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The Collapse: The Blizzard and The Damage Done
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Andrew Santella's entirely unnecessary weblog. Thursday, February 3, 2011. The Blizzard and The Damage Done. Over on Facebook everyone seems to be posting their blizzard photos. The enormous snowdrifts. The bizarre icicle formations. The cars hopelelssly immobilized and abandoned. It made me think of a scene in The Moviegoer. I’m not willing to come out so forcefully in favor of catastrophe. But it's true that you don't see so many pictures on Facebook of ordinary Tuesday afternoons. Maybe ...I’m a...
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The Collapse: 09/01/2010 - 10/01/2010
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Andrew Santella's entirely unnecessary weblog. Friday, September 24, 2010. Talking with David Brooks. Last week, I interviewed New York Times. Columnist David Brooks in advance of a lecture he's giving at leafy Elmhurst College on October 1. The Q and A- which focuses on religion and Brooks' intellectual hero (and Barack Obama's), the mid-century theologian Reinhold Niebuhr- is here. Here's Brooks on church-shopping:. And here he is on religious literacy in the U.S.:. Links to this post. Thursday, Septem...
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The Collapse: 02/01/2010 - 03/01/2010
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Andrew Santella's entirely unnecessary weblog. Tuesday, February 23, 2010. My mini-profile of Otis Moss III, the pastor of Chicago’s Trinity UCC—you might remember it as “Obama’s church” from the 2008 campaign—is online here. Moss likes to quote Mos Def and Common, and one of my favorite exchanges came when I asked him about calling the apostle Peter “a thug” in one of his sermons. He said: “He cut off someone’s ear! That’s acting like a thug! Links to this post. Wednesday, February 17, 2010. Odd as it w...
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The Collapse: 01/01/2010 - 02/01/2010
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Andrew Santella's entirely unnecessary weblog. Wednesday, January 27, 2010. Walker Percy: The Movie. Just in time for my annual re-reading. Of Walker Percy's The Moviegoer. Comes news, from Commonweal Magazine's blog. Of a new documentary film about Percy by Win Riley. The trailer. Includes bits of interviews with Richard Ford, Robert Coles and Jay Tolson. Links to this post. Tuesday, January 26, 2010. Links to this post. Thursday, January 7, 2010. Now comes yet more vindication, in the form of this piece.
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The Collapse: Walt Whitman Prepares to Drive His Family South for Spring Break
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Andrew Santella's entirely unnecessary weblog. Friday, March 25, 2011. Walt Whitman Prepares to Drive His Family South for Spring Break. Out of the driveway endlessly driving,. Out of the garage, the annual trek! To the beach we drive! To palm tree,. To humidity and sand. And that musty, slightly cockroachy smell. Of the slightly cockroachy smell, I sing! Of the smell of motel rooms not properly ventilated,. Of rooms where someone has recently smoked! Or recently done god knows what. It is in our clothes.
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The Collapse: 08/01/2010 - 09/01/2010
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Andrew Santella's entirely unnecessary weblog. Monday, August 23, 2010. I’ve never had much use for hobbies, unless you count worrying, which I’ve always considered more of an avocation. Whatever you call it, I’ve been practicing it for as long as I can remember, which give me a kind of precedence over the bandwagon jumpers who waited for the global economic meltdown before they started worrying in earnest. A piece by Michael Moyer. Why all the apocalyptic dread? Any real worrier knows that worrying abou...
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The Collapse: 02/01/2011 - 03/01/2011
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Andrew Santella's entirely unnecessary weblog. Friday, February 4, 2011. If you just can't get enough Super Bowl-related content: GQ.com is re-running my retrospective of the 1985 Chicago Bears. This is the piece for which I had to telephone William "Refrigerator" Perry at home at 4 am Also: the piece on which I learned that even Mike Ditka's wife calls him "Coach.". Links to this post. Thursday, February 3, 2011. The Blizzard and The Damage Done. It made me think of a scene in The Moviegoer. Where a vio...
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The Collapse: Recommended Non-Reading
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Andrew Santella's entirely unnecessary weblog. Friday, March 11, 2011. I just finished my annual Mardi Gras read of Walker Percy’s novel The Moviegoer. About which you can find more here. In honor of the occasion, here's an incomplete list of books I might have read if I hadn’t been busy reading The Moviegoer. Van Halen: A Visual History. Morey Amsterdam’s Benny Cooker Crock Book For Drinkers. Chicken Soup for the Soul: NASCAR. Thirty Years of the Rockford Files. Women Who Love Cats Too Much.
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The Collapse: (Probably Not) Coming Attractions
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Andrew Santella's entirely unnecessary weblog. Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Probably Not) Coming Attractions. The following film projects, having halted production, will not be coming to a theater near you any time soon. The King’s Leech. Dude, She Digs My Beard. Seth Rogen, playing a fleshy and unkempt underachiever grown weary of fending off the advances of intelligent and stunningly attractive women of his own age, embarks on a troubled relationship with an intriguing older woman who may be displaying sig...
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The Collapse: 12/01/2010 - 01/01/2011
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Andrew Santella's entirely unnecessary weblog. Thursday, December 30, 2010. The Ten Best Existential Crises of 2010. Everyone’s a critic. And every critic, at this time of year, has to publish a best-of-the-year list. So here is a list of the ten most profound existential crises I experienced in 2010. Check back tomorrow for “The Ten Best Sandwiches I Made in 2010.”). 2 I wake one morning in August to find only decaffeinated coffee in the house. Why do we go on trying? 6 Unable to choose between a purple...
