Posted in Commentary, Musings on Aug 21st, 2008
C.S. Lewis was on to something…
[The demon Screwtape writes:] Noise, the grand dynamism, the audible expression of all that is exultant, ruthless and virile. Noise which alone defends us from silly qualms, despairing scruples and impossible desires. We will make the whole universe a noise in the end. We have already made great strides in […]
Posted in Commentary on Dec 13th, 2007
Someone please, please tell me this is a joke.
Posted in Commentary, Musings on Nov 15th, 2007
You know how it is. You start out to do one little thing like putting out fresh towels, and the next thing you know you’re cleaning the bathroom. As you are finishing the bathroom, suddenly the kitchen floor is the unbearably dirty and you are cleaning the kitchen.
I vacuumed yesterday, thank goodness. Otherwise I’d likely […]
Posted in Commentary on Oct 23rd, 2007
This is such a shame.
Paul and I never had a chance to eat at the restaurant, but we frequented the ice cream stand. They had the best ice cream in town.
The biggest shame of it all is the difficulty that Mr. Navette has had in being allowed to return to his place of business, […]
Posted in Commentary on Oct 20th, 2007
This is over a year old. I don’t know how I missed seeing it. Maybe it didn’t get much airtime.
This is a good demonstration of the power of makeup and special effects. Paul and I were in Barnes and Noble the other day, noticing how the actress-of-the-week on the cover of some magazine looked nothing […]
Posted in Commentary on Oct 9th, 2007
Ah yes. Spirit Week. One of the joys of living so near the high school.
One solid half hour of honking horns, screaming teenagers, drums, whistles and air horns from 7:00 to 7:30 in the morning. It was a such a great way to start our day.
A bit later, on my morning walk, I was passing […]
Posted in Commentary on Sep 28th, 2007
Did you know that the original colonists of the United States were once called the Sons of Liberty? I didn’t know that till I began to read about the Gadsden flag.
I once told Paul that when we get a house, I want to fly this flag on our property. He said that would be fine, […]
Posted in Commentary on Sep 6th, 2007
As I’ve written before, Milford has a growing crime problem that needs to be addressed. It was just graffiti and noise. It’s getting much worse, as you can read in Paul’s post today.
Our Police Chief Fred Douglas, is quoted in the local newspaper as saying there has been more violent crime in Milford this year […]
Posted in Commentary on Sep 5th, 2007
I’m reading Stephen Fry’s book, The Ode Less Travelled. Actually I’ve only read the Forward so far. But I enjoyed it so much, I forgot it was only the Forward. Anyone who can ‘use their words’ as well as Mr. Fry can, has got my full attention. And he made me laugh out loud more […]
Posted in Commentary on Aug 8th, 2007
I finally got around to reading through my local library’s blog. And while perusing the archives, this post caught my attention, and got me thinking.
In it, one of the librarians makes an interesting observation on how we jealously guard our privacy, and yet some of us are so willing (and eager) to ‘expose ourselves’ on […]
