Apparently we don't like "To Kill a Mockingbird" anymore. →
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To Kill a Mockingbird: the backlash
Hadley Freeman
Comment is free | The Guardian
June 2010
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“England are a pathetic rabble now. Ozil and Schweinsteiger are running at what passes for their defence, time and again, at will. “Heskey on alongside Rooney?” notes Chris Bunce. “Well, Shrek and Donkey were always meant to be together.”
—Scott Murray on the Guardian’s live blog
The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan: A Play About a Good Woman (1892) [full text]
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Glastonbury 2010...More exciting than the World Cup & Tennis?
GREAT line-up this year. Apart from the main stage my picks would be:
The Flaming Lips, Gaslight Anthem (Fri. Other Stage)
Imogen Heap (Sat. Other Stage)
lcd soundsystem, The Hold Steady, Frightened Rabbit (Sun. Other Stage)
The Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Kele (Fri. John Peel Stage)
Ash, Julian Casablancas, Broken Social Scene, Holy F*** (Sun. John Peel Stage)
Mos Def (with full live band), Femi Kuti, Breakestra with Chali 2na, Matthew Herbert Big Band (Fri. West Holts Stage - formerly Jazz World. This is the best run of stuff I think, but having to choose this over the headliners - Gorillaz - would be heart breaking!
Rodrigo y Gabriela, Quantic & his Combo Barbaro (Sun. West Holts stage)
Full Line Up is here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/apr/14/glastonbury-2010-full-lineup
“Those who urge us to shake ourselves free from theology and to think – and more particularly to speak and write – only what is immediately intelligible to the general public seem to me to be suffering from a kind of hysteria and to be entirely without discernment [halte ich für eine durchaus hysterische und unbesonnene Ansicht]. Is it not preferable that those who venture to speak in public, or to write for the public, should first themselves seek a better understanding of their topic? … I do not want readers of this book to be under any illusions. They must expect nothing but theology. If, in spite of this warning, it should stray into the hands of non-theologians – some of whom I know will understand it better than many theologians – I will count it a great joy. For I am altogether persuaded that its content concerns everyone, since the question it raises is everyone’s question. I could not make the book any easier than the subject itself allows…. If I am not mistaken …, we theologians serve the “laity” best when we refuse to have them especially in mind, and when we simply follow our own course, as every honest labourer must do”
—Karl Barth from his “Epistle To The Romans” (2nd Ed.)
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But why isn’t this kid getting off the stage? Is he, no, is he about preach? Is it youth Sunday already? What, he’s the youth minister? That’s great, but this isn’t youth group. He’s way too young to school me in the game of life. Oh, but this is happening. It’s tool ate for me to walk out and leave. It’s time for the junior hour of power.
Please just don’t use that phrase that all young ministers bust out. Please don’t say, oh no, you just did. You just said, “When I was growing up.” You said it like it was over, like you’ve crossed from young man into wizened old gentleman. But you’re only twenty-four. The toughest decision you’ve faced in life so far was whether to get the full meal plan or the five-day-a-week meal plan at seminary. You went with the five? That’s good to know, let me scribble that down here in the sermon notes section of my bulletin.
But I’ll forgive you that one. I’ll let that one slide as long as you don’t give me any marital advice. You’ve been married for about fifteen minutes. You’re still tan from your honeymoon. I can still kind of smell suntan lotion on you. If at any point in this sermon you try to give me marriage advice, I am going to think about college baseball. I just want to be up front about that. The toughest marriage decision you’ve faced so far is whether to exchange one of the china sets you got as a wedding gift for a George Foreman grill that is shaped like a massive charcoal grill. Don’t, I’ve done that, I fought that battle, and it was not worth it. You need more plates than you think and less George Foreman grills than you think. Trust me on that.
” —On Having A Preacher Younger Than You. From Stuff Christian Like
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Big Brother live web stream →
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Channel 4 offers Big Brother live web stream for first time since sixth series, charging 49p a day or £1.99 a week
Is anybody really going to buy this??
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- Don’t interrupt
- Don’t garnish your friends’ story with a story about something similar that happened to you
- Don’t go “mm hmmm” all the time
- Don’t finish people’s sentences
I do ALL of these things, ALL the time. It’s a miracle I have any friends at all. Oh wait, I DON’T.
” —Esther W on what to avoid if you want be a good listener and a good friend.
Tightrope (Wondamix) (Feat. B.o.B & Lupe Fiasco)
Janelle Monae
Listen and hear how a cover version can take just an element of a song and use it to great effect.
Okayplayer says:
I really can’t stress enough how amazing Janelle Monae’s recently released debut album, The ArchAndroid, is. Ms. Monae teamed up with her labelmates B.o.B and Lupe Fiasco for this “Wondamix” of her single “Tightrope.”
