A pretty good version of the good life.
May 26, 2006 by at 10:44 pm
A pretty good version of the good life.
A nod to Kierkegaard and Walker Percy: existentialist tomfoolery, political satire, literary homage, word mongering, a year-round summer reading club, Dylanesque music bits, apocalyptic marianism, poetry, fiction, meta-porn, a prisoner work-release program.
Søren Kierkegaard
Walker Percy
Bob Dylan
Literature & History
Letters from an American
Beau of the Fifth Column
This American Life
The Writer’s Almanac
San Diego Reader
The Stranger
The Inlander
Adoremus
Charlotte was Both
The Onion
From Empty Hands
Ellen Finnigan
America
Commonweal
First Things
National Review
The New Republic
All Manner of Thing
Gerasene Writers Conference
Scrutinies
DarwinCatholic
Catholic and Enjoying It
Bad Catholic
Universalis
Is My Phylactery Showing?
Quotidian Quintilian
En pocas palabras
William Wilson, Guitarist Extraordinaire
Signposts in a Strange Land
Ben Hatke
Daniel Mitsui
Dappled Things
The Fine Delight
Gene Luen Yang
Wiseblood Books
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I’ve had the Tony Bennett version of THE GOOD LIFE running through the cortex this week “…full of fun, full of friends, your ideal.” (I think the singer ends up lamenting the good life because his heart is broken).
As for 150 acres and a Catholic mule, I’d be curious about how they solve the malaise problem. It sounds as if he’s living a life I’ve often fantasized about. The big drawback for me and everyone else in that sort of community is that, as a community member, I would be part of the community.
Is it you Jon?
If we got Rick and Carmen to convert — and my folks and Carolyn — some acreage in the foothills west of Snohomish or south of Cheney or an island in the Puget Sound … we could have our own Catholic version of Gilligan’s Island.
Who would be Ginger and who would be Mary Ann?
My folks = Mr. and Mrs. Howell.
Rick = the Professor
Webb = the Captain
Potter = Gilligan
Carmen, Tiffany, Ashley & Carolyn would take turns being Ginger and Mary Ann. In alternating episodes.
This is sounding less Catholic all the time.