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Walker Percy Wednesday 66

In addition to checking out the Walker Percy documentary if you are a fan of the great man, please consider making a contribution to this project — all is explained in the video. I was able to demonstrate that a lady suffering from frigidity and morning terror and said to have been malconditioned by her…

Phil Lynott

Gee, has it really been thirty years ago? Paid my respects in Dublin. In case you don’t know who this chap (a non-Quiltonian) is, for what it’s worth here is his wiki entry. As with Nils Lofgren, Thin Lizzy should have cracked the US but never really did.   bassmusicnils lofgrenPhil Lynottrock and rollThin Lizzy

Albums of the year

If I were to choose an album of the year it would be Texas, Texas by Deltaphonic (my other recommendations below). Robert Fontenot as usual gets it (first quote) as does Kevin Quinet (second quote): [T]hese 11 tracks work just fine as road trip music for problem drinkers who like to think of themselves as one step ahead of…

Walker Percy Wednesday 65

In addition to checking out the Walker Percy documentary if you are a fan of the great man, please consider making a contribution to this project — all is explained in the video. “Yes. Death is winning, life is losing.” “Ah, you mean the wars and the crime and violence and so on?” “Not only…

Lemmy

BBC reports — All about Lemmy — an officer and a gentleman. Hawkwindheavy metalLemmyLibertarianismMotorheadmusic

Willard Van Orman Quine

Died on this day. Here’s a terrific resource for all things Quine. I wonder what he’d think about current campus illiberal fuckery? The Guardian The Economist The Telegraph Analytic philosophyEpistemologylogicquine

Walker Percy Wednesday 64

In addition to checking out the Walker Percy documentary if you are a fan of the great man, please consider making a contribution to this project — all is explained in the video. Love is always possible, even here in the ashes of my forty-five-year-old life. Something stirs, a phoenix. Bad as things are, perhaps…