time passeth

It’s fall, and I’m not ready for it. Party tonight with friends who have a balcony facing the Ohio river in the most desirable possible view, which tonight included fireworks and a river littered with steamboats strung with lights. One bridge at least was clogged with drivers whose only reason to stop was for to Continue reading time passeth

spamspam

I’ve only been hit once by a comment spammer, and quickly yanked the comment, but it was unsettling. And judging by how much spam I see in my mailbox every day, that one was only the first drop of a torrent. So I headed on over to Jay Allen’s site and installed his lovely plugin Continue reading spamspam

readings

Yesterday, I was noting down a lot of Mircea Eliade’s ideas on the form of early Judaism in general, and the story of the binding of Isaac in particular. Deep and worthy ideas, but unengaged. Campbell discards all of Judaism out of hand, but he is personally engaged with it — as an antagonist, at Continue reading readings