• Archive for May, 2004

    A Song About Peace

    by  • May 24, 2004 • MUSIC

    I realize I’m ranting about it yet again when I hear Lime’s voice over the phone, quietly, saying, “Okay, but Gord, now it’s too much. You sound crazy!”

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    Shameless Self-Promotion

    by  • May 24, 2004 • PERSONAL

    Yes, I am plugging myself here for a guest post I made on a friend’s blog, which is called Dare You To Write. The post is called The Real Work and it’s about that endless question of what to do with your life when you realize you want your life to have a point,...

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    NYRB

    by  • May 23, 2004 • WTF

    Here’s an article on the reemergence of The New York Review of Books as a political force in American letters. It’s quite fascinating, from my point of view, and I shall have to pay closer attention to the magazine from now on. This and other links of late have come to me via the...

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    On Bad Priests

    by  • May 23, 2004 • BOOKS & AUTHORS

    Here’s a book review of a book that looks pretty interesting: Fallen Order by Karen Liebreich. Pope John Paul II has kept noticeably quiet on the subject of Catholic priests who sexually abuse children. But in 2002, after high-profile cases in Europe and the United States, he was moved to acknowledge the problem –...

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    Why It Must Be From Higher Up

    by  • May 22, 2004 • WTF

    I could write about any number of things here, from the wonderful meal that Lime prepared today, to the wedding I attended, to the film we saw tonight… but those things can wait till tomorrow, or the day after. For right now, what’s on my mind is what I saw on TV while we...

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