Satellite views of our fair city, courtesy of Acme Mapper:
World Fare is on the east side of Main Street (the one going through the long row of buildings), marked almost perfectly by the red target.
etcetera: December 2004 Archives
for the next two-and-a-half hours, you'll be able to catch a sneak preview of my next editorial. of course, after that time, the link will still work, but there won't be that giddy sense of V.I.P.-ness.
anyway, i wanted to post here a paragraph that i cut out of the editorial, because it was going in other directions. however, i'd still be interested in discussion on the following:
Another question that is both bigger than and intricately intertwined with *cino-related questions is, how can the neo-Calvinist worldview be more positively influential on a large scale, rather than being a mere intellectual curiosity tied to a minor ethnicity? Perhaps its compelling thoroughness in full practice will in time solve current problems such as the notable scarcity of women and people of color in neo-Calvinist circles that don?t bode well for widespread recognition and impact.
i'd be interested in thoughts from both insiders and outsiders about the potential of neo-Calvinism to inspire significant cultural renewal in today's context.
Wonderful catapult columnist and Calvin College Student Activities Coordinator Kate Bowman linked to a great Christmas surprise on her blog a few days ago: Sufjan Stevens' Christmas albums. Apparently, he has sent these out to friends as gifts for the past several years and they've been distributed widely on the internet (here's the disclaimer of the person to whom I've linked above). I've only listened to a few songs so far, but I've already thoroughly enjoyed Sufjan's eclectic arrangements of traditional Christmas songs.
so we have this habit of switching the first letters of two words that go together. these words can be names (Bob Smith becomes Smob Bith), pairs of people (our dear friends Barry & Jo are commonly referred to as Jarry & Bo), or just words (parking lot=larking pot). but mostly, it's fun to do with names, sometimes revealing hidden or ironic character traits.
a little fun for the imminent weekend... let me know if you come up with anything chucklish.
for some reason, i feel guilty when i don't blog for a week or two. i'm not sure there's a good explanation for this, really, other than good old dutch calvinist guilt (sidenote: i've been told recently that calvinists don't have as much of a corner on the guilt market as i had first thought, making it a much less desirable identity attribute).
anyway, i thought i'd blog just to blog. i'm in the homestretch of my semester, which will be finished on monday, and then life will slow down mildly before christmas. i need to catch up on *cino work before christmas so that i can take a full-fledged vacation at the end of the year. vacation ... so close, yet so far away.
