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Ladder on Wheels: December 2008
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Your source for the pseudo-intellectual and the middlebrow. Wednesday, December 31, 2008. F Buttons, "Bright Tomorrow" (#5). Andrew Hung/Benjamin John Power). This band from Bristol with a terrible (and unpronounceable, at least on this blog that potential employers might see) name nevertheless creates some of the most oddly beautiful music I've ever heard. Their debut LP, Street Horrrsing. Probably doesn't contain more than three chords (and quite possibly fewer! Tuesday, December 30, 2008. Incidentally...
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Ladder on Wheels: April 2009
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Your source for the pseudo-intellectual and the middlebrow. Thursday, April 30, 2009. What's Good for the Nation Is Good for the Soul. In an odd twist of fate (and my very convoluted and complicated self-mandated reading schedule), I ended up in the middle of Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Gay Science. And Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. According to Aristotle, the absolute good is that which is pursued for its own sake—it’s the ultimate good, that which, in pursuing it, we pursue all other goods&...Certainly...
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Ladder on Wheels: Post of the Year
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Your source for the pseudo-intellectual and the middlebrow. Thursday, December 31, 2009. Post of the Year. According to my blog tracker, my most popular post is the two part "Deep in the Big Black Heart of the Sunshine State,". About the deep existential darkness in Disney/Pixar's best movies. It wasn't even close, and it's all thanks to John Frost over at The Disney Blog. Who promoted the posts. Frost's generous promotion was followed by cross-posts on The Journal of Cartoon Overanalyzations. I am a thi...
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Ladder on Wheels: The Christian Humanist #10: Literary Hell
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Your source for the pseudo-intellectual and the middlebrow. Wednesday, January 27, 2010. The Christian Humanist #10: Literary Hell. It should be up on Feedburner. And iTunes sometime this afternoon; in the meantime, here's the show notes. Also, please visit the new. Christian Humanist Podcast website. Response to listener email and the CWC. Aeneas in the underworld. Beowulf fights Grendel’s mother. Do we need to make Beowulf. Into a theological allegory? Hel as a person. Tactile vs. Abstract. Trans Richa...
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Ladder on Wheels: The Christian Humanist #9: Pat Robertson, Haiti, and Suffering
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Your source for the pseudo-intellectual and the middlebrow. Friday, January 22, 2010. The Christian Humanist #9: Pat Robertson, Haiti, and Suffering. You can get it at www.volsounds.com. Highly recommended. (And yes, that's Emmylou Harris singing along.). The creek done rose. Pat Robertson and the Haitian Earthquake. Robertson as a boon to mediocre seminary students with blogs. Michial gets amused; David gets irate. Why the world needs more David Grubbses. The Veracity of Robertson’s Claim. CS Lewis on s...
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Ladder on Wheels: Quare Me Repulisti, et Quare Tristis Incedo
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Your source for the pseudo-intellectual and the middlebrow. Friday, January 1, 2010. Quare Me Repulisti, et Quare Tristis Incedo. If you’re looking for the first American masterpiece of the Modernist era, look no further than Sherwood Anderson’s 1919 short-story collection (really a loose novel more than anything), Winesburg, Ohio. Manages to do something that most of the fiction of the era can’t—which is to say that it’s both. Updike’s essay for the. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am a third-year...
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Ladder on Wheels: September 2009
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Your source for the pseudo-intellectual and the middlebrow. Monday, September 28, 2009. There's Seven People Dead on a South Dakota Farm. I’d never read Charles Brockden Brown before I was forced to for my comprehensive exams. I’d always thrown his Gothic novels in with the short fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, and so my distaste for Poe always kept me away from him. In last night’s fit of insomnia (it’s strangely appropriate), however, I read through the entirety of Wieland. The idea at the center of Wieland.
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Ladder on Wheels: July 2009
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Your source for the pseudo-intellectual and the middlebrow. Tuesday, July 21, 2009. It's been awhile since I posted, and it'll likely be awhile longer, as I'm pretty intellectually and emotionally spent right now, but I did want to call readers' attention to this article. From the Chronicle of Higher Education. Here's the main thrust:. A study published in the April issue of British Educational Research Journal. I realized that pretty quickly. My first semester of teaching, I used a lot of technology...
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Ladder on Wheels: November 2009
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Your source for the pseudo-intellectual and the middlebrow. Tuesday, November 24, 2009. Episode #5.1: More on New Calvinism and Emergent. It's just me and Nathan Gilmour in this week's short episode, responding to criticism about last week. Please pardon our technical difficulties. How this show will work. Nathan’s blog addressing Sam Mulberry’s email. Emergent and Poststructuralist Philosophy. Is poststructuralism “out” in the Academy? Michial gets cynical; Nathan gets sanguine. More on Celebrity Culture.
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