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Archive for August 26th, 2005
We’re outta here
Friday, August 26th, 2005Finally, we’re going on vacation. After a pitstop this weekend in Mass for Willie’s 9th birthday, Diana, Judah and I are flying to Disney World on Sunday! I can’t promise much in the way of blogging before Labor Day, but who knows?
Nonna’s powerpoint online
Friday, August 26th, 2005Thanks to my “virtual” friend Bob Campbell. (We’ll actually meet one day soon, I hope, after corresponding online for almost a year!) Bob is hosting it on his personal website for a month or so, here. There may still be a glitch with the sound (does anyone kow how to embed the music directly into [...]
As the Spirit moves you …
Friday, August 26th, 2005Newsweek, for one, is noticing. And writing about it on the cover. One of the paradoxes: Whatever is going on here, it’s not an explosion of people going to church. The great public manifestations of religiosity in America todayâ€â€the megachurches seating 8,000 worshipers at one service, the emergence of evangelical preachers as political power brokersâ€â€haven’t [...]
Virginity at 40: an object of scorn
Friday, August 26th, 2005“The 40-Year-Old Virgin” skewers the idea that a self-respecting 40-year-old would willingly remain a virgin. Yet audiences made it tops at the box office last weekend with a $20.6 million debut and critics have praised it as “the best comedy of the summer.” Consider CNN’s glowing review: ‘The 40 Year-Old Virgin’ is, hands down, the [...]