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  • Goings On About Town (8/7)

    1. I still owe you: (1) Radiohead review and (2) my personal response to Dawkins. Next week. 2. In the meantime: I've moved on to postmodern theology at Theotica's suggestion. One of the crowning ironies of my life has …

  • There is no small amount of irony inherent in contemplating the afterlife when you've got insomnia. If sleep is, as the poets have always said, a kind of sub-genre of death, then isn't everlasting life a sort of endless …

  • Playlist: Existential Love Songs

    Existentialism: the belief that existence precedes essence, and all that follows from that belief. In English: you are alive. You don't know how you got here or where you are going after you are gone. You can't know. You…

  • Son, if you don't make a noise...

    ...God will never know you're there. -Bishop Allen, "Things Are What You Make of Them"First of all, to those of you who took my last post as an invitation to justify your existence: relax. The only person you owe an answ…

  • I been thinkin some of suicide...

    ...but there's bars out here for miles... -Ryan Adams, "Dear Chicago" "There is but one serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide." Thus Albert Camus begins his essay The Myth of Sisyphus. Camus asks: given the…

  • "No one will survive Ash Wednesday alive..." Madison had its largest single snowfall in twenty years on Ash Wednesday, 2008. Services were canceled at churches all over town. The services were hardly needed. In the swir…

  • Happy New Year. I'm back from off the grid. Though that's not why I haven't been writing. The truth is that I don't have anything to say that you haven't already heard a lot of times: I'm still into music, frozen lakes s…

  • Time is the Revelator 1. It's never a good idea to listen to Gillian Welch when you're sobering up. 2. Walking up Willy Street today, watching a middle-aged woman sitting cross-legged on the sidewalk, studying the conc…