Got the PO Box. Am slowly communicating the address to everyone.

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You can't go wrong with a man in a gorilla suit delivering chicken wings.
posted by bondcliff at 9:12 AM PST on February 14

I don't believe it and not just because I detest Palmo's preening style.

And yet...where did I put that Latin grammar.

If you're in NYC, you have to go see the current Onnasis foundation art exhibit on 51st next to St. Patrick's, From Byzantium to Modern Greece: Hellenic Art in Adversity, 1453–1830. I found the ecclesiastical stuff and the War of Independence stuff and some of the non-costume traveler's paintings all very interesting. The household goods type stuff looked good too, but didn't get to much of a chance to look at it. Wasn't as impressed by costumes and pics of costumes and am somewhat tired of maps (went to see that big map exhibit at the NYPL).

Renewed the samueljhoward.us address for this site for another 2 years. .com, .info, .name and a bunch of others are still available, but I don't think I need them.

I ponied up for a paid LibraryThing account. Now I just have to log all the books!

Whoa.

So in the recent publicity over the National Prayer Breakfast, I read this article, "Jesus Plus Nothing", from Harper's, about the group that runs the National Prayer Breakfast.

A dozen guys living together, focused on Christian fellowship, near D.C., somehow associated with the National Prayer Breakfast. This sounded familiar. Oh yeah...The Jonathan House.

See the history of the Jonathan House, from the Internet Archive.

And, we read, the Coe family involved both places.

Now the Jonathan House is not as wierd as the folks in the Harper's article are made out to be and I don't really trust the reporter, but I still feel kind of mystified about the way in which this linking was so mysterious and yet apparently so important.

Pictures are up of Thomas and my trip to hear Cardinal Dulles (we heard his lecture, but he was in the hospital so the Chairman of the Theology Dept. at Fordham read it).

So I've applied for a post-office box at Rockefeller Center Post Office to work around this mail not getting delivered problem. Now, in order to get this they have to send me a certified letter to prove my address (since my drivers license is out of state). So hopefully that will get through!

I was surprised by how little it costs. $50 a year for the small box and $80 for the next larger size (prepaid per 6 months), there are also some larger sizes, but I don't remember what they cost.

Slashdot:

Post:

"I guess these days you could send flowers with "call me" just as fast as a telegram. Or hire one of the dancing monkey-suit people or a clown to sing a song about not being able to make the plane."

Reply:

"Or hire one of the dancing monkey-suit people or a clown to sing a song about not being able to make the plane.

"So, essentially, we've given up traditional telegrams and they can now only be delivered by dancing people in monkey suits. And the world becomes just a little bit awesomer."

(By the way, some people in the thread were smart enough to point out that, though much media reported incorrectly, only Western Union discontinued telgram service. Lots of other people still willing to send them for you.)

Apropos of (Merriam-Webster says it's officially English not French) overhead conversation at T.G.I.Friday's, I don't think that one can morally seek either fame or being a famous X as a goal in itself. The young woman in T.G.I.Friday's wanted to be a "famous singer". One could seek fame so as to be able to do moral goal Y: I want to be a famous singer so I can spread true religion/alleviate hunger/support my family, but not simply for it's own sake.

(does that help Steve?)

I'm off Thursday and Friday. Gotta get my glasses fixed, the one of the rubber nose pieces cracked and fell off.

My brother informs me today that he's still waiting for a plane.

Sometimes I do wish the president had a greater facility with English. "Judge Alito is imminently qualified..." I think that was "eminently" Mr. President.

A number of places I've seen it reported that the NY Times got the miner story right--that is that they stuck with "reports" or "family members say". This picture shows that's not true.

Joel Stein and his Little Red-Haired Girl (Wikipedia for the allusion) , in the LA Times.

Thomas and I were just here this weekend.

SJahaza: http://www.theyoungamericansproject.com/profile.html
SJahaza: i went to high school with brendan mcquillen
Jeanetta: is that a cult compound?
SJahaza: umm..no...it's an organic farm
Jeanetta: cult
SJahaza: you're just jealous
Jeanetta: actually? yes.
SJahaza: i know
SJahaza: i wasn't kidding
Jeanetta: damnit

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