by Jan Bear | Nov 9, 2003 | Uncategorized
Sunday night. Well, it’s 7:21 p.m., which is late afternoon in August, but it’s November, post-Daylight Savings Time, and night. I entered a writing contest for which the grand prize is a T-shirt, which shows how much I like the publication — a...
by Jan Bear | Nov 4, 2003 | Literary Art, Uncategorized
I enjoy bloggers with humor, who find profundity in daily events, who read the ingredients on the Can ‘O’ Rhetoric that is served up on every side. Especially good at this is James Lileks. He finds meaning in the great icons—architecture, publishing,...
by Jan Bear | Nov 2, 2003 | Reading, Uncategorized
Philip Pullman’s trilogy, His Dark Materials, has spurred thoughts about fascism and how it shows itself today, and perhaps tomorrow. The point of the trilogy is that the entire human tradition of good and evil has been turned upside down. God is evil; Satan is...