Consolation Champs

So Jason Kottke has quit his job to pursue blogging full-time. And he wants us to pay him to do it. This is a head-scratcher for me. I love Jason’s site, but he surely can’t be serious? I see this as more of an “experiment” and I expect he’ll quietly begin looking for work again […]

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Back in the fall, Brooke and I bought tickets for tonight’s concert by the Soweto Gospel Choir as a sort of birthday present to each other. Tonight we were pretty excited about going. Even though we didn’t have the greatest seats (row YY, second from the back), we settled in expectantly. Then we heard her. […]

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I’ve never been skeptical, but some of you might need a little nudge.
Here’s a great introduction to one of my favourite kinds of music, including MP3s. I got into the second-wave (ie. British) of ska music around 1980, listening to bands like The Specials, The (English) Beat, The Selecter and Madness. I generally despise the […]

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A few days ago, I wrote an entry on my other blog about Nazi resistance heroine Sophie Scholl.
Also a few days ago, I began using online bookmark tagging service del.icio.us in earnest.
Today, I found my pal John’s links. I added one of them, a film blog, to my list.
The latest entry is talking about the […]

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Now picking up speed on the way to the grave…

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Dear Dr. Dobson is a really useful resource for Christians who oppose the anti-gay agenda of Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family. It’s part of the larger Soulforce organization, which looks pretty cool.
And of course there’s my other favourite “family” website, PFLAG.
NOTE: I’m posting these links as a resource for anyone who might be […]

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Photo by Zana Briski
On Tuesday night, Brooke and I went to a screening of Born Into Brothels, which has been nominated for an Oscar in the Best Documentary category.
Photographer Zana Briski has been documenting the lives of prostitutes in Calcutta’s red light district since 1997, and became very interested in the lives of the children […]

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Following K.Smoke’s lead, I’ve switched my RSS feed to Feedburner. If you are one of those invisible folks who reads my site via RSS, please switch your feed to this. Thanks, and hopefully, I’ll actually have something to say soon!

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