The Library of Congress prefix for the Bible is “BS.” So BS75.xxx is the Bible in Latin, and so on. Although it probably stands for “Biblical Studies” or something, it still made me giggle when I was in the Graduate Theological Union library today.
Author Archives: Anand Sarwate
My Man Godfrey
My Man Godfrey is a screwball comedy about a wealthy family that takes a homeless guy (a “forgotten man” in the parlance of the film) and makes him their butler. The play opens at a public dump near the East River in New York. Two wealthy sisters scramble down and the older one offers Godfrey (William Powell), a resident, $5 if he will go with them to the Ritz hotel. They are competing in a scavenger hunt, which, in the words of the younger sister, is like “a treasure hunt, only instead of looking for things which everyone wants, we look for things which nobody wants.” For their hunt they need to bring in a forgotten man, and Godfrey would fit the bill nicely. Godfrey, for his part, sees this little power game for what it is, and pushes the older sister into an ashpile.
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To Shorten Winter’s Sadness
Perfect Fifth
To Shorten Winter’s Sadness
Perfect Fifth, a ten-voice ensemble from the University of California, Berkeley, will present a concert of early music featuring sacred pieces by Isaac, Senfl, Victoria, and Guerrero, madrigals by Weelkes, Othmayr, and de Monte, and old carols from the 14th-16th centuries. The concert will be held in the beautiful acoustic of the Hearst Memorial Mining Building Lobby.
Hearst Memorial Mining Building Lobby
Saturday, December 4
7 PM
$5 for UCB Students / $8 general
Tickets will be available 1 hour before the concert at the door or can be purchased via phone at (510) 642-3880 or on the web
For more information, including a map, please see our website.
sticker mania
This article was a little bit depressing. Then I saw these these stickers, which were somewhat amusing. They are in reference to the case in Cobb County, Georgia, where evolution disclaimers are being put on high school biology books.
[Found this via The Panda’s Thumb]
travellin’ man
In case any occasional perusers of this blog care, I just spent a lot of money on airplane tickets. From December 20-31 I will be in Champaign, IL, and from January 5-17 I will be in Boston, although the tail end of that will be Mystery Hunt, natch.
the riot act
Cool. I always wanted to know how to read someone the Riot Act:
Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons being assembled immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George for preventing tumultuous and riotous assemblies. God save the King.
Bouteille Call
I have to try this wine. It has a monkey on it. With a fez!
weak versus false
It’s interesting to me that the Illiad is really about a few different gods having a fight and then using humans as their pawns. The Trojan War is a relgious war in that sense, but it’s not a religious war in the sense that the Greeks worship the true gods and the Trojans false ones. I wonder if this dynamic of “my deities are stronger than your deities” was a common one in non Judeo-Christian-Muslim cultures. The religions of the book share, in the construction of their monotheism, a fundamental rejection of the validity of other faiths. The idols of others are false idols to false Gods, not weaker ones. In this sense they are fundamentally intolerant religions, at least if you accept the basic axioms.
Lest I get flamed, I want to point out that I’m not claiming that Jews/Christians/Muslims are fundamentally intolerant, nor that they are the only people with intolerant views. It’s just that the rhetoric in this country of Dobson-esque figures makes the GOP out to be Gods Own Party and others as not only wrong, but evil to boot.
awash in spam
Every few days I have to clear out about 50 spam comments from this blog. It’s usually not a problem, thanks to MT-Blacklist. But an odd thing I noticed is that spammers attack the same few posts over and over again. My only theory is that they have higher Google rankings or something than other entries. Anyone else notice similar behavior?
more discussion on the marine
Is going on at Obsidian Wings, and it’s worth a read.
An Ergodic Walk 