Sunday, November 26, 2006

Edward T. Babinski asks some good questions Here's one: "The following three questions are all closely related and really amount to one question. Why did the risen Jesus only appear to his followers, and to only one previously obscure enemy among the thousands opposing his Gospel? Why didn't he appear to Pilate or Herod or Caiaphas or the Roman Senate? Why didn't he also appear to deliver the Gospel to China--or to the Americas, as the Mormons claim he did?" 8:26:40 PM    comment []

Dylan Video: East Rutherford, NJ (21-Jul-86) Audience-shot video with overlayed qualilty sound recording, this is from the first tour with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Bob smiles and laughs a lot, but like a lot of the 80s stuff, the smiles, the comraderie, the bonhomie feels a little forced, just like the sleeveless vest and gloves feel fake. That said, Bob's in good voice, sometimes the laughs do feel real, and when he's talking sometimes you can hear the Bob of 20 years earlier. The video's shaky, the color isn't balanced right, so you have to be a bit committed to the thing to watch it. And my gripes aside, sometimes he really rips into a line, a few times in Like a Rolling Stone, that make it all worth it. Bob can really sing and The Heartbreakers can really play. 5:35:55 PM    comment []

Against the Day After reading largely negative review of the new Pynchon in The New Yorker, I wasn't very enthused. But today's New York Times has a review that makes the book sound like it's a lot of fun. I never did read Mason & Dixon, and that one too sounds good; I'll pull it off the shelf. (By the way, be sure to check out Christopher Buckley's superb Jeeves and W, in this week's New Yorker. Very good stuff.) 5:33:28 PM    comment []

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