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Maclin Horton
Fairhope, Alabama [email: my first name followed by a period followed by my last name at gmail.com]
Victor Hugo said "50 is the youth of old age." Now it's 60, I think.
Interests: music, literature, film, politics., catholic spirituality and doctrine
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Loudon Wainwright III: Talkin' Bob Dylan
Weekend Music Today is Dylan's birthday. He's 72. Loudon Wainwright III, as you may know, was one of several artists who were briefly touted as "the new Dylan" in the early 1970s. The kid he refers to in the last verse is presumably Martha Wainwright, herself a worthy artist, I... Continue reading
Posted yesterday at Light On Dark Water
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Remarkable
On the way home from work I listened to the BBC/PRI radio show The World. A BBC foreign affairs writer was interviewed about the Woolwich murders. The interview lasted for somewhere around ten minutes, and the words "Islam" and "Muslim" were never once mentioned. I deplore anti-Islamic hysteria and fear-mongering.... Continue reading
Posted 2 days ago at Light On Dark Water
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Time to Dump The Atlantic
Posted 2 days ago at Light On Dark Water
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If you haven't seen this, you should
It's an interview with a survivor of the Oklahoma tornado. You have to watch it all the way to the end. (Hat tip to Neoneocon.) Continue reading
Posted 3 days ago at Light On Dark Water
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Most Peculiar Biblical Exegesis Ever?
This has been getting quite a bit of commentary on blogs and Facebook for a couple of days, so maybe you've already seen it. I generally avoid picking on the Episcopal Church: it feels a bit unsporting, because it's such a soft target if you're looking for heretical/apostate Christians, and... Continue reading
Posted 4 days ago at Light On Dark Water
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George Herbert: "Whitsunday"
Listen sweet Dove unto my song And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long Till it get wing, and flie away with thee. Where is that fire which once descended On thy Apostles? thou didst then Keep open house, richly attended, Feasting all comers by... Continue reading
Posted 7 days ago at Light On Dark Water
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Miles Davis and Gil Evans: Miles Ahead
Weekend Music I'm only going to post one track from this album, but I really want to recommend the whole thing. It's almost universally considered a classic, and if you have much interest in jazz you've probably heard it; certainly you should hear it. I bought it some time back,... Continue reading
Posted 7 days ago at Light On Dark Water
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"The joy of life is diminishing"
I get a daily email from the Vatican Information Service which reports on the doings of the pope. A lot of it is dull stuff about meetings and ecclesial appointments, so usually I just scan it quickly. But usually there are at least a few remarks from the pope. And... Continue reading
Posted May 17, 2013 at Light On Dark Water
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Seagull
Posted May 16, 2013 at Light On Dark Water
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Is Europe Heading for Serious Trouble?
This story from the Telegraph is somewhat alarming. I read National Review's blog pretty regularly, and a couple of their English writers, in particular Andrew Stuttaford, discuss the EU often, always in very negative terms. They are quite hostile to it, viewing it as a road to despotism, and since... Continue reading
Posted May 15, 2013 at Light On Dark Water
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I Suppose This Was Inevitable
The Internet Cat Video Festival. Continue reading
Posted May 14, 2013 at Light On Dark Water
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Dawn Eden: My Peace I Give You: Healing Sexual Wounds With the Help of the Saints
I'll say right off that I wouldn't have read this book if I hadn't been acquainted with the author (via the Internet--we have never met face-to-face) since somewhere around 2005 or so. Many or most who read this blog will be familiar with Dawn Eden's name because of her powerful... Continue reading
Posted May 13, 2013 at Light On Dark Water
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Pope Francis and the Liturgy
An interesting piece at the National Catholic Register. Reassuring to those of us who had been a little worried by some of the stuff we'd heard. But the remarks about the Traditional Mass being widely celebrated in Beunos Aires directly contradict what some others have said. I don't know which... Continue reading
Posted May 12, 2013 at Light On Dark Water
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The War
The Lord sends us into spiritual combat. It is a fight to the death that he himself has undertaken, and one that we too are invited to identify as our own ultimate battleground, conscious that it is God's war.... What is at stake in this war? It is whether in... Continue reading
Posted May 11, 2013 at Light On Dark Water
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Cream: As You Said
Weekend Music Really this should be credited to Jack Bruce, as he does everything here except for Ginger Baker's high-hat cymbal. And the lyrics are by Pete Brown. I liked Cream's music well enough but was never a zealous fan, which is evident from the fact that this was by... Continue reading
Posted May 11, 2013 at Light On Dark Water
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On Hating Twitter
I’ve hated it reflexively since its beginning. But with time’s passage and deliberation, I’ve come to hate it with deeper, more variegated richness. I have to say that I pretty much feel the same. And when I say "since its beginning," I mean since I first heard its name, which... Continue reading
Posted May 10, 2013 at Light On Dark Water
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The Angry Mr. Harris
I don't know much about Sam Harris, one of the belligerent "new atheists" ("What is new about them?", I always want to ask). But simply from having come across bits of his writing here and there on the web I have the impression that he's a very angry man. So... Continue reading
Posted May 8, 2013 at Light On Dark Water
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Bertie Wooster On Suffering
From "The Aunt and the Sluggard"; Bertie has had to lend both his apartment and Jeeves to a friend, and is living alone in a hotel: You know, I rather think I agree with those poet-and-philosopher Johnnies who insist that a fellow ought to be devilish pleased if he has... Continue reading
Posted May 7, 2013 at Light On Dark Water
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Baudelaire On Satan
Probably you've heard a remark attributed to Baudelaire that goes something like this: The greatest trick of the devil is to persuade men that he does not exist. I suppose the following passage from one of his prefaces to Flowers of Evil, quoted by David Yezzi in the April issue... Continue reading
Posted May 5, 2013 at Light On Dark Water
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Are Dogs Funnier Than Cats?
Yesterday I clicked on a news story with that title because I thought it would be amusing and was curious as to what the answer would be, and how it was determined. As it turned out, it was amusing more because of its slight earnest professor-analyzing-a-joke quality than for the... Continue reading
Posted May 4, 2013 at Light On Dark Water
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Spam, spam, spam, spam
You may have noticed that the spam catcher is not catching anything, hasn't been all day today. I haven't changed anything that I know of, and reported the problem to TypePad earlier today, but so far no response. I may have to enable "captcha", which I very much hate. Continue reading
Posted May 2, 2013 at Light On Dark Water
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:-)
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Posted May 2, 2013 at Light On Dark Water
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Bypassing Politics
(This is a post I've been wanting to write for a week or two. But as I may have mentioned, I've been working a lot of nights and weekends and haven't had much time for writing. So I'm going to go ahead and just say it briefly, which probably covers... Continue reading
Posted Apr 30, 2013 at Light On Dark Water
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The Thin Red Line
After having it strongly recommended to me several times by several different people, I finally devoted an evening to watching this movie. And I mean an evening: it's just under three hours long. I think a person of decent taste and intelligence could find it either sublime and profound, or... Continue reading
Posted Apr 28, 2013 at Light On Dark Water
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Fox On the Run
Weekend Music I don't know why, but almost every morning this week I've discovered that this song is running through my head as I'm getting ready for work. Something is triggering it--maybe something to do with walking the dogs to the bay--but I don't notice what, I just suddenly realize... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2013 at Light On Dark Water
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