So, for Christmas T&N gave me a fun little “Make Your Own Merlot” kit from Lakeview Valley Farms. I tried finding some info about them online, but all my searches keep leading my back to some company that makes candle-making, knitting, scrapbooking, and other craft kits. At any rate, the kit comes with four bottles, …
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Random headers!
Ever since last summer, I’ve been enamored with the idea of having random header images on truffin.com. So, now, some 8 or 9 months later, I finally got around to acting on that notion–and it only took 10 minutes. Well, 10 minutes to install the necessary code. Selecting, cropping, and optimizing the images certainly took …
Oscar Thoughts
So, I admit that I sat through all 3 hours and 47 minutes of Oscarcast. I have nothing substantial really to say about who won and who lost. I did find it funny how the host and presenters this year seemed to be more ambivalent this year than others about the terminology used to describe …
Reading Dante: Hell, cantos xii-xvii
After a veritable race through the first six Circles of Hell, Dante slows down to spend 6 cantos on the seventh circle of Hell, that one devoted to violence. However, as is the wont when we start categorizing things, we can never be satisfied with a single category for violence. Surely, we think, some violences …
2006 Glen Book Update
When I got home from the Glen Workshop last year, I posted a list of the books I’d bought. As we are now six months past the Glen, and as I have just received in the mail the brochure for next year’s Glen, I thought I’d see where I was in reading what I’d bought. …
Reading Dante: Hell, Cantos i-xi
Well, five weeks into the project, and I’m already a week behind. But I’m sure I can catch up during the approaching Spring Break. I wrote Dr. W that I’m finding this reading of Hell to be much less intriguing than my past reads. I don’t know if it’s Sayers’ translation or that I’ve somehow …
Snowed In With You
I’m snowed in with you I’m gonna make every effort to Be so good to you That when the snow melts away You’ll want to stay Snowed in with me –Over The Rhine Earlier this season when we were enjoying downright balmy weather in December and January, I said, “Yeah, this is nice, but we’re …
Reading Dante: Intro to Hell
I don’t know why, but I like that Dorothy Sayers chose to entitle the first volume of her translation of Dante’s Commedia Hell rather than Inferno. Certainly the two terms refer to the same place of torment, and certainly in Italian Inferno probably has the same weight as Hell, but being an English speaker, Hell …
