God is not mocked. Nor is He bargained with. But the man who loves his neighbor as himself might just walk through the valley of the shadow of death and make it to the other side.
God is not mocked. Nor is He bargained with. But the man who loves his neighbor as himself might just walk through the valley of the shadow of death and make it to the other side.
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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A friend recommended it for the same reasons you mentioned but the show overall didn’t work for me. It had a whole bunch of religious symbolism & talk but it seemed either randomly thrown about or too obvious. Dunno, maybe I’d think differently if I’d cared about the characters more.
Hm; if you didn’t care about the deputy, then yeah, I think it’d be tough to stay with it. But I thought the religious stuff was far from random, insofar as the great theme was the question of whether man is a savage animal like any other or maybe something else. And along that line, the scene where the Jew confronts Malvo was pretty fantastic, I thought.
She was alright. But Tom Hanks jr, his precocious daughter, his wise Jewish friend, Carradine, the two thugs (aka the Pianist & Jeremiah Johnson), Freeman’s awkward guy act, Odenkirk’s dopey guy act, even Billy Bob playing a chipper Anton Chigurth just hit all the wrong notes for me. Thanks for your thoughts in any case!
Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children.
Oh man – remember the ’90s?
The worst 3 years of my life.
AMDG
Well, so far the past year and a half might qualify as the second worst 3 years in my life, although this time around, almost everything that seemed calamitous at first turned out really well.
AMDG
A tragedy with a happy ending!
I’m pretty sure that nothing has ever turned out as badly for me as Lily’s tragedy turned out for her. That was one of those book that made me keep wanting to shout, “No, no! Don’t do it.”
Actually, it’s been a pretty amazing year and half, although exhausting to the extreme.
AMDG