Category: Entertainment
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absolutely convinced atheist
“An absolutely convinced atheist, it often seems to me, is simply someone who has failed to notice something very obvious—or, rather, failed to notice a great many very obvious things.” ― David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss
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Living without Social Media — 21 Letters Written
Well we’re two months into our year of living without social media and I can confidently say I don’t miss it, even with googling the news more than normal (which I’m also trying to curb as I used to abstain from reading the news, but as the desert fathers said, sometimes you have to use one vice to…
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Mr. Two Face Dark Knight : Meeting Jongluers and Troubadours in my Dark Knight Rewatch
I could be called Mr. Two Face Dark Knight when it comes to analysis and thinking — reflectively — on the films and books I read. I don’t know about you, but I find myself wrong more often than I’m right. Likely that’s because everything we don’t know is infinite. Everything we do know is finite. And…
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Why I, an Adult, Believe in Santa by Lancelot Schaubert
Why I, an Adult, Believe in Santa is an article I wrote four years ago and it seemed fitting to read for The Best Christmas Stories because it’s something of a meta-story about Christmas in general — particularly the mythos of Santa and why that’s a good thing:
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The Little Guest by Margery Williams Bianco
For the Best Christmas Stories, we’re now reading The Little Guest by Margery Williams Bianco. Really love the ending to this one.
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Vulnerare by Lancelot Schaubert
Here’s one of my own — one of the poems I recently posted on here — for the Best Christmas Stories, a poem called Vulnerare. I’m also using this to splinter off into a third podcast which will eventually compose poetry readings.
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Santa Claus: A Psychograph by Gamaliel Bradford
For my annual readings of The Best Christmas stories, here is Santa Claus: A Psychograph by Gamaliel Bradford. It’s a wonderful bit about the psychology behind a man who would want to travel around the world giving to others. As well as the psychology of those who hope to emulate him by participating in the mythos:
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My First Christmas Tree by Hamlin Garland
Getting into the momentum here reading one an hour for our annual tradition of the best Christmas stories. You’ll be able to tell Tara and I are enjoying relaxing to the sounds of Christmas all around us… relaxing enough that I botched the intro on My First Christmas Tree by Hamlin Garland like eight times. Here’s My…
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The Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot
In keeping with the annual tradition of reading the best Christmas stories for adults (as well as the best Christmas stories for kids and the best Christmas poems), here is The Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot: As you’ll hear in the recording, I was clued into The Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot by Professor…
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Cuckoo’s Calling Discussion for BOOK CLUB!
It’s time to talk through The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith! I’ll start off the discussion with this question: The theme of fame and misfortune takes the center stage in the Cuckoo’s Calling. Knowing that Robert Galbraith is J.K. Rowling’s pseudonym, how do you think she is processing through fame in anonymity? Certainly book one of…
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Funeral Eulogy for My Grandpa Deno Bubba
This year I had planned on staying in NYC the whole holiday season, but my grandfather passed away very, very suddenly on Saturday morning, so we grabbed an emergency flight back to Illinois, rolled into town for the visitation on Monday night and I performed the funeral eulogy and graveside services on Tuesday. Tara recorded the…
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Vulnerare
In the Christmas Carols are the covered truths About the battered beauties who then love Despite the signs, the signaled fears That cue our cowing, that create our fights And fletch our flights with the feathers of something That kidnaps our courage. They execute a Plan as if plotting, as if placing a mole Merrymaking…