by Jan Bear | Jun 26, 2004 | Uncategorized
It all started when a Dutchman named Maarten asked blogger Matt about Oregon. Douglas referred him to my site, which wasn’t particularly Oregonian at the time. But I had talked about Charles Williams, and Matt is a fan, so he mentioned this site on his. Well...
by Jan Bear | Jun 26, 2004 | Uncategorized
At GetReligion, Terry Mattingly posts this photo of a door in Constantinople (Istanbul to those who count the past 550 years as more important than the prior 1450). It’s symbolic, because it’s a door into the Phanar, the headquarters of the Ecumenical...
by Jan Bear | Jun 26, 2004 | Uncategorized
This week’s Onion Dome is posted. Alex discovers a convert who doesn’t like Way of a Pilgrim, I’ve covered this week’s lineup on The Orthodox TV Network, and Marie visits But and Mary Jane and Her and Alice at the Summer Festival at St. Serious...
by Jan Bear | Jun 25, 2004 | Uncategorized
This is the last you’ll see about the Clinton memoir here, but The Minor Fall, the Major Lift has a brilliant parody in the style of William Faulkner: Here are a few paragraphs: There was a fire in it and Vince squatting in his shirt tail in front of it,...
by Jan Bear | Jun 23, 2004 | Uncategorized
I haven’t read the best-selling grammar-advocacy book, Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, not for any reason of taste or principle, but just because it hasn’t risen to the top of my stack (it’s a tall stack). Now Louis Menand in his New Yorker review of the...