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Monday, November 9, 2009

R. Crumb's "Book of Genesis: Illustrated": Review

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This reminds me of a medieval woodcut bible; drafted boldly, thick-lined and heavily inscribed. Yet, within the faces, behind the actors, yo...
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Sunday, November 8, 2009

What hero from the Táin am I?

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You're Fergus Mac Róic, the former king of Ulster and certified sucker. You're tricked into giving the kingship to Conchobar and end...
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Saturday, November 7, 2009

Ag suí leis Naomh Proinsias--agus Ciara

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Chuaigh mé ar an séipéal an pharóiste Naomh Proinsias de Assisi áitúil arú an lá fhéile aige. Is teach an phobail in aice leis an siopa bhea...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Alternative Spiritualities in Ireland @ NUI Maynooth

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Maynooth, still the premier Irish seminary, if now largely a campus of its national university, hosts an "Alternative Spiritualities, t...
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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Oíche amach i Naomh Crios

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Chuir cuairt mé ar chairde agam ar deireadh tseachtaine seo caite. Tá siad i gcónaí ar tuaisceart na Stat Órga seo. Tá teach air go halainn ...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Religion: Evolving or Unnameable?

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Did religion evolve along with our more childlike looks, our thinner skulls, our success in mating? Are we moving towards a less-assertive, ...
Friday, October 23, 2009

Ag siúl ag imeall

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Chuaigh mé ag imeall an áit páircéala inniu. Bhí an moch ar maidín ann. Ní raibh gréine ag éirigh fós. Is maith liom ag siúl. Ach, ní mhaith...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Matchmaker, Broken Match

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At the start of July, "Rex" sat in the front row week one of my Speech class. Beside him sat "Regina," whom he never met...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Yo La Tengo @ The Rio, 10-17-09, Santa Cruz

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I go to concerts about, well, as often as YLT releases CDs. I hardly go to any at all. But, I realized that three gigs and three mes makes ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Pontiak's "Sun on Sun": Music Review

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Three brothers holed up in rural Virginia recall the Black Angels, Black Mountain, Mogwai, and Neil Young in their four best songs on this s...
Monday, October 19, 2009

Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound's "Ekranoplan": Music Review

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San Franciscans blend the Dead to Hawkwind: "Hall of the Mountain Grill" meets Mountain Girl? The first couple of songs take on th...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

PowerPoint, a Freudian slip, fairy fears

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"R.E.M. Succumbs": so they titled their first videos; for me, I succumbed to my first home-made Power Point presentation yesterday...
Friday, October 16, 2009

Quail Hollow Ranch

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Quail Hollow preserves an 1866 homestead, a ranch bought by the Lane family of "Sunset: The Magazine of Western Living" fame. Any ...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Fern River Resort

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On Highway 9, five miles north of Santa Cruz, by a bend in the San Lorenzo River, nestles this venerable motor court. About a dozen cabins s...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound's "When Sweet Sleep Returned": Music Review

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A San Francisco band with a mouthful for themselves and their newest CD title. They turn from the freakier Hawkwind-prog blend of their debu...
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John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"
Los Angeles, California, United States
Medievalist turned humanities professor; unrepentant but not unskeptical Fenian; overconfident accumulator of books & music; overcurious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica. Born in Los Angeles but should have been born in my parental Ireland. Eclectic music, reading, ideas-- often Celtic and/or medievally oriented. Tá Gaeilge a chuid feín dom faoi láthair, ach nílim cainteoir líofacht fós! Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg tipyn nefa'.
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