As Potter noted, I have a tendency to overexplain when it comes to Alphonse. But here, I am hoping it serves a larger purpose: namely, to help launch Dorian Speed’s Art for the Sake of Grace project and its consideration of arts and patrons and things Catholic. Thanks, Dorian! I really am tickled to have been a part of it.
“Do Pre-Persons Dream of Algebra?”
March 28, 2012 by at 3:11 pm
Well, look at that, Alphonse (and other attempts at getting at the infinite mystery and fragile pricelessness of personhood through fiction) isn’t kid’s stuff, after all… At least, not if we’re to believe what the esteemed and delightfully grumpy Thomas Fleming has to say about Philip K. Dick…
Special Cross-Platform Promotional Supplement Feature
March 25, 2012 by at 3:36 pm
Speaking of vaultless ambition and bottomless sloth: baby has a blog.
Hey, look – Jon Stewart’s doing infomercials!
March 12, 2012 by at 2:40 pm
Is he a rube-boob or is he the cutting edge, funny, a signficant contributor to the ongoing political [blather, blather, blather]?
Or perhaps he’s simply the Vince Schlomi of the death culture?
(Caution: video contains explicit language/ lies)
Today in Successful Crowdsourcing
March 9, 2012 by at 11:36 am
A propos of Expat’s project, here’s a story of somebody making what people want.
Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop drinking before noon.
Generation Yuck.
March 5, 2012 by at 10:59 am
The sound of retching you hear is merely the ick factor being readjusted.
Pepsi is to set to start making babyfood. Literally.
Forty Thousand
March 2, 2012 by at 8:53 am
I’m going begging on behalf of Alphonse again over at the site. One dollar apiece from forty-thousand souls. It could happen. The web is a wondrous place. If you find yourself so inclined, please spread the word. Sample color page:
Poor Baby
February 29, 2012 by at 10:07 pm
Well now. Heather King, whose book Shirt of Flame awaits on my e-reader, and whose memoir Redeemed I once had the happy occasion to review, has gone and written about abortion – her own. I will be reading it this Lent. Thought I’d mention it here.
Abortion Related Parental-involvement Laws Reduce Teen Suicide Rate, Expert Say
I’m not suprised.