? Regent itself estimates that “approximately one out of every six Regent alumni is employed in some form of government work.” Their students aren’t interested in attending top-ranked universities which might challenge them. They want to become “God’s instrument” in changing the policies…
Patrolling JWs?
Tee hee JWs to Patrol…