by Jan Bear | Mar 26, 2004 | Uncategorized
Harper’s Magazine gives a helpful list of “theme funerals” (“staging areas”) for that loved one whose identity was something outside himself. Was he a pilot? Rent a hangar at the local airport and have local pilots fly out of the hangar...
by Jan Bear | Mar 26, 2004 | Uncategorized
Lena, the Chernobyl ghost town biker, has brought up her site again with more pictures, sharper design, and the same eerie and compelling story. The photo shown here is cropped down from one of hers. I picked this up from The Politburo Diktat.
by Jan Bear | Mar 25, 2004 | Uncategorized
My friend Jenny Schroedel’s new book is out from St Vladmir’s Seminary Press. The Blackbird’s Nest is the story of St. Kevin, who spent Lent like a tree, holding up a blackbird’s nest. I’ve read earlier versions of the...
by Jan Bear | Mar 25, 2004 | Uncategorized
Andrew Stephen Damick tells why I became Orthodox in “Notes towards a Definition of Orthodox Christian English Literature,” for the Fellowship of St. Caedmon. It sounds weird, maybe heretical, even to me, converting on the basis of a literary...
by Jan Bear | Mar 23, 2004 | Uncategorized
Joe Strupp at Editor & Publisher relates how The Onion almost won a Pulitzer for its 9-11 coverage: The longtime editor of The Philadelphia Daily News was on the committee choosing finalists in the commentary category in 2002 when a submission from The Onion, the...
by Jan Bear | Mar 21, 2004 | Uncategorized
Brain scientist Barry L. Beyerstein breaks the bad news in “Do we really use only 10 percent of our brains?” All told, the foregoing suggests that there is no cerebral spare tire waiting to be mounted in service of one’s grade point average, job...