Let’s face it, you’ve heard the phrase ‘a new kind of television’ enough times to make you go numb in the buttocks. Every two-bit wanna’be Seinfeld pilot gets styled that way, too often to cover up a lack of talent with the siren song of novelty. But you’d be mistaken to be dubious about 24. [...]
Archive for February, 2008
watch your back: 24, Season One
Posted in reseña, tagged 24, film, reseña on February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
tedium’s paradox: Exodus 36–38
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Exodus, textures on February 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is well to temper one’s definition of tedium with humility. In the absence of this discipline, we all too hastily dismiss as boring and irrelevant aspects of reality that from other angles may appear enthralling and pertinent. Or, at the least, worthy.
preaching to the choir: Ann Chamberlain, Rhodesian Ridgeback (Comprehensive Owners Guide)
Posted in reseña, tagged Ann Chamberlain, fauna, reseña, Rhodesian Ridgebacks on February 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
‘Funny thing about Rhodesian Ridgeback books. It’s hard to tell the reader something he doesn’t already know. That’s because this beguiling breed elicits such passion and understanding from its owners that most of us end up so attached to our dogs that we know their behaviors and temperament inside and out. As a result, we [...]
the two infinities: Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Posted in reseña, tagged Fyodor Dostoyevsky, reseña on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some literary works are so sweeping in their vision, so penetrating in their understanding of the human condition and its psychology, so inexhaustible with respect to their spiritual insight that a reviewer feels quite small as he turns the last page and takes up his pen to comment. Such is Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. Three [...]
a pregnant simplicity: Matthew 22
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Matthew, textures on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A proper perspective will frequently elicit the inherent simplicity from a mass of details rather than impose an external simple-ness. Such is Jesus’ view of the Hebrew legal complex, a hermeneutic for which Jesus himself would scarcely have claimed novelty.
second sets of two: Exodus 34-35
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Exodus, textures on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To enter the world of the Hebrew slaves, finding their way in more sense than just one in the shadow of Mt. Sinai, is to intrude upon an odd world. Even its protagonists—Aaron for example—defy classification. One one hand, he is the spokesman of Yahweh’s own prophet. On the other, he responds to the threat [...]
because I tried: Lifehouse, Lifehouse
Posted in reseña, tagged Lifehouse, music, reseña on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It may well be that Lifehouse fired their three working bullets on the first tracks of this eponymous and excellent album. Then again, maybe not. The rest of these tunes are pretty good work. It’s just a little tough keeping up with the right-left-another-right emotional impact of ‘Come Back Down’, ‘You and Me’, and ‘Blind’. [...]
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