Weekend 254.0 (Evening Shadow)
A couple of gems in the journal this weekend. (1) When Business Is All Fun and Games by Julia Flynn Siler “After buying the rights to a game, Mr. Hautemont Continue Reading →
Weekend 253.2
Compare & Contrast “This is an awareness that a student cannot really get from listening, however attentively, to lectures, no matter how skilled and sympathetic the lecturer. Nor is he Continue Reading →
Weekend 253.0 (Campo dei Fiori)
(1) David Gelernter has an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal (When Modern Art Came to America) behind the paywall that warrants closer scrutiny over a cup of coffee Continue Reading →
The Eternal City
“First, the color, which was not like the color of other cities I had been in. Not concrete color, not cold glass color, not the color of overburned brick or Continue Reading →
Weekend 252.0
(1) No monk is an island but there is snow in the forecast this weekend so; (a) Wall Street Journal, (b) Wall Street Journal Magazine, (c) Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Continue Reading →
Weekend 251.0
“Like everything else at Imagineering, ideas never die; they just get put away for a while.” — It’s Kind of a Cute Story by Rolly Crump (1) It’s the same Continue Reading →
Weekend 250.0 (Where Orwell meets Nordlinger)
“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous — to poetry.” — Thomas Mann (1) The Wall Street Journal is publishing most its newest content Continue Reading →
Weekend 249.0
(1) In the New Campaign, Honda Proves that “Things Can Always Be Better” – The advertisement features a Brompton
Weekend 248.1 (Our Elites)
This is WHY I stopped writing about politics. The first example is local and the second is national BUT both demonstrate the “I got mine, you get yours” attitude of Continue Reading →
Weekend 248.0
(1) A Ruler Touched by the Divine: Though ruthless in pursuit of power, Constantine never made Christianity the official religion of the Roman state. (WSJ) On Oct. 28, 312—17 centuries Continue Reading →