On Food & Culture
This is too funny. Paul links to this spoof site that mimics exactly what most business are doing now. I find this to be the case with financial planners, managers of mattress outlets, insurance providers, most of the people I’ve had to deal with in …
I want to save this link from Mary so that I can share it with seminarians and priests who are inventing new ways of i-pod publishing. The link is the story about the seminarians who won first prize for a game design. Also, I’ve received …
This annual event has grown from a funky small parade on the north side of Houston to a major cultural event in the downtown area. thank goodness it is still funky. I’ll be there, leaving now.
Paul is listing his top 10 books on media, religion and culture and featuring favorites picks from others.
Last night I saw “The Yes Men” documentary on the Sundance channel. It is hilarious. These guys actually succeed in impersonating World Trade Organization Personnel at trade conferences. They arrive at the selected conferences and after being greeted formally, obsequiously by the conference organizers, they …
This breath of refreshing news comes from Barry Creech. Canadian musicians have organized have organized to make their voice heard about copyright and file sharing of music, and they are not in sync with the recording industries. They say that “Artists do not want to …
A few weeks ago I was going back and forth with a friend about the pleasures of wine tasting. He subsequently sent me an e-mail that helped me make the link between physical enjoyment and what we used to call one of the fruits of …
I am totally swamped with administrative work. Last week I had dinner with a friend whose son-in-law is a US soldier in Iraq. It was depressing to learn that there are long periods of blackouts in communication with him. When a US soldier dies in …
I experienced a 20 minute blackout yesterday afternoon, from 4:30 until 4:50 PM. The record-breaking heat caused problems with our grid. Houston is likely to live with blackouts throughout the summer. Privatization of electricity and gas has neither lowered costs nor improved service. When Texans …