Sunday, July 5, 2015

Not About Thomas Merton: escort cards of yesteryear

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   Now these are interesting, sort of. One of them things you see on Facebook, a link-to rather, while you're scrollin' along t...

What rhymes with penis? The worst gif in the history of mankind

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I was watching one of those wretched Top Ten YouTube videos, very late at night when my brain is basically on another planet, when I di...

THOMAS MERTON CONFIDENTIAL, Part 2: Dead monk in the middle of the road

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(These are not random reflections, but the ones I woke up with, off the top. I have never been a Merton fan ever since I took a cour...
Saturday, July 4, 2015

Om ma ni pad me hum

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   Om (ohm) Ma (mah) Ni (nee) Pad (pahd) Me (may) Hum (hum) At the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, ...
Friday, July 3, 2015

THOMAS MERTON CONFIDENTIAL (or: did they or didn't they?)

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I’ve never been much of a Mertonologist, though I know there are entire societies worldwide that exist only to praise his lowly, Tr...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

Taxi Driver directed by Woody Allen

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          "Do you realize what a thread we're all hanging by?"
Sunday, June 28, 2015

Those dancing feet: Caitlin aces it!

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Flowers in her arms, stars in her eyes! Caitlin triumphs once again at her year-end dance recital, but with a difference. She really...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

Marcie in a coat of flowers: the brilliance of Joni Mitchell

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Joni Mitchell – Marcie Marcie in a coat of flowers Steps inside a candy store Reds are sweet and greens are sour Still no letter...

April - Deep Purple

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Wild Orphan by Allen Ginsberg Blandly mother takes him strolling by railroad and by river --he's the son of the absconded hot...
Friday, June 26, 2015

How many times can a song make you cry?

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Thursday, June 25, 2015

To think of blue almonds: Polish phrases and how to use them

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20 OF THE FUNNIEST POLISH PHRASES (AND HOW TO USE THEM) BY OLGA MECKING MARCH 5, 2015 Photo: PolandMFA 1. A Pole won’t tell ...