I’ve been thinking about musical covers lately. Since Imani’s comment in an earlier post. A cover is when a band takes an older, usually popular, sometimes obscure, song and records it for themselves, adding their own personal touch. For some reason this seems to be happening in the world of fiction. A few examples, recent…

The Quest of the Historical Jesus by Albert Schweitzer An attempt, well, the attempt, to catalogue and lay to rest rationalism’s attempts at discovering, uncovering, or recovering the historical Jesus. That is, the real Jesus of history. The one that sort of hides between the lines of the texts. Schweitzer might actually say its more…

The Tangram is an old Chinese puzzle game where one makes simple images out of very simple geometrical shapes. It’s an old, old game. The idea of putting books on shelves, one of my many worries, is not only older, of course, but also a puzzle. As in, where am I going to put all…

I’m getting quite excited about reading Gene Wolfe’s sci-fi fantasy magnum opus The Book of the New Sun. It’s a constant temptation to drop-kick the stack of books in my office, take a long weekend and just blow through them. It’s the constant praise for them that gets me. I’ve been telling my wife it…

“Is this for real?” That’s the first thing I said after staring in dumbfounded silence at my computer monitor for a full 30 seconds. Turn your speakers up for Dylan Hears a Who. via Petrona.