Nobody ever comments when I talk about the music I’m listening to, and besides, I don’t know sufficiently little that any assertation is somewhere between risky and a shot in the dark.

Now: What can you tell me about this?:

I chose the Maurice Denis Visitation mainly for its color and immediacy. I remember in 12th grade I was reading a cheap Bible and illustrating the margins as I went. Before Joseph was abducted and taken to Egypt, I drew a discarded pizza box and a stack of Rocky and Bullwinkle videos.

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Paragraph 2, Sentence 4:

That concept of modernity proposed much more individualist and stylized versions of Enlightenment lucidity which might resist its mythology of progress, its commitment to empiricist and utilitarian values, and above all its affiliations with a sensationalized and superficial popular culture.

– FIRST – Have you checked out the comments action on this blog yesterday and this morning? I realize this is probably just a brief burst of early summer feistiness, but it’s absolutely wonderful. I’ve just been schooled by Milligan and alan1 and rioted over by Monty Hall.

Is it too soon to say that I’m already getting nervous about the upcoming election?

For almost four years both houses of Congress have been dominated by Republicans. We’ve had a conservative Republican president who has now made two (in one case, explicitly conservative) appointments to a previously split Supreme Court.

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Note: Gemma addressed the difficulty of analyzing an article sentence-by-sentence when it is intended to be read as an organic whole.

– THE WEEKEND – On Friday, work got out early. I went to a Borders on 6th Ave., and explored. It’s quite an amazing place, although at some $20 a pop, I can see why the free hours are so popular.

It’s been almost two weeks since the Great Hunt wrapped up, so perhaps you are almost over your Scavhunt Withdrawal. It’s still going strong in me however, and everything was a little nostalgic this year since I don’t know whether or if I will have a role in next year’s Hunt.

For your convenience, here is the ordered account of Jess’ and my trip to Chicago this month:

Before the Chicago Trip.
Trip to Chicago, Part 1. Arrival.
Trip to Chicago, Part 2. The Judges meet the Captains.
Trip to Chicago, Part 3.

The last two weeks of blogging have been mostly dominated by our Chicago trip and the Hunt, but they’ve actually been relatively eventful in-and-of-themselves. Jess has continued to prepare for her new job, which begins a week from Monday. I have started working four days a week (of from three, during the school year).