So, last year I played in the Vienna Open and had a good opening round and an awful second round. Actually the scores are only 2 strokes apart, but that doesn’t really display the misery of the round. This year, tournaments and my schedule haven’t been lining up well, but I found that I could …
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Time Bandit: Two Brothers, The Bering Sea, and One of the World’s Deadliest Jobs
Hillstrand, Andy, Jonathan Hillstrand, and Malcolm MacPherson. Time Bandit: Two Brothers, The Bering Sea, and One of the World’s Deadliest Jobs. New York: Ballantine, 2008. $25. I have an image in my head of Malcolm MacPherson sitting at a table surrounded by piles of audio-cassettes and notebooks, head in hands as he tries to figure …
The Enchantress of Florence
Rushdie, Salman. The Enchantress of Florence. New York: Random House, 2008. “Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.” Strangers wearing long leather coats. Mughal kings reigning over an exotic court. Imaginary idealized …
Alison Kraus, Robert Plant, and T-Bone Burnett
Fox Theatre, Detroit, 5/17/2008 “I went down to the river to pray Studying about that good ol’ way Who will wear the robe and crown Good Lord, show me the way” Imagine if you will an Angel, long golden hair, innocent radience, the fiddle on her shoulder one time sweet, one time sweaty, one time …
I’ve been to Southpark
So, here’s what I might look like were I to appear on Southpark.
T-10 Pumpkin Ale
Brewed: 10/23/2008 Knowing that the fam was getting together on Thanksgiving, I thought it might be a hoot to have some good old fashioned Pumpkin Ale, not just something with some pumpkin pie spices in it, but a real honest to goodness made with some real live pumpkin ale. I located a tasty looking recipe …
T-9: Inklings Ale
C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams used to meet in the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford. They’d share a pint and conversation about their literary works, theology, or whatever other ideas tickled their fancy. Shortly after beginning this new hobby of homebrewing, I got it into my head that it would be cool …
Review: The Strangers
Saying that Bryan Bertino’s The Strangers breaks no new ground in the horror genre shouldn’t be construed as an entirely negative thing, for it is a very well-made horror flick. The film is often restrained, and, in sharp contrast to the currently fashionable torture porn direction most contemporary horror films take, doesn’t show us much …
