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Notes, marginalia and dicta

Some may recall that an evangelist by the name of Luis Palau was featured at the recent LifeLight Festival. Looks like Palau thought it was a good idea. According to The Revealer, he’s got a gathering planned in Washington, DC, this weekend that includes “all-day performances by contemporary Christian musical groups.” Somewhat surprisingly, my review […]

Outtakes, riffs and dicta

My Serenity review noted that I felt there was a strong libertarian theme. I saw via the newsgroups last night that Reason magazine, which many (including myself) would consider a libertarian magazine, takes it a bit further. An column there describes the movie’s themes as “existentialist libertarianism.” (PLEASE NOTE: The Reason article contains serious […]

Notes and marginalia

As I continue in the catch-up mode, here’s a few odds and ends:

First, in light of my bemoaning age yesterday, I suppose I would be remiss if I did not note that today is Bruce Springsteen’s 56th birthday. You may have already seen my rant on “podcasts.” That aside, let me highly recommend an […]

Marginalia – Catching up edition

Too little sitting time to adequately keep up on things. Here’s a few items that caught my attention in recent efforts to get up to date:

The third annual South Dakota Festival of Books is scheduled for Deadwood Sept. 23-25, returning to the Black Hills after being in Sioux Falls last year. Here’s a of […]

Maginalia and jottings

Project Gutenberg now offers free audiobooks. (Via SFSignal). Interestingly, I saw a table at my local Barnes & Noble displaying the nominees for The Quill Awards. I say interesting because the only place you can vote for these awards other than online is at (say it quietly now) Borders Books. For whatever reason, I have […]