1. The weather is warming up, which means my middle schoolers were extra rowdy this week. I am increasingly convinced that children are, in truth, reptiles. 2. For recreation I started re-reading The Ball and the Cross for the first time in quite a while. Chesterton's way with words is of the sort that is … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Various and Sundry
Friday Flotsam
Friday Flotsam: 26 to 48, America Lists, and ‘Godzilla x Kong’
1. First and foremost is some pretty big life news: after much searching and many applications, I've been offered a full-time teaching job with a traditional Catholic, classical education school. The only slight catch is that it's, ah, rather far. I live in Metro Detroit, and the job is in Phoenix, Arizona. Which means that … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: 26 to 48, America Lists, and ‘Godzilla x Kong’
Friday Flotsam: World War II, Political Theory, and Tarzan
1. My US History class finished up the Second World War this week. There is really nothing like that event in all of history, certainly not in living memory. The whole world goes to war, and against an incredibly evil ideology on one side of the globe and what might be described as a civilization … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: World War II, Political Theory, and Tarzan
Friday Flotsam: Miyazaki, Shakespeare, and Lame Pulps
1. I am shamefully behindhand when it comes to the work of Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki; so far Spirited Away is the only one I'd seen. A week or so ago, I took a step to remedying this by seeing Whisper of the Heart, an intensely charming, thoughtful little film about adolescent love blossoming … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Miyazaki, Shakespeare, and Lame Pulps
Friday Flotsam: Good Friday
No flotsam today. Watch and Pray.
Friday Flotsam: Caesar and ‘Scarlet and the Black’
1. Starting a much-needed break for Easter time. Don't have much time left in school after that; only about ten or twelve class days. It's rushed by faster than I thought, and I've really enjoyed my first year teaching. Right now the plan is to figure out a way to keep doing it and earn … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Caesar and ‘Scarlet and the Black’
Friday Flotsam: Mostly Movies, Some Space
1. Movie night a few weeks back was Ride the High Country, one of the great 'twilight westerns' made at a time when everyone knew that the genre was a dying breed. The stars who were most associated with it were getting older and the country was losing the classical values that had animated it. … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Mostly Movies, Some Space
Saturday Flotsam: ‘Virginian’ and Male-Written Romances
1. Had bad insomnia this week, which seems to have messed with my immune system and my cold is back just as the last symptoms were fading away. At least it seems to be pretty mild in its new bid for mastery, so I'm hoping it won't get in the way of anything, but it's … Continue reading Saturday Flotsam: ‘Virginian’ and Male-Written Romances
Friday Flotsam: Hodge-Podge
1. Intellectual Key Stone: Wealth is not money; wealth is what you own or can produce. 2. In 1856, the anti-Catholic Know-Nothing Party only carried Maryland, which had been founded as a Catholic colony, when it ran Millard Fillmore, the first major Presidential Candidate to have had a meeting with the Pope. History is weird. … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Hodge-Podge
Friday Flotsam: More Economics and Some Dante
1. Slowly recovering from being sick last weekend. Fortunately, we had Thursday off this week. 2. Monday was a special review / writing mastery day, so for one of my classes, at the students' request, I recited all the Presidents for them (I'd previously mentioned that I knew them all and promised to demonstrate one … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: More Economics and Some Dante
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