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Category: Arts and Music
Mine coquettes avec des cigarettes
This Saturday, October 29, Lafayette Symphony Orchestra, Bach Chorale Singers, Bach Chorale Children’s Choir, and members of the Louisville Opera will present a semi-staged presentation of Bizet’s Carmen.
Nosebleed seats (second balcony) are now reduced to $20!
Production week started well. I’m confident that it’s coming together into “standing O” territory. Be there or be square!
Tasty Tidbits 10/24/11
- Rednecks in the Senate.
- Grudging respect.
- Pushing patriarchy and parturition.
- An atheist loses his faith …
- … and a Mormon Ms. loses her “orthodoxy.”
- Meanwhile, Christians carry on.
Sunday Respite
Yesterday, the cold rainy weather went away. So when not singing one of three Church services or raking leaves, I went for a bike ride.
And thus it came to pass you almost got nothing today. But then I thought “why shouldn’t I make everybody feel bad about wasting their life by showing them what Lafayette’s Chaconne Klaverenga has done with just 18 years thus far?”:
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Bon appetit!
Having become tedious even to myself, I’m Tweeting more, blogging less. View this in a browser instead of an RSS feeder to see Tweets at upper right.
I also have some succinct standing advice on recurring themes. Maybe if I link to it, I’ll blog less obsessively about it.
Calvinist Concessions galore – why not Orthodoxy?
I seldom comment critically on Reformed Christianity – Calvinism, my last waystation before Orthodoxy – but a very telling set of concessions from a Calvinist scholar leaves me wondering what thoughtful Calvinists think they stand to lose by
- giving up on restoring missing elements of balance to Calvinism and
- returning to the Church that never abandoned those elements.
Continue reading “Calvinist Concessions galore – why not Orthodoxy?”
Tasty Tidbits 10/3/11
- A better class of right-wing populist.
- Utilitarian religion
- Food, food, food.
- Political Gotcha!
- Judicial Supremacy?
- Wow! Look at the size of that thing!
- Happy first Monday in October!
Tasty Tidbits 9/12/11
- Doubts about credulity.
- That Ponzi scheme.
- Frontier Flight 623.
- Celebrating a serious artistic achievement.
- Tolerance or love?
- The day everything really changed.
Tasty Tidbits 9/8/11
- Losing faith.
- Kerygma and Creed.
- Fully invested in drunken sailors.
- Cheering for killing.
- There will never be another Hitch.
- 2 mpg! Woohoo!
Tasty Tidbits 8/25/11
- The Germ of Citizens United.
- Michelle Bachmann is no Hillaire Belloc.
- Ron Paul, jailer of women.
- Hissy-fit at Washington Post.
- Bipartisan Bank Bilge.
- Microcosm.
- Worth driving an extra 120 miles for.
Tasty Tidbits 8/23/11
- Tipsier than usual.
- A New Title IX Regulation, maybe?
- C. Schmoo Lewis.
- Exorcising Monsaton.
- Romance or marriage?
- Poke in eye. (If that doesn’t work, knee in groin?)
- Free the Data!
- An ocean divides us, but …
- Crop failure.
- At the corner of time and eternity.
Tipsy Teetotaler ن 