Just got back from playing my first round at the not-yet completed disc golf course at Hedges-Boyer Park, minutes away from chez Truffin. The good news is that it’s a very well executed course. We’ll have to see how the course ages, but I think the designers did a good job of integrating the course …
Monthly Archives: June 2005
Schoolhouse Gothic in the news
Chicago Tribune news : News columnists: “He listed his serial murders and methods, not in the expected monotone, but enthusiastically, like some prideful junior college instructor in beard and suitcoat and tie. ” Sherry’s dissertation had to do with what she calls “schoolhouse gothic.” In it she writes about how the focal point of the …
Twin Peaks: Season TWO
The Digital Bits – We Know DVD!: “Also today, consider this Rumor Mill worthy, but we’ve heard from industry sources that Paramount has finally begun preparing their long-awaited DVD release of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Season Two. There’s a LOT of work involved, however, so don’t expect it to hit store shelves until sometime next …
Eco: Name of the Rose 1
Whence it is clear that in Paris, too, there was a confusion of ideas or someone who wished to confuse them for his own purposes. And this is the evil that heresy inflicts on the Christian people, obfuscating ideas and inciting all to become inquisitors to their personal benefit. For what I saw at the …
Hollywood’s Bodacious Body Parts (spoilers)
The Summer of the Overwhelming Actors’ Bodyparts continues this weekend. Jumping onstage with Haydn Christensen’s eyebrows and Angelina Jolie’s lips are Katie Holme’s nipples and Christian Bale’s mouth. Perhaps the Academy should create a new category for the Oscars this year: Best Performance by a Body Part. In all of these cases, the body parts …
Chicago Tribune: “Wal-Mart PR Exec in Ad Flap Resigns”
Chicago Tribune news : Business: What’s scarier: that Wal-Mart ran an ad featuring “a picture that showed Nazi supporters throwing books onto a fire. The text under the photo read: “Should we let government tell us what we can read? Of course not.” The ad continued, “So why should we allow local government to limit …
Dallas Willard on Morality in the University
tothesource: “Be encouraged, and encouraging about the fact that Jesus is present on the college campuses. Jesus is the smartest mind in any and every field, and in him are contained all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Jesus, despite any voices to the contrary, is the ‘Big Man On Campus’!” Rather than run screaming …
Spamalot: The Non-Musical variety
The castle of spam made an appearance at our Monty Python party on March 5. Jack Bates was the general contractor on the project. Images of the spam castle lost in conversion from Blogger. They will be restored when practicable.
The New Truffin.com
Welcome to the new (improved?) truffin.com. We’re in the midst of the long-promised overhaul, so please excuse our dust.
