tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-146397402024-03-07T03:17:09.863-05:00sententiae et clamoresLiterature, Religion, Politics, Rants, Murmurs, and Medieval HistoryLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.comBlogger289125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-89356409599401833112015-07-04T14:14:00.000-04:002015-07-04T14:14:45.375-04:00<img height="315" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Giotto_-_Scrovegni_-_-27-_-_Expulsion_of_the_Money-changers_from_the_Temple.jpg" width="320" /><br />
<i>Jesus chasing the money changers out the temple, by Giotto. Do you know what Jesus never got angry about? Same-sex marriage. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_poverty_and_wealth#/media/File:Giotto_-_Scrovegni_-_-27-_-_Expulsion_of_the_Money-changers_from_the_Temple.jpg">Image credit</a></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I have been absent from the blog because of the craziness of life, but lately I've been feeling the need to write a bit more about the things that have been circling around in my head. I cam across <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/for-the-glory-of-god-entire-staff-in-tenn-county-clerks-office-resigns-over-same-sex-marriage/">this article</a> on Facebook about Tennessee county clerks resigning rather than issue licenses for same-sex marriages, which resulted in the following rant:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">All the injustice in the world, all the war, the poverty, the racism, the environmental degradation, domestic violence, child abuse, the abject suffering, and THIS is the issue that people decide to take a stand on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I've said it before. There is no "biblical definition of marriage." Same-sex marriage is not discussed at all in the Bible, because it was not a cultural possibility at the time the Bible was written. There are a handful of condemnations of gay sex, but either in the context of Levitical law, superseded in Christian belief by the New Law (which is why these ignorant bigots didn't resign <i>en masse</i> when they served ham sandwiches at the office party), or in the context of rape (Sodom and Gomorrah), or, in the epistles of Paul, in the context of "sexual immorality," that is, classed with adultery and fornication and not in the context of committed relationships. It's very weak soup to make the center of your religious conviction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">More importantly for these "Christians" is that same-sex behavior of any kind is not brought up once in the Gospels. Jesus has nothing to say about either sex or marriage between two people of the same gender. You know what he did condemn? Divorce, and quite clearly (Mark 10:2-12). So why did these clerks not resign when told to issue certificates of divorce?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I think that there is a very weak case for Christian condemnation of same-sex marriage, but even if you do believe there is and you're Christian, don't you think that it's a rather mild problem in relation to the greater suffering in the world that Jesus did condemn? Even if Jesus did mention divorce once (reported in Matthew and Mark and, it should be said, in its own context before stated as an article of law), he spent much more time decrying hatred, poverty, the dangers of wealth , and (ahem) hypocrisy. Maybe Christians should focus on those issues first.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Even if your Pharisaical and even Talibanish understanding of Christianity makes you focus on things like gay marriage and seeing the splinter in your neighbor's eye instead of the beam in your own, the answer is simple: don't marry someone of the same gender. Leave the rest of us alone. And if you're really interested in "the glory of God," maybe you should read His word with more intelligence and understanding, bringing to it fewer cultural taboos that have little to do with the actual text.</span><br />
<br />Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-81909131210908939712014-08-19T21:13:00.000-04:002014-08-19T21:14:15.470-04:00Ferguson<div class="Body1">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I've decided to dust off the bog for this one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For some
deeply masochistic reason, I've been doing something I don't usually do – read
comments on public Facebook posts. Not every detail of the Mike Brown case is
entirely clear, but the facts as we have them make it very difficult to see the
cop as anything but guilty. Guilty, I'm pretty sure, of murder in the first
degree but at least manslaughter. The actions of the the Ferguson PD – leaving
the body in the sun for hours, smearing Mike Brown's character with information
that is questionable and is certainly not pertinent to the case – have
been clearly despicable. Still there are a number of people that have their own
set of dubious "facts" and a passionate, if sick, conclusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">First, they
take it as gospel truth that Mike Brown attacked the Darren Wilson, although
there is absolutely no evidence for that except for the testimony of the killer
himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Second, they
have fallen hook, line, and sinker for the Ferguson PD's race baiting and
proclaim to the high heavens that Brown was a "thief," "thug,"
and weirdly, a "felon."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Third, They
are deeply attached to the idea that a white policeman could not kill a black
youth even mistakenly, let alone murderously. Even if Mike Brown had committed
a crime and attacked the cop, there is still no justification for his killing
(unless you accept the fantasy, against several eyewitnesses, that a wounded
kid would charge an armed cop). Usually though, they leap directly from the
alleged theft or the alleged attack to a simple justification for the killing: "He
was a thief..." "That's what you get when you're a thug..."
"Did he think he could just attack a cop and get away with it?" In
the end, there is a simple process that goes like this: black kid + alleged
crime + alleged marijuana use + rap,
"gang signs," etc. = an irredeemable criminal who deserves nothing
better than to be shot dead on the street.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">All this
about an eighteen-year-old kid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This is what
racism is about and this is what the protests in Ferguson are about. The Mike
Brown murder is just another element in a long line of devaluing the
citizenship and the very lives of African-Americans, something that apparently
is a regular occurrence in Ferguson. It seems that a substantial sector of
white America is complicit in this process, the deep, dark dismissal of the
humanity of millions of their fellow citizens.</span><span lang="en-US" style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #0400;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A couple of links: This<a href="https://storify.com/miniver/mike-brown-facts-and-dog-whistles-from-shaunking"> series of tweets</a> explains why the case against Wilson is s strong, and how the appeals to racism work. <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/08/Reparations-For-Ferguson/376098/">Ta-Nahisi Coates on Ferguson</a>.</span></div>
Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-34610433928436181332013-09-22T13:51:00.001-04:002013-09-22T16:07:09.063-04:00Miniature StoryI decided to contact the exorcist once I realized I had given the entire lecture in Akkadian, an ancient Mesopotamian language I do not know. I wished to consult him not only on my behalf, but also on that of my students, all of whom dutifully took notes in cuneiform.Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-42881474949019015752012-12-17T14:18:00.001-05:002012-12-18T16:11:24.676-05:00After mourning, actionThis was something I posted on Facebook, but I'm putting it here to give it a more permanent home and to perhaps breathe some life into the blog again:<br />
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"The NRA is a mighty thing. But as mighty as it is, it is no match for the political power of the 'parent lobby' in this country. If we parents ever decided to take a stand between our children and the gun lobby, we would perhaps be shielding thousands of our kids from the deadly bullets yet to come."<br />
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If this is like other shootings, all of us will eventually abandon our rage and return to our day to day life, abandon this issue for others, and meanwhile the NRA will be on the hill and their zombies will emailing, writing letters, and calling their representatives every time the most innocuous gun legislation comes up for consideration. The politicians, both Republican and Democratic, will feel that it is not worth it to take on the gun lobby. And so it will continue until another twisted tortured young man decides to see if he can do even worse than Newton. And then we will wring out hands again and say, "why"?<br />
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Unless we grab this moment. The gun nuts know this is a dangerous moment for them. The NRA took down its Facebook page. Pro-gun senators were afraid to go on the Sunday talk shows (is it a surprise these people are cowards?). Let's keep them on the defensive. Let's be there when legislation comes up. Let's get the facts out there. Let's let those people who are not gun nuts but just misinformed know the real facts. Let's dominate the discourse by our numbers, our passion, our knowledge of the truth and what's at stake, and our love of our children. Let's save our country from the bloody gun culture which has soaked our homes, schools, and streets in innocent blood. <br />
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Who's with me? <br />
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Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-1299005339667176162012-02-27T13:04:00.003-05:002012-02-27T13:06:20.547-05:00SHAME<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVfZ2lwo3OSqIgnWyi4XDLMpunA5cs6-x5BsUx7Qw1ZKFvqyTSAyhMMkcTsr4wVSjocpbm6T0wg8Cs6HaRnJz0hWDvggc-CjO6w4Az9uoUDn_nppWOJcqKNr2J1WJCBN74QIWlcQ/s1600/monkeysonstilts.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 387px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVfZ2lwo3OSqIgnWyi4XDLMpunA5cs6-x5BsUx7Qw1ZKFvqyTSAyhMMkcTsr4wVSjocpbm6T0wg8Cs6HaRnJz0hWDvggc-CjO6w4Az9uoUDn_nppWOJcqKNr2J1WJCBN74QIWlcQ/s400/monkeysonstilts.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713878046196203570" border="0" /></a>I said I would blog. I have not blogged. But here is an image from a medieval manuscript of monkeys on stilts (which I found googling images for "medieval illumination shame").Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-32734070604414641962012-02-13T15:03:00.003-05:002012-02-17T12:26:23.240-05:00a return?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvq5cuRabHvWtaXS99kpab0yHithlMnPi0GYYatoVjKXKbHPUE94qtk15MVIXBefWiOy08TAtKF_IBWqFyFch3KgF2Qn2TWv8zixGIZQM82GcPrpLRj4xYO4yAXzsmveaJLdKCjA/s1600/dav_oath.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvq5cuRabHvWtaXS99kpab0yHithlMnPi0GYYatoVjKXKbHPUE94qtk15MVIXBefWiOy08TAtKF_IBWqFyFch3KgF2Qn2TWv8zixGIZQM82GcPrpLRj4xYO4yAXzsmveaJLdKCjA/s400/dav_oath.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710157050577833298" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Liam and some others vowing to blog more.<br /><br /></span>It has been almost two years since my last blog post, and that one was only a complaint about being busy and a photo of a stave church. It's quite something that I found the time to blog in grad school yet can't now. Of course, when it comes to devouring one's time, babies win, and so that's a factor. I also have fallen into the general trend of using twitter and facebook more and more -- we gradually reduce our expression into more manageable bits, and some day soon I know twitter will be replaced by a site that limits us to grunts and monosyllables. Yet there are other factors. Still, let me vow to blog just a bit more. I promise something in the next week.Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-82097532659388713712010-04-21T18:30:00.002-04:002010-04-21T18:33:24.000-04:00I am so busy...... but <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stave_churches">Stave churches</a> are so cool:<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEuNHcmomGwCh12brZKjjkYNw_3FGWxAGA-OkfbQhIXVWRLex8g5eASBEjDTUF2wkE6uOLlJeaju4MOoDGflLRmWZIG4RGsC7yI1V7ii1c9dazGAzi_m3AsWL62-nItlGZ9N_35A/s1600/Borgund_stave_church.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEuNHcmomGwCh12brZKjjkYNw_3FGWxAGA-OkfbQhIXVWRLex8g5eASBEjDTUF2wkE6uOLlJeaju4MOoDGflLRmWZIG4RGsC7yI1V7ii1c9dazGAzi_m3AsWL62-nItlGZ9N_35A/s400/Borgund_stave_church.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462722341275769682" border="0" /></a>Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-70607179424650008962009-12-28T12:13:00.006-05:002009-12-28T12:44:55.601-05:00The Feast of the Holy Innocents<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijCnGibAJxqxDjOhd-NXlOsA8XfwtAAEcNG8iqpR0GnETe2CZmBQ9MR9Fm3P4qfNlIwhu2R0erVqxAHcQuopVFVc1plwh9A0JVigX-AjEsT15DbBQrFZ42IuBGU-AjYmNPTtVOrw/s1600-h/Cornelis_van_Haarlem_-_Bethlehemse_kindermoord.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijCnGibAJxqxDjOhd-NXlOsA8XfwtAAEcNG8iqpR0GnETe2CZmBQ9MR9Fm3P4qfNlIwhu2R0erVqxAHcQuopVFVc1plwh9A0JVigX-AjEsT15DbBQrFZ42IuBGU-AjYmNPTtVOrw/s400/Cornelis_van_Haarlem_-_Bethlehemse_kindermoord.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420337348224896098" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_van_Haarlem">Cornelis van Haarlam</a>, Massacre of the Holy Innocents, 1590</span>.<br /><br />Today is the feast of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Innocents">Holy Innocents</a>, commemorating Herod's massacre of infants as described in <a href="http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/matthew/matthew2.htm#v16">Matthew 2:16-18</a>. I just wanted to share a few artworks on the subject.<br /><br />The theme seemed to appeal to late Renaissance and Baroque artists because of the treatment of violence against the innocent and the drama inherent in the tortured faces of the mothers who try to defend or mourn their slaughtered children. I remember being mesmerized by a set of polychrome figures on the theme by <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Gines">José Ginés</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Academia_de_Bellas_Artes_de_San_Fernando">Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando</a> in Madrid. The series, given the graphically Spanish title <span style="font-style: italic;">Degollación de los Inocentes</span> ("the throat-cutting of the innocents"), got its power from the naked brutality of the slaughter and the crazed, twisted faces of the women as they tried in vain to either hide their children or fight off the soldiers -- a moment described also by Shakespeare in <a href="http://shakespeare.mit.edu/henryv/henryv.3.3.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Henry V</span></a>:<br /><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" name="38">Your naked infants spitted upon pikes,</a><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" name="39">Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused</a><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" name="40">Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry</a><br /><a name="41"><span style="font-style: italic;">At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen</span>.<br /><br />After extensive googling that resulted not only in the frustration of failure to obtain results but also repeated Mozilla-crashing, I was able to to find only one figure from the series, but it should give you a feel for it:<br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmoYK1N4-8KYGPs48G2a2DZWqZBeaIGNoAraOP_stn_7gZiGyD4LAZbbDV6Qudet4HKgVtrDU1GhyphenhyphenR2zF3w7F0vednOYU9XMZt7NgLOD1p7BrvxgjZIN91rg8SCK8LQAGMWcDrdQ/s1600-h/Jose+Gines+degollacion+de+los+inocentes.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 236px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmoYK1N4-8KYGPs48G2a2DZWqZBeaIGNoAraOP_stn_7gZiGyD4LAZbbDV6Qudet4HKgVtrDU1GhyphenhyphenR2zF3w7F0vednOYU9XMZt7NgLOD1p7BrvxgjZIN91rg8SCK8LQAGMWcDrdQ/s400/Jose+Gines+degollacion+de+los+inocentes.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420337342380577922" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />And here are some other versions:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix__R4qkkxTUMgNpBazv25WzxlRazooI5ETFv8Va0GujmAVVKk5VvfCW6VzG9OWid4tVaV-RSK_OU44WF3HOESqAImDO9gUwmB5IZQe3YYoQY1FVH-Bh5wU6T0AfOXLiBF7YSj3Q/s1600-h/caravaggio+innocents.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 253px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix__R4qkkxTUMgNpBazv25WzxlRazooI5ETFv8Va0GujmAVVKk5VvfCW6VzG9OWid4tVaV-RSK_OU44WF3HOESqAImDO9gUwmB5IZQe3YYoQY1FVH-Bh5wU6T0AfOXLiBF7YSj3Q/s400/caravaggio+innocents.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420337350816149586" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/r/reni/1/innocent.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Guido Reni, 1611</span></a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidK7_4lsq9XrlBm4QV1GvsF2f7Snzk14f2A-MYGbgd9Qaku8l35IzdrChSNUmXHq5b3OCeClGSbhvfQVD8gS55ZBDeKojEvGdvvXM9pmuuitbYJQDmBvNiiJuQBqov8S046_3hRQ/s1600-h/rubens+massacre+of+the+holy+innocents.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidK7_4lsq9XrlBm4QV1GvsF2f7Snzk14f2A-MYGbgd9Qaku8l35IzdrChSNUmXHq5b3OCeClGSbhvfQVD8gS55ZBDeKojEvGdvvXM9pmuuitbYJQDmBvNiiJuQBqov8S046_3hRQ/s400/rubens+massacre+of+the+holy+innocents.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420337341401912818" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.artinthepicture.com/paintings/Peter_Paul_Rubens/Massacre-of-the-Innocents/">Peter Paul Rubens</a><span style="font-style: italic;">, also 1611</span>.Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-80139746340799948102009-12-24T21:08:00.001-05:002009-12-24T21:08:50.526-05:00Merry Christmas Everyone!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU_uQWmjmNgoW6MoS7yquetCA7nOlp30BADnNvTxvJLdTasaI8ILUalPtvIJf2jUHRuJPy4KlFQfFlPEM16Z9I3u5qglFVG51WbbvTQQjlj2Jckq03LPQ7vtYwnB0sD_O-2MKbJQ/s1600-h/10788-no-17-scenes-from-the-life-of-chri-giotto-di-bondone.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 393px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU_uQWmjmNgoW6MoS7yquetCA7nOlp30BADnNvTxvJLdTasaI8ILUalPtvIJf2jUHRuJPy4KlFQfFlPEM16Z9I3u5qglFVG51WbbvTQQjlj2Jckq03LPQ7vtYwnB0sD_O-2MKbJQ/s400/10788-no-17-scenes-from-the-life-of-chri-giotto-di-bondone.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418989966410904050" border="0" /></a>Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-89835191213074677102009-12-04T08:48:00.006-05:002009-12-04T08:59:07.742-05:00random cool picture<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5KrcgNoZDl2Cea6TORbbQ1TdwUgfF2m7XABG0OUdoOobk_fs3CXgS7HQLLlKfQvWTso_MF68KF85f-06_NpEtGubp1yBWJQ2S-c0_NgW5Ku6goBGQ0BQoWUx1fRkoWM22MV4NaA/s1600-h/Melozzo_da_Forl%C3%AC_001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 336px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5KrcgNoZDl2Cea6TORbbQ1TdwUgfF2m7XABG0OUdoOobk_fs3CXgS7HQLLlKfQvWTso_MF68KF85f-06_NpEtGubp1yBWJQ2S-c0_NgW5Ku6goBGQ0BQoWUx1fRkoWM22MV4NaA/s400/Melozzo_da_Forl%C3%AC_001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411377551599888450" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page"><span style="font-style: italic;">fons veritatis</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Sixtus_IV" title="Pope Sixtus IV">Pope Sixtus IV</a> appoints Bartolomeo Platina prefect of the Vatican Library, fresco by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melozzo_da_Forl%C3%AC" title="Melozzo da Forlì">Melozzo da Forlì</a>, c. 1477 (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Museums" title="Vatican Museums">Vatican Museums</a>).<br /><br />Teaching has rendered me with no time to blog -- perhaps I'll sharpen the cyberquill during the holidays. Meanwhile, this is a pretty picture (I love the background -- <a href="http://trepanatus.blogspot.com/2008/11/two-pictures.html">I have mentioned before</a> how much I love architecture in paintings). I found it on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeo_Platina"><span style="font-style: italic;">fons veritatis</span> page on Bartolomeo Platina</a>, Renaissance humanist and author of the first printed cookbook, <span style="font-style: italic;">De honestate voluptate et valetudine</span>. The cookbook was what I was checking on, as some of the recipes have been adapted in the <a href="http://www.godecookery.com/friends/friends.htm">Historical Cookery webpage</a> (h/t <a href="http://medievalist3.blogspot.com/">Jeffrey Smith</a>). So here it is, it's very nice.Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-61256256697050961382009-11-29T17:02:00.001-05:002009-11-29T17:04:16.534-05:00this is why I always feed her when she demands food...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSxDifzBapXjvmJSh9VDr1LNAW8AErtWUWY32Q2f5D1WDI5AB7-Qos_X9-nx21atWA9hm9xAOUkqqvXn4USYhtfsli0uOvv0V3LB9gQBvXDjx9tgtb6g6JPqK3AUj4tQvo18zCwA/s1600/Man+eaten+by+cats.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSxDifzBapXjvmJSh9VDr1LNAW8AErtWUWY32Q2f5D1WDI5AB7-Qos_X9-nx21atWA9hm9xAOUkqqvXn4USYhtfsli0uOvv0V3LB9gQBvXDjx9tgtb6g6JPqK3AUj4tQvo18zCwA/s400/Man+eaten+by+cats.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409649596622207938" border="0" /></a><br />h/t <a href="http://quackdoctor.wordpress.com/">The Quack Doctor</a>.Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-75918803834385292532009-10-21T18:01:00.002-04:002009-10-21T18:03:29.808-04:00it's official<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigvBKOm20ODGtM-jGdmHvxkKIPp9KNtfWqvOq0N6MmIUgcV9XyUuy8vjrEzkMl-S6d8nw1tr39p4UHQLT5HIL_uURW-PwALATidvsBbsLXbqxJeokIFy7IIrO1sk5iTPFFEHLhHQ/s1600-h/groucho2ax0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigvBKOm20ODGtM-jGdmHvxkKIPp9KNtfWqvOq0N6MmIUgcV9XyUuy8vjrEzkMl-S6d8nw1tr39p4UHQLT5HIL_uURW-PwALATidvsBbsLXbqxJeokIFy7IIrO1sk5iTPFFEHLhHQ/s400/groucho2ax0.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395177016972567474" border="0" /></a>Sorry blog activity has been nil... I have been very busy with classes. But! I have an announcement:<br /><br />October degrees were conferred by Columbia today. I am officially a PhD.Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-69521182968095735582009-09-26T12:40:00.002-04:002009-09-26T12:42:47.025-04:00amusing if it weren't terrifyingQaddafi would be hilarious if he didn't actually hold power over an entire country:<br /><br /><span class="text">"We want to know who killed [JFK]. Somebody by the name of Lee Harvey and then...another, Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey. Why did this Israeli kill the killer of Jack Kennedy?... The whole world should know that Kennedy wanted to investigate the nuclear reactor of the Israeli demon."<br /><em>-- Muammar Qaddafi, addressing the UN for the first time. His personal translator collapsed 75 minutes into the 96-minute speech, reportedly shouting, "I just can't take it anymore."<br /><br />(h/t <a href="http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/">Doonesbury</a>)<br /></em></span>Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-45770134858423182182009-09-18T07:39:00.004-04:002009-09-18T07:50:13.097-04:00felix triumphator et semper groovius<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzbvNv4p6bk1BM1FWT_eCxwfvqYcM4Ri8DJ_F6aGRQ3RWBQNpLkcCJofyGKlpSUOMOgnV1NvnR3bgl0yNYevgCr3dvADBtNEbGTWmJ4uuJZ-Tn-VWMwZo73MngJ-7waDkVVzZxfQ/s1600-h/TriumphalProcession.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 342px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzbvNv4p6bk1BM1FWT_eCxwfvqYcM4Ri8DJ_F6aGRQ3RWBQNpLkcCJofyGKlpSUOMOgnV1NvnR3bgl0yNYevgCr3dvADBtNEbGTWmJ4uuJZ-Tn-VWMwZo73MngJ-7waDkVVzZxfQ/s400/TriumphalProcession.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382770758927595794" border="0" /></a>I realize that although I did comment on twitter, I didn't make it clear on the blog -- I did pass my dissertation defense. It went very well. Some important points and difficult questions came up, but more in the spirit of what I should do when I turn the study into a book rather than as commentaries on deficiencies of the thesis itself.<br /><br />I was given a "Pass with Minor Revisions" (for the most part typos) and then my colleagues welcomed me into the circle of PhDs by banging on the table and chanting, "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C4uTEEOJlM">We accept him, we accept him! One of us, one of us! Gooble gobble</a>."Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-35721609761710378572009-09-11T09:34:00.004-04:002009-09-11T09:44:04.086-04:00defense<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk4vkDjewVLAUjiwuoexz6fSdaErCAW6SpkWF8mo9ZMRE0wW-khm5MGT_NR1JUhAiQGUNg3RX-SuCBS3WQMQLBTAR7iCsihh-syQHuP9bbrAd-dxZ1IQayNLUujYcaaZ5sXzQJBQ/s1600-h/55790lg.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk4vkDjewVLAUjiwuoexz6fSdaErCAW6SpkWF8mo9ZMRE0wW-khm5MGT_NR1JUhAiQGUNg3RX-SuCBS3WQMQLBTAR7iCsihh-syQHuP9bbrAd-dxZ1IQayNLUujYcaaZ5sXzQJBQ/s400/55790lg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380203919475525410" border="0" /></a>Well, today, Sept. 11 (!) at 4:30 PM EST, I will be defending my dissertation before a committee of five professors. Please say a prayer for me.<br /><br />Today is the feast of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprian">St Cyprian</a>, who actually shows up and hangs around in my second chapter as patron of the cathedral of Leon, the bishop of which at one point was also named Cyprian. The chapter section is called "The Two Cyprians." So maybe that's a good sign.<br /><br />On the other hand, I could swear I saw vultures circling over me on Staten Island yesterday.<br /><br />So, prayers, please.Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-2689267045638324842009-08-25T14:36:00.002-04:002009-08-25T14:39:36.858-04:00the terrible turkish executioner (1904)<span style="font-size:100%;">By </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s">Georges Méliès</a>.<br /><br /><div><object width="420" height="339"><param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x1hhma_melies-the-terrible-turkish-executi_shortfilms"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x1hhma_melies-the-terrible-turkish-executi_shortfilms" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="339" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed></object><br /><b><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x1hhma_melies-the-terrible-turkish-executi_shortfilms">Melies - The terrible turkish executione</a></b><br /><i>by <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/kinetoscope">kinetoscope</a></i></div><br /><br />(h/t <a href="http://voyagesextraordinaires.blogspot.com/">Voyages Extraodinaires</a>).<br /></span>Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-1691719817189077012009-08-20T16:10:00.003-04:002009-08-20T16:16:22.458-04:00rachid tahaI love this song by the French-Algerian singer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachid_Taha">Rachid Taha</a>. The video is pretty funny as well. The lyrics can be found <a href="http://musique.ados.fr/Rachid-Taha/Ecoute-Moi-Camarade-t114568.html">here</a>.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xAz924KyoB8&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xAz924KyoB8&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />He also does a version of "Rock the Casbah" in Arabic!<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7DbFYsi9iSg&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7DbFYsi9iSg&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-89467821437542471692009-08-19T13:18:00.001-04:002009-08-19T13:18:57.120-04:00viva barney<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nYlZiWK2Iy8&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nYlZiWK2Iy8&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-19487171066258248622009-08-11T15:39:00.005-04:002009-08-11T15:56:16.319-04:00belgian pulpits<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikSq5GCaMH9WyOGDljYz7ClQOtap0oM3ozxS2PywB4iX2QCnRzlbC_ndHtUOyo8woTSIdyP8-Hny7FKoE4PPAC3c4uwROCuznIWPn7z1q9WAZd0YUpBLvD-fNGqRcwjax8I_6SZg/s1600-h/Belgium+150.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikSq5GCaMH9WyOGDljYz7ClQOtap0oM3ozxS2PywB4iX2QCnRzlbC_ndHtUOyo8woTSIdyP8-Hny7FKoE4PPAC3c4uwROCuznIWPn7z1q9WAZd0YUpBLvD-fNGqRcwjax8I_6SZg/s400/Belgium+150.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368794685766021282" border="0" /></a>O lazy August! When I should be preparing for my fall classes, or comparing microfilms of manuscripts for my research job, or even blogging out my bile towards the politics of the day, I find myself drooping in the heat and hearing the sweet siren call of the sofa, cat & nap. Yet there are things that I have yet to confess to blogdom - such as the fact that I had a surprise trip to Belgium two weeks ago. The reason why I shall leave to another day: I will just say that it involved a cat, a crisis, and a happy resolution. I took a number of photos when I was there, but today I want to share just one category -- beautiful wood and marble Baroque pulpits that seem to have been installed in every church that was around in the seventeenth century. I have no idea why there was a fancy-pulpit-carving craze in the Low Countries in this period, but I suspect it has something to do with preaching, the Counter-reformation and the fact that Belgium was right on the frontier between Protestant and Catholic Europe. Anyway, beautiful stuff and here are my photos.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4IXWTy3-a3xLqrBAnsWPwGeljf_i9EF4CabqMP8Lj_kDOjxICm1-ib-MUd9_rIcb8sPpb2BoxdTX4dUCcV7W4MebIIaHSLdU5IJpHX66NzC9328PBzDiUalsvI8neeFGxtz83DQ/s1600-h/Belgium+048.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4IXWTy3-a3xLqrBAnsWPwGeljf_i9EF4CabqMP8Lj_kDOjxICm1-ib-MUd9_rIcb8sPpb2BoxdTX4dUCcV7W4MebIIaHSLdU5IJpHX66NzC9328PBzDiUalsvI8neeFGxtz83DQ/s400/Belgium+048.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368794677947758802" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9VGyf3TILCrJARfgd80BvPI1QJyok1kWirQs60xGl3_cDyfG7zEwYOdLjEfq7Ao9NlBJbb2SvZwgV08QcdWvghL4IDvvZYh1gQ-z-TychixiCzlE5e9tsbfnEps350cmvrN3wAA/s1600-h/Belgium+046.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9VGyf3TILCrJARfgd80BvPI1QJyok1kWirQs60xGl3_cDyfG7zEwYOdLjEfq7Ao9NlBJbb2SvZwgV08QcdWvghL4IDvvZYh1gQ-z-TychixiCzlE5e9tsbfnEps350cmvrN3wAA/s400/Belgium+046.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368794675041622194" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1MxIAIkIUBmANmql9qJP8Atauv3jZB_anQ0rJfkrwzLvOqFKXLTMyI6wRUTAlq2yMhITzN1eKg3NVMZ7iIjcDA4NXeBWkVJxTbfE9Ft5OemMmGBFnhI8NsGslRDi_Es03y5mARA/s1600-h/Belgium+045.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1MxIAIkIUBmANmql9qJP8Atauv3jZB_anQ0rJfkrwzLvOqFKXLTMyI6wRUTAlq2yMhITzN1eKg3NVMZ7iIjcDA4NXeBWkVJxTbfE9Ft5OemMmGBFnhI8NsGslRDi_Es03y5mARA/s400/Belgium+045.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368794668093110562" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizR4C-HYs-6OP3lO75cm-aJdUCg_ceOdHEUZhgb2j3BWdjZsyXv2FYQaReIJTAxFLrEowvBkyA7iw9p-5e6Gur_gb2Kk-MgjByhVIfpd4_pCBdLMqJP2WyRamxf-iWsj2XkCAcEg/s1600-h/Belgium+149.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizR4C-HYs-6OP3lO75cm-aJdUCg_ceOdHEUZhgb2j3BWdjZsyXv2FYQaReIJTAxFLrEowvBkyA7iw9p-5e6Gur_gb2Kk-MgjByhVIfpd4_pCBdLMqJP2WyRamxf-iWsj2XkCAcEg/s400/Belgium+149.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368794683362362050" border="0" /></a>Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-33606967249540395412009-08-05T14:43:00.003-04:002009-08-05T14:45:53.051-04:00oh no!He wasn't really born in the United States! He isn't a legitimate medievalist! Where's the long form, Liam?<br /><br /><a href="http://kenyanbirthcertificategenerator.com/c0270655aa82bcc9f5ce5002311af8c1"><img src="http://kenyanbirthcertificategenerator.com/c0270655aa82bcc9f5ce5002311af8c1.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://kenyanbirthcertificategenerator.com/">Kenyan Birth Certificate Generator</a> (h/t <a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/">TPM</a>).Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-74198270033251508632009-08-03T16:54:00.001-04:002009-08-03T16:54:56.187-04:00new post on frammenti e rovine<a href="http://frammentierovine.blogspot.com/2009/08/dies-irae-at-elmore-ranch.html">Dies Irae at the Elmore Ranch</a>.Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-33319485855467078342009-07-31T15:48:00.001-04:002009-07-31T15:49:54.356-04:00jazz massAt <a href="http://www.americamagazine.org/index.cfm">America Magazine</a>, a video about the Jazz Mass at my parish:<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tWKZEGsfZZY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tWKZEGsfZZY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-73101253781562064442009-07-16T12:20:00.000-04:002009-07-16T12:22:14.257-04:00new (old) story...at <a href="http://frammentierovine.blogspot.com/2009/07/arab.html">frammenti e rovine</a>.Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-5171380962180083122009-07-11T10:56:00.003-04:002009-07-11T11:00:43.541-04:00feast of st benedict<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpvRBQjcSry9MUUD0QyOAAVWfe97WXdSwLeBVMpzZ282XOt1DNmAGap1Psitj1BR2G1qfM1xvrZfg_5ClMyozgouv4h1tHOeLXlPs7u91rbCxNxDEpNsaZqKGbxuOZ6786yVMrEA/s1600-h/st-benedict-3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 291px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpvRBQjcSry9MUUD0QyOAAVWfe97WXdSwLeBVMpzZ282XOt1DNmAGap1Psitj1BR2G1qfM1xvrZfg_5ClMyozgouv4h1tHOeLXlPs7u91rbCxNxDEpNsaZqKGbxuOZ6786yVMrEA/s400/st-benedict-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357216578767001170" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Happy Feast of St Benedict!<br /><br />In his honor, I am embedding a 1965 video of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_monks">The Monks </a>-- like Benedict himself, ahead of their time.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-5iI0__9S1c&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-5iI0__9S1c&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-82986200661060620182009-07-04T16:20:00.001-04:002009-07-04T16:20:58.032-04:00new post on frammenti e rovine<a href="http://frammentierovine.blogspot.com/2009/07/lion-in-machine.html#comments">The Lion in the Machine</a>.Liamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com0