by Jan Bear | Jun 15, 2004 | Uncategorized
I swear it’s not schadenfreude. The author at debcentral (sorry, I’ve got my wrong glasses on and can hardly see the screen, much less read small white type against a black background) has kindly posted a gallery of her rejections. I’ve got more of...
by Jan Bear | Jun 15, 2004 | Uncategorized
If Charles Williams were blogging in the 21st century, he might sound something like Stephen Baldwin: . . . as the discarded soda and beer cans bobbed along in the water’s edge like rusting buoys in a brown foam so disgusting that it seemed even the seagulls...
by Jan Bear | Jun 11, 2004 | Uncategorized
In his Telegraph UK column, Oliver Pritchett has struck a chord for grace and elegance in language. Think how much more beautiful our airports would be if this message told us to mind our bags: “Put not thy trust in bags that are unattended, for it may be the...
by Jan Bear | Jun 10, 2004 | Uncategorized
I love Incarnation Broadcast Network, which is why it’s so maddening that it’s so charmingly wonky. (I listen by way of Live 365.) A Liturgy in fine Byzantine chant is interrupted suddenly by a whiney-voiced woman giving an honestly inspiring reflection...
by Jan Bear | Jun 9, 2004 | Uncategorized
In his New York Times piece titled A Russian Émigré Finally Gets His Russian Passport, Serge Schmemann tells about his uncle’s receipt of a Russian passport after decades of living as an emigre in France. Serge (I guess I can call him Serge, since he gave my...