File this under “performance art.” An email from Rick Mansfield of This Lamp (used with permission): This afternoon, I got home at the same time as Kathy and as we walked up to our front door, she saw the CaféPress package waiting for us. "OH! Did you get [...]
"When in one, stop digging." Thanks to Ministry of Truth. Check out the extended dissection of the Mark Brewer case.
Washington Post: July 5, 2008 “Inside Mugabe’s Violent Crackdown” by Craig Timberg I first caught this article from the Washington Post in a Mozambican newspaper. If you have been curious about the situation in Zimbabwe I highly recommend that you read this entire article. Here’s a snippet detailing how the ruling [...]
If you have followed the David Walker debacle you will want to check out Sam Norton’s latest post which publishes a cease and desist order from Mark Brewer as well as an extended email exchange between Sam and Mark. Such fun on a slow summer day. Sic ‘em, Sam! Sam has offered [...]
George has shown the good taste to use WordPress to collect his thoughts: http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/ I’ve added Orwell to my New And Amazing blogroll. I’m sure he’ll be worth reading even if he’s slow to reply to comments.
You can see all the entries in the Hand-Drawn Hippo Gallery. For instructions on participating see: Doodling contest and riding the rainbow hippo. Click on this logo in the sidebar to see the latest hand-drawn hippos:
…is like watching a concert without being able to hear the music. Sure, the notes are great but that full-color edition of the CEVLB is just incredibly fun and rewarding to browse through. So, when I saw that CEVLB was available for Palm and Windows Mobile Pocket PCs I [...]
I’m a big fan of the paintings of Paul Klee. There is a fascination in his primitive and childlike art. While the Wikipedia article on Paul Klee mentions the influence of “expressionism, cubism and surrealism” on the development of Klee’s style it fails to mention the crucial influence of Paul’s son, Felix. Paul was fascinated [...]
I continue to enjoy reading through the New Living Translation Study Bible. The introduction to Genesis has a fabulous summary of literary genre including myth, etiology, history, theology and more. I expect a study Bible like this to be critically conservative and to say things like, “Though some have dismissed this as simply a reworking [...]
Because it’s summer, I thought I’d run a little contest for all you talented scribblers out there. The lingapotamus art gallery has been a great success with already 29 samples of lingapotamus fan art. But one thing I’ve yet to see is any hand-drawn hippos. I did one for the Dave Walker campaign. But [...]
Image source: Aqui se habla Griega— muy poquitisimo (HT Mike) Each year before school starts in the fall, I like to post a little help for the poor suckers that are going to start “learning” New Testament Greek at the thousands of Bible colleges, universities and seminaries scattered around the globe. [...]
