by Jan Bear | Mar 13, 2004 | Uncategorized
Japanese school girls are part of what may be a trend as they read a new novel on their cell phones. An entrepreneurial genius named Yoshi delivers the romantic novel about 17-year-old Ayu in small daily installments: Mobile phones can receive e-mail of up to 1,600...
by Jan Bear | Mar 12, 2004 | Uncategorized
Friend and fellow blogger Karl comments on yesterday’s post: “”And by next week most of the world will have forgotten and ‘moved on.'” It’s true, of course, “most of the world.” A lot of it never stopped in the first...
by Jan Bear | Mar 10, 2004 | Uncategorized
St. Vladimir’s Seminary assistant professor Peter C Bouteneff is so eloquent in his review of Gibson’s The Passion that I can’t let it pass unnoted. Money quote: Yet in a time when the top five grossing films were “The Passion of the...
by Jan Bear | Mar 9, 2004 | Uncategorized
The Onion Dome has more than just a twist this week. Our intrepid editor reports that Patriarch PATRIARCHUS the Nth insists that he did not have a wardrobe malfunction when he showed the Turks what he really thought of them. Our man in Moscow caught “the...
by Jan Bear | Mar 9, 2004 | Uncategorized
Here’s a good article about the contents and symbolism of the traditional Pascha basket. It’s beyond my domestic skills, but it’s a valueable resource: What’s in Our Pascha Basket by Nichola Krause: “When I was young, I never knew why we...