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Aug.06.2012 Top Ten List Of Most Difficult Books To Read I am obviously a bad boy (or a slacker) for I have read but one of these books - To The Lighthouse byVirginia Woolf . And I didn't find it difficult at all - in fact, I've read it twice. And I have been planning to read Finnegans Wake for decades. Really, I have. As for philosophy - well...	May.30.2012 Frozen Strawberries May 30 FROZEN STRAWBERRIES “I have them in the freezer,” I tell my sponsor. “I’m sure you do. When are you going to take them out and reenact spring?” her retort. “I don’t want to take them out before I’m ready. I don’t want them to go to waste.” “Oh, the...
Aug.21.2011 I'm Not Dead Yet In their book The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow declare that Philosophy is dead. When I read that, it reminds me of this scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail.	Jun.29.2011 Go and Play Tennis! I think I am just a normal guy but many people may well consider me rather crazy. Let me give you a few examples. I am the last person renting in my block of flats; When I look at my bank account I am reminded of Greek government bonds;In any case I hate having visitors; I very rarely visit people;...
Sep.29.2010 Dueling Economies Dueling Economies 09/28/2010 3 Comment(s) Please take a seat before continuing: the contemporary "privileged class" within Western developed nations no longer lives with and abides by free-market economics. Yes, the free-market system, the economic model that brought us a dizzying...	Sep.11.2010 Pastor Terry Jones vs. Monty Python's Terry Jones To the whole world, Terry Jones is a Florida pastor with a stack of Qurans and a book of matches, but every time I see his name in my web news feed, I can't help but think of Terry Jones from Monty Python. Here's my editorial on restoring the good name of Terry Jones to its Monty Python glories...
Feb.17.2010 Norwegian Bovines Side with de Beauvoir Last week, the Red Room asked us to submit a blog addressing whether we agreed with Simone de Beauvoir when she wrote: "I wish that every human life might be pure, transparent freedom," or with her lifelong partner Jean Paul-Sartre's assessment that we're "condemned to be free...	Feb.16.2010 Brazil: South of the Subconscious Future iBecause Brazil is a long movie and we started late at night, my wife and I watched Terry Gilliam's brightly-colored Orwellian masterpiece over two nights, which was both a good and bad idea--good because it allowed us a break to think about it and discuss it; wrong, because all good movies deserve...
Jun.28.2009 Songs of the Big Blue Snake Some weeks ago, desire swept through me to see Monty Python's Spamalot (onstage through July 5 at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco). Elizabeth agreed and I e-vited her sister Margaret and her husband, Charles (a fan from the 1970s), who shouted affirmatively. I said I'd reserve the...	Jun.04.2009 Python mistakes Palestinians for Buddhists Last week at the Palestine Literature Festival, Michael Palin produced some of his funniest material since his Monty Python heyday. However, he probably didn’t intend it to be funny. Palin told an audience that was rather lacking in actual Palestinians – mainly locally based international aid...