On a Year of Vegetarianism
November 21, 2008
On October 29, 2008, I ate meat for the first time.
Archive for November 2008
November 14, 2008
November 14, 2008
What Ghosts Teach:Oliver Sacks’s Awakenings, Part I By Rebecca Tirrell Talbot What could being asleep for fifty years, and then awakening, teach a person about life? Boffo Socko Jaco By Kevin Gosa Bassist Jaco Pastorius’ seminal work, The Birthday Concert. Belief in the Bones By Alisa Harris Rationalism, mystery, and forensic science – in prime [...]
What Ghosts Teach:
Oliver Sacks’s Awakenings, Part I
November 14, 2008
Book available on Amazon.com. What could being asleep for fifty years, and then awakening, teach a person about life? You might tell me to Google Washington Irving or the Brothers Grimm and see what lessons they intended, but I am dead serious when I ask this question. I ask it because in the early part [...]
Belief in the Bones
November 14, 2008
Bones and Booth show the tension between the rationalistic worldview and a view that places some faith in mystery. Whose view wins in the end?
Boffo Socko Jaco
November 14, 2008
They are one with their instrument. There isn’t a point at which the man stops and his instrument begins. This was Jaco.
November 7, 2008
November 7, 2008
Choosing Creation Over Destruction By Matt Cox A brief profile of the father of video games, Shigeru Miyamoto. Chocolate Tasting By Daniel Nayeri Want to knock your significant other’s socks off? 3191: A Year of Beautiful, Ordinary Mornings By Jenni Simmons A long-distance friendship spawns an intimate photographic examination of daily life.
Choosing Creation Over Destruction
November 7, 2008
At a youthful 55 years old, Miyamoto’s face still lights up at the sight of innovation and the art of the video game.
Chocolate Tasting
November 7, 2008
So what are we talking here, like, four months till Valentine’s Day? Worst holiday of the year for pastry chefs.
3191:
A Year of Beautiful, Ordinary Mornings
November 7, 2008
Lord knows I spend too much time on the Internet. There’s Gmail, Facebook, Etsy, thought-provoking online publications (ahem), an endless string of inspiring blogs, Flickr, Goodreads, Pandora, and iChat, to admit to only a few. I mean, the Internet’s other name – the World Wide Web – is just that; while visiting one online destination, [...]