Saturday on Substack 22.IV.2023
Christ Is Risen!
After the record-highs of last week, this week has been crazy, to the point that we even had snow on Monday! It looks like there may be snow or sleet happening outside right now, but the rest of the week was somewhere nearer to normal for this time of year. I went from thinking it was far too early to start putting plants out, to thinking I need to get on it right away to going back to remembering that this is crazy spring in Wisconsin.
Writing
Again, I meant to write about Breyon Hunter, but with Pascha and not feeling great at the beginning of the week, and more life insanity at the end, I didn’t. It doesn’t look like anybody else has either, so hopefully Monday I’ll have something.
Other than that, these are this week’s posts, in case you missed them:
Reading
I had a couple of Daily Mail links I had saved, but being as they are now making it difficult to read the thing without giving them full access to my computer for their ads, I’m done. They have embedded ads and sponsored posts that don’t get filtered out, and my little laptop gets absolutely overwhelmed by the amount of stuff that some of these sites want to pull up. I probably have my browser crash a couple times a day from being overloaded, and occasionally, I have to restart the whole computer.
Anyone Can Possess a Poem - (Gladsome Lights)
Friday Happy Dance - (Bluebird of Bitterness) - This is a very, very famous scene from one of Shirley Temple’s movies. Watching this the same day after reading Rod Dreher’s post “The ‘Violent War on Reality’” made this even more profound. Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple were so different, but both lovers and masters of dance, and in the way they dance together, the obvious respect and love they have for each other is palpable. I don’t know if I’ll ever have time to expand on this, but … wow.
Chat GPT smeared Professor Jonathan Turley - I hope to write more about this this week, because it’s important.
Can Anything Good Come From the Internet? - Thoughts about the internet and Orthodox Christianity
Chicago Bedlam - Joseph Paul Watson via
. This was happening four miles away while we were in church.Chicago Workers who Refused Covid Vaccines to be Reinstated with Back Pay - from
Don’t be a Sucker - by
regarding Covid shots and medical apartheid.The Senator Dies, the Monk Stillborn -
Is Technology a Saint Killer? -
It's a well-written article, and there are a lot of good points. I'm not sure that I agree with the "conclusion" but technology is definitely a distraction.The Worst Thing about the Fox-Dominion Settlement -
Watching/Listening
I didn’t do a whole lot of this this week.
"nudged" me to participate in the film series she's doing "Spring of Carey" on her blog and... maybe I can do some. The distractions are nice.Laughing
Hmm…
Music
I posted a good number of things in my Pascha posting, but I’ll add here a couple of things that didn’t make those posts.
The Hymn of Kassiani. It’s part of the musical repertoire of Holy Week. We looked at singing it two years ago. I don’t know if it was this version or not, but I got the music the same day as the service and it was one of those things we didn’t do because I couldn’t without a good deal of practice.
Christ is Risen - Harpa Dei - This is a group of siblings who, if I understand correctly, are German, Roman Catholic, and grew up in South America. They record under the group name “Harpa Dei”. Gorgeous!
The Angel Cried - A setting I had not heard before, but very pretty!
Galway Girl - Ed Sheeran I told Tabitha that she could be DJ on the trip to Chicago and back, and she put together a 77-track collection of things that she likes that could be played in front of the little kids. This was one I hadn’t heard before, but I thought was sweet. It figures it’s Ed Sheeran, as, yeah, my daughter is in love with him the way 13-year-olds are in love with celebrities…
Paragon Rag - Paragon Ragtime Orchestra - Seriously, I don’t know how I got here, but it’s been up in my tabs for a week!
I love ragtime, but ragtime reminds me of Tom Brier, and remembering him is a mix of happiness for his genius and sadness insofar as how much he’s suffered over the last several years (he nearly died in a car wreck where someone rear-ended him and he’s still in bad shape because of it).
Theme from Animaniacs - Tom Brier - I may as well post something of Tom Brier now. He’s a master of sight-reading, and watch him sight-read the piece the first time and then “ragtime-ify” it the second time. From what I can tell, he was also a really nice person, and one of the people who really energized the ragtime-music “scene” on the West Coast.
Miscellaneous
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