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CMAA Sacred Music Colloquium 2009

bt — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:26:23 +0000

And here’s how you all should have spent this past week:

Keep an eye on Corpus Christi Watershed, who put together this video. They were taping all week, and I hope they’ll have more to offer soon.

Lent and Onions

bt — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:47:30 +0000

Ditch: “Pardon me, but how much liver would I need as a side dish for three people?”
Butch: “That depends. Are they eating it voluntarily or under duress?”

New Links

bt — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:34:01 +0000

The Catholic Thing’s obit on Fr. Neuhaus has caused me to add the site to my blogroll. That being about five new links this month, I figured I’d throw in a post pointing them out.

Enviro Tap

bt — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:39:50 +0000

The other day, I saw an ad for a sleek looking bathroom faucet, the chief boast of which was its revolutionary water-saving design. How does it work? Well, (and listen carefully, it’s complicated), it appears that it runs at a mind-bending 1.7 gallons per minute, trouncing the industry standard 2.3. That’s right. It makes the water run slower. So while the rest of you neanderthals are doing the same thing by cranking your dinosaur taps a quarter turn less, I’ll be getting water from my boldly yet reservedly styled, almost sentient cosmosoteriofaucet, like the rest of the enlightened. If only there were more of us. Sigh.

Stoneboat Vineyards

bt — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:09:04 +0000

Check out this new winery. Only a year old, and producing wines that my untrained palate finds just delightful. Especially consider the Pinot Noir and the late harvest Kerner. If you can figure out how to order it. I can’t.

Freedom of Speech

bt — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:13:14 +0000

Ezra Levant to the Alberta Human Rights Commission:

“Make my day.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5dwUqCGJeE&feature=related

It’s worth watching.

(For my non-Canuck friends, the HRCs are quasi-judicial bodies that have assigned themselves the role of offensiveness police. Yes, in Canada, we take niceness so seriously that you can be financially ruined for being mean.)

Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis

bt — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:05:16 +0000

You’ve just been diagnosed with a subtype of hypersensitivity pneumonitis. So what’s the good news? Well, chances are you have a disease with one of the strangest names ever concocted. The following is far from an exhaustive list of the possibilities. Going from the most mundane to the most exotic, you could have:

New Guinea Lung
Dry Rot Lung

Furrier’s Lung

Malt Worker’s Lung
Mushroom Worker’s Lung
Wood Pulp Worker’s Lung

Dog House Disease
Fishmeal Worker’s Lung
Hard Metal Disease
Wheat Weevil Lung
Pauli’s Reagent Lung
Vineyard Sprayer’s Lung

Rat Handler’s Lung

Washing Powder Lung

Sauna Taker’s Disease

Pituitary Snuff Taker’s Disease
Sewage Sludge Disease

Cheese Washer’s Lung
Paprika Splitter’s Lung
Maple Bark Stripper’s Disease

There. Don’t you feel better?

New Link Category

bt — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:19:08 +0000

Check out the new link section, “The Touchables,” being an assortment of links to divers artisans of all things made painstakingly one by one in complete isolation from the net. More links as I find more stuff. Suggestions, anyone?

Apology

bt — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:51:43 +0000

Hey everybody, sorry I haven’t been writing in ages. I have a ton of course work to do, and it must be done by the end of April. Also, the muse is a bit drowsy of late. Talk to you when she wakes up.

Thanks for the tip

bt — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:05:57 +0000

Hey Dz, check out where your climate change link led me:

Sixty scientists write letter to Stephen Harper critical of climate change alarmism.

Scroll to the bottom and check out the scientists, too.