The Weekly Town Crier
Like water under the proverbial bridge. Another week has slipped through our feeble fingertips only to fade into memory. Stay gold Pony Boy, stay gold. Hold on to the times and browse some of what caught my eye this past week. Welcome to the Weekly Town Crier:
Read Time magazine’s piece about the new breed of “hipster parent-memoirists.”
Browse Podbop’s list of eight reasons why bands/artists/labels should offer at least one free mp3.
Read about the head of Cartoon Network resigning over the recent Boston bomb scare.
Browse the collection of Grammy nominees as profiled by NPR’s World Cafe.
Read about Christian charities being rejected because they’re Christian.
Read about Portugal’s recent referendum banning abortion which didn’t pass because of low voter turnout.
Read Justin Taylor’s “The Mormon, The Maverick and the Mayor” about the three Republican frontrunners for the upcoming presidential 2008 election.
Read about Elie Wiesel being attacked.
Read about the PA pastor who committed suicide after being videotaped entering an adult bookstore.
Read Jeremy Casella’s announcement of the release date for his new album.
Read about terrorists using YouTube.
Read this article about one case of same-sex “divorce” resulting in a legal battle over who a child’s real mommy might be.
Read about the Dixie Chicks winning song of the year.
Read about the mother who held her three daughters captive in the dark for seven years.
Read about Al Gore’s plans to save the world through rock concerts featuring such performers as U2, Oasis, Radiohead and Coldplay among others.
Read as the Baltimore Sun examines the pop culture appeal of Abraham Lincoln.
Read about Obama’s exchange with the Austrailian Prime Minister.
Read about the recently published study by three Methodists and a Jew that asserts that America is the greatest threat to civilization and the only hope is a world government.
Read about the college that recently banned the use of Wikipedia as a source for papers.
Read about the terminally-ill woman who wants doctors to let her die.
Read about the Dutch primary school teacher whose students are making an unusual school project: her coffin.
Read about the teacher who has been removed from a church high school because of her vampire fetish.
Read about the former pastor who sold his church’s building right out from under them.
Read Pitchfork’s review of the new Six Parts Seven album Casually Smashed to Pieces.
Read CNN’s post about the continuing popularity of music on vinyl.
Read the Pearcey Report exclusive report that Darwinists are upset at John McCain for speaking at a Creationist event.
Also read about McCain’s continued push to court the conservative vote that he has so long shunned.
Read why John Piper believes that “Prosperity Preaching” is “Deceitful and Deadly.”
Read this article about “Prehistoric Love,” the recently unearthed embracing skeletons.
Read Ann Coulter’s assessment of Barack Obama, which contains lines like: “This guy’s like the ANWR of trite political aphorisms. There’s no telling exactly how many he’s sitting on, but it could be in the billions.”
Read about the continuing struggle over what is and what is not “protected” speech. Is it “hate speec” to use the term homosexual?
Read the article which claims that a recent study found that 7 out of 10 people believe that marriage ought to be for life.
I love this “Weekly Town Crier” compilation! Vinyl records do sound wonderful. My wife gave me, for my birthday, a record player/CD player. Just as an experiment I’ve played, back to back, Windham Hill CD’s and then Windham Hill non-digital Vinyl records, all from the early 80’s. The vinyl recording sounds as if the performer, like William Ackerman or George Winston, is present.
The embracing skeletons near Verona do remind one of Romeo and Juliet. For St. Valentine’s Day my wife and I watched the beautifully made Franco Zeffirelli film, “Romeo and Juliet” (with Shakespeare’s words). The cinematography is very beautiful. Has anyone else noticed that the color palette of most contemporary films, by Americans and the British, has become incredibly drab, painfully bleak, grayish?
The “Weekly Town Crier” is a good bit and one of my regular Friday stop downs.
Keep ‘em coming, Brent!