In the waiting room while my dad gets his ticker worked on.
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June 11, 2014 by at 9:46 am
In the waiting room while my dad gets his ticker worked on.
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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Hope your old man is in good condition.
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This is unseasonable, but not irrelevant.
Thanks Angelico. My dad’s doing well. Day 4 at Sacred Heartbreak Hotel. A bovine aortic valve and three new grafts to upgrade the plumbing on a 1991 bypass. Revised and expanded bucket list in the works.
Also this:
O Wounded Heart, O Font of tears!
O Throne of grief and pain!
Whereon for the eternal years,
Thy love for man does reign.
Operator…
What do you want?
We want information… information… information….
You won’t get it.
By hook or by crook… we will.
Who are you?
The new Number 2.
Who is Number 1?
You are Number 6.
I am not a number —
I AM A FREE MAN!
lol
Heh. My pater has been known to quote this exchange verbatim.
See also.
Scanners just went onto my watch list next to the Wong Kar-Wai films