I asked for a latte from Starbucks but when I got home discovered that they had given me a mocha. So with every sip I taste not the sweetness of chocolate syrup but the bitterness of thwarted desire.
(it is funny, and telling, that in the current media environment a book published in 2011 may as well have been published in 1611.)
Here’s an interview about renewing the pleasure of reading in an age of distraction. Someone ought to write a book about that. Oh wait.
Currently listening: the Vince Guaraldi Trio, Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus. Righteous. 🎵
“I am 100% sure I am not a genius, but at the same time, I am 100% sure I am not a fool.” — Carlo Ancelotti. I’m thinking of adopting this as my motto.
Still slightly vibrating from that 🇦🇷 - 🇨🇻 match last night — one of the best I’ve ever seen. Cape Verde were magnificent: organized, disciplined, and utterly fearless. They came not to cower in a low block but to defend aggressively and take their chances. Wonderful stuff. ⚽️
To the tune of “Gilligan’s Island”:
Now sit right down and you’ll hear a tale
A tale of a rampant seal
Who’s damaging this coastal town
A hooligan named Neil
(via Adam Roberts)
In which I make a mighty vow: I pledge my blogging, my linking, and my sacred honour to the open web.
A few years ago I decided to stop intervening in intra-Christian debates. I am not sure whether I regret having been involved in them, but certainly nothing I wrote had any effect whatever on the course of events, so the only good my writing ever did was to clarify my own thinking. Still, some of those interventions still seem (to me) relevant:
- On the relationship between credal orthodoxy and questions of sexuality I wrote this.
- On the regular complaint that “this shouldn’t even be a question” I wrote this.
- On who should or should not be admitted to the sacraments I wrote this and this.
- On the concept of “false teachers” I wrote this.
- On “equipping the saints” I wrote this.
- I wrote a whole series of posts on Christians and “critical theory”: here’s the tag.
I’m not recommending these so much as reminding myself that I wrote them!
BTW, the two CBC documentaries on Gould that I mention in that essay are available on YouTube: Glenn Gould: Off the Record and Glenn Gould: On the Record. They’re fascinating.