Much like "suffer the little children to come unto me" doesn't mean what you might think.

Wont somebody think of the first born?

Much like "suffer the little children to come unto me" doesn't mean what you might think.

I just think of The Smiths.

Much like "suffer the little children to come unto me" doesn't mean what you might think.

Or, Psalm 23 "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want"?

Much like "suffer the little children to come unto me" doesn't mean what you might think.

All this time!

Yes – but agape is simply charity in the Christian sense. So why not use charity?

I'm going to have to dig up my notes, but I think it turned on a rather recondite (and now obsolete) turn of 15th century English usage. Much like "suffer the little children to…

Let's. erm, bottle him eh?

Much like a genie. Let's do that.

Not speaking Latin myself, my translation of Caritas in Veritate is Love in Truth.

.. not being a Latin speaker also, I deferred to the Vatican's interpretation – when in Rome and all that...

"VATICAN CITY, 7 JUL 2009 (VIS) – Given below is…

The Common Good (50th edition!), the mag of the Catholic Worker has a good write up on Caritas in Veritate.

Now included in the concept of 'the common good' is the environment and that sharing with…

but reminds me most of early Love and Rockets.

Los Bros Hernandez are golden gods — and still going strong. Got to admit that if I had to choose, I still prefer the later, more quote unquote 'realistic' work and am a bit meh-some about the really early stuff where L&R was…

yrs encyclically
Brit Annica
pass the buck...

The Benedict Blog has heaps.

Oh, wonderful. My eyes lit up when I read "The Pope Benedict Roundup!" but they didn't mean what I hoped they would.

just a nudge here then in the direction of the Papal Encyclical on Economics, which, given its content concerning Youth Culture
as the downfall of same, was perfectly obscured in its weblication by the precision sacrifice of Michael Jackson at the time...

By golly, you're right. I'm going to have…

Watched this the other night. Recommended for those who enjoyed "The Thick of It", as opposed to those who enjoyed "The West Wing", assuming there is a distinction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTPsFIsxM3w

[Fixed it. For YouTube (and some other) clips, just paste in the URL, including the http://, but no brackets or anything — RB]

Anything?? In that case...
Heather Parisi, "Crilù" (1984)

You owe me all the money I had spent in therapy to try to forget the lyrics. As for the costumes and the dancing... the psychiatrist who can help me erase those is not yet born.

(By the same token, one has…

just a nudge here then in the direction of the Papal Encyclical on Economics, which, given its content concerning Youth Culture
as the downfall of same, was perfectly obscured in its weblication by the precision sacrifice of Michael Jackson at the time...

Confirmed: Bryan Singer to direct a Battlestar movie

Obviously, nobody at Universal endured the multiple bore-gasm that is Superman Returns.

Hmm. I quite enjoyed 'Superman Returns'. But Singer has a track record that could charitably be described as....patchy.

And given how much I disliked where BSG ended up (Angels. What.…

righto, you lucky people yous...it is a rare and wonderous thing indeed to behold true genius and have all your paradigms wobbled like purple jelly with beetroot slices sitting in a stiff breeze.

I present Raygun...

Alan, Whilst I struggle to understand your sentence I see this created quite a…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVnjzpoY1O8

Anything?? In that case...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zERQmic3JJ8

Whereas Hilary's "Joe and Phil play the blues" is…

Russell said we could post anything today

Anything?? In that case...

Heather Parisi, "Crilù" (1984)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As9kUIB-KMM

When Amy Sedaris turned up as the Tooth Fairy in one episode I thought I might levitate

That's excellent, I must watch more closely next time my kids have it on. OTOH, to much famiglia Sedaris might be bad for their mental health...

Plus Richard Till will be doing a [[http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Events/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D84435142|talk in the…

Can I hear an Amen for "Yo Gabba Gabba"

I watch it every single day and I don't even *have* kids. The episode I watched yesterday had Money Mark and Rhys Derby on it! Rad. When Amy Sedaris turned up as the Tooth Fairy in one episode I thought I…

Heh... I don't know about that — aim it at the kids, and you'd be surprised what you can get under the radar.

Can I hear an Amen for "Yo Gabba Gabba", the kids TV show that has included musical guests such as Biz Markie, Jack Black, Ladytron, The Ting…

Sand art – just stunning!

That is quite impressive. Thanks for posting that.

Confirmed: Bryan Singer to direct a Battlestar movie

Obviously, nobody at Universal endured the multiple bore-gasm that is Superman Returns. I should be so lucky...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkn7o3AGDgc

Sand art – just stunning!

Amazing!!

Woolly Valley

Seconded!

The rest of the day was given over to a pilgrimage to Whisky Galore (where I spent more than I intended, to put it mildly: damn you, Brora 1981 25 year-old, for being so complex and entrancing)

According to their website Whisky Galore still have a bottle of this left.…

Sand art – just stunning!

http://www.wosu.org/blogs/arts/?p=353

Sorry no idea how to post a link properly, so you have to cut and paste to enjoy.

The talk itself went well: I enjoyed it, and the students seemed to as well.

Always good value, those students. But I did observe (and I am sounding like my own parents here), they all looked so damn young

I am off on my own jaunt in a week or…

Piano playing.
Best tips for late bloomers?

Just play it as badly as you possible can until something sweet emerges.

The late American poet Charles Bukowski had some great advice in the title of a poem –
"Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until The Fingers…

Heh... I don't know about that — aim it at the kids, and you'd be surprised what you can get under the radar.

So true. This is the first time I've seen the Count with adult eyes, and he's already brimming over with subtexts. At the time I thought he…

These days, he'd have to be the Count Trim-Soy-with-Calcium-Enrichement.

Heh... I don't know about that — aim it at the kids, and you'd be surprised what you can get under the radar. Just ask Paul Rubens — Pee-Wee's Playhouse was some seriously superfreaky shit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98JrWm9IMMA

These days, he'd have to be the Count Trim-Soy-with-Calcium-Enrichement.

That's classist and elitist. I'm sure most of us at PAS would disapprove of such titular honours.

I present Raygun...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzWpNdGb4Ps&feature=fvw

(younger boy's birthday tomorrow)

Happy birthday, Brown Minor. :)

Best tips for late bloomers?