Blog is back
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005 Posted in Site log / Geek | Comments OffWell, my blog is working again. I tried to upgrade to Movable Type 3.2 over the weekend, and ran into a nightmare of issues. Finally, I came to my senses today and reverted back to my antiquated 2.661. I will ...
Happy Thanksgiving
Friday, November 25th, 2005 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage, Seen on the Web | Comments OffI hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. If you haven't done so already, please check out the excellent post by Akilesh at Graceful Presence. It's a long one, but well worth the time it takes to read. Aki makes some ...
Almost There
Monday, November 21st, 2005 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage | Comments OffI haven't really been slacking. I fact, I've posted three new reviews and have expanded the First Contact, 2005 page. The whole thing reads now like a four-page mini-site, with reviews of Surface, Invasion, and Threshold. I'll be posting ...
First Contact, 2005
Sunday, November 13th, 2005 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage | Comments OffThis year has seen a dramatic change in sci-fi. Not only is there more of it on television than there's been in ages, but the quality for the most part is exceptional. Reality TV seems to be heading to its ...
Buy bewilderment
Thursday, November 10th, 2005 Posted in Mind, Spirituality | Comments OffA friend recently asked me to explain a verse of Rumi: Sell your cleverness, and buy bewilderment. I tried explaining it like this: The heart of mysticism is realizing the Mystery of God. Realizing is not understanding in the intellectual sense. A young child ...
Still catching up
Wednesday, November 9th, 2005 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage, My Life | Comments OffI'm still catching up on reading these few blogs. Wow. What I miss when I don't get to them for a couple of weeks. Your blogs demand thought, reflection, and inspire comments. This is not just a matter of reading ...
What did I do to deserve you?
Monday, November 7th, 2005 Posted in My Life | Comments OffThe last couple of days, my great intentions (ha!) of writing new pages for this site have been thwarted. I've been catching up on blogs. You, my blogger friends, have made me drunk. As I told Meredith in a comment. ...
Sufi Dogs
Monday, November 7th, 2005 Posted in Humor, Seen on the Web, Spirituality | Comments OffEckhart Tolle wrote in The Power of Now: "I have lived with several Zen masters, all of them cats." Today I found this wonderful post on Sadiq's blog about the qualities of dogs and saints.