I noticed this intriguing string of headlines in the “Religion” section of my local town paper this week:
“Presbyterians Plan Many Events.”
“Unitarians Set April Schedule.”
“Temple Israel Sets Upcoming Events.”
“Prince of Peace Sets New Schedule.”
Hmmm… and here the Town Council and Board of Education thought they were running things!
Here are some great quips about blogs and blogging that I sumbled across today on Millinerd.com, a witty site mainted by a Princeton art history grad student (as the banner says: “Millinerd.com – quality internet website”):
“The anatomy of a blog makes serious conversation all but impossible.” -Alan Jacobs
“Blogs are not as significant as their self-endeared curators would like to think.” -Joseph Rago
“Blogs are the crack cocaine of writing.” – Richard Starr
“Blogging is as melancholic and illusionary as Don Quixote tilting at windmills” -Michael Keren
I also love this guy’s Blogger profile:
Millinerd is a student in Princeton U’s art history PhD program. In a previous life he graduated from the same town’s Theol. Seminary. In the life before that he was a Youth Director at Media Presbyterian Church (PA). In the life before that he went to Wheaton College (IL). In the life before that he went to Haddonfield Memorial High School (NJ). In the life before that he was born and raised mostly in Jersey. In the life before that he did nothing, because Origen’s doctrine of the pre-existence of the soul was condemned in 553AD.
This is a classic mash-up of Monty Python and Halo:
From the obituary of Janet Brown, famous proprietor of a New York fashion botique that catered to the very wealthy, in today’s New York Times: “At an early age Ms. Brown showed an aptitude for shopping.”
Well. There’s hope for all us dads of preteen girls yet.
Luther, Wesley and Calvin all arrived at heaven at the same time.
Luther entered first. After 5 minutes he came out and said “I’ve got
to go back and get it right!”
Wesley was next. After 5 minutes he came out and said “I’ve got to go
back and get it right!”
Calvin then went in. After 5 minutes Jesus came out … .
A night out with the wife? A benefit dinner? The opera? No, in costume for my daughter’s 12th birthday party! I knew I could make that tux (sort of) fit! And how do you like that Photoshopped background?
Someone sent me this today:
With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is
worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost went
unnoticed last week. Larry LaPrise, the man that wrote “The Hokey Pokey”
died peacefully at the age of 93. The most traumatic part for his family
was getting him into the coffin. They put his left leg in. And then the
trouble started.
I’ve you’ve ever read legal scholarship — heaven help you — you’ll know that law review articles are heavily laden with footnotes. Nearly every sentence requires a footnote, and the collective verbiage of the footnotes sometimes outweighs the article’s main body. Anyway, I stumbled across this today, in Rosemary J. Coombe, Objects of Property and Subjects of Politics: Intellectual Property Laws and Democratic Dialogue, 69 Tex. L. Rev. 1853 (1991), a clever postmodern critique of the notion of “authorship” in copyright law:
“I will also cease to cite endless reerences in incessant footnotes,[FN22] as if an abundance of small typeface enabled us to ‘speak in the name of the real.'[FN23]
[FN 22] Well, at least I’ll try.
[FN 23] I have appropriated this phrase from Paul Stoller, who borrowed it from Ivan Brady, who appropriated it from Michel de Certeau, who discusing reading and writing as textual poaching in “The Practice of Everyday Life.”
Well, I have to do something to start driving traffic! (Courtesy of Ronald McHummer.)