external monologue

Wow

I've always liked listening to David Brooks on his frequent NPR appearances -- always seems to me particularly level-headed. This article by him is something I'm especially grateful to see in national press, though. Thanks for pointing it out.

Nice photo!

Hey Andy, does your camera have a "panoramic" setting, or did you crop the photo to look that way? Either way, it's hot.

Thanks so much for sharing the David Brooks article. I echo Mr. Bowman's thoughts. Mr. Brooks is articulate on NPR, and this is great press for Believers.

Thanks again.

i hate matt kirby. he's so dumb, he never tells me when he gets published. i have to find out on people's blogs.

geez.

The notion of possibility tied into every word we think or mention to other people involes the constant interchange of grace / freedom or deceit / pride; many have passed this statement onto me as the very reason to not believe in the narrative of Jesus Christ, or any narrative really. Why is meaning given so much more importance within the consensual context of community? Does interpretation allow us to say whether wall street or eccumenical creeds or my buttcrack is any better than the other one? Language is indebted to a community of people and a fixed context gives something meaning (which means my buttcrack is out of the loop here); however, for neurotic and jumbled people like me and the middle-aged drunk, Steve, who spent Thanksgiving dinner with us there is only social relativism and everyday life. Next time I see Steve I am going to read him this quote by Kirby (like that, Matt?) and then pull out the theorist who said that "there is nothing outside of the text" (Derrida); we might smoke some crack together, and then we'll understand the intensity of grace which has been poured out before every letter and syllable of the day. Then the next day will start; we'll be sober in our own homes and remember again grace because there will be metaphors amidst a distracting day.

I'm tired and have to sleep; deconstruction is important.

Carrie, my little lamb: what are you doing awake at 3:28 in the morning? We both must be completely altered from the weekend...

thanks guys... no nick, i don't have a panoramic setting, just photoshopped it. i've been fiddling around a lot lately with trying to take photos with a 3x1 aspect ratio in mind (as opposed to my typical 3x2). it's fun - a new way to think through the lens and seems to work really well for certain photos like this one.

carrie... wow, umm... maybe lay off the DayQuil? but seriously, how is it that for "jumbled" people like you there's no possibility for a fixed context for meaning? isn't that the only hope for meaning? (and what makes you think you're the only neurotic one?) :)

andy--
thank you for your concern; i think i was trying to say that grace is the fixed context and sometimes it takes movies like "i heart huckabees" and conversations with every-day neighbors to remember that.... sorry i didn't get more of a chance to chat with your brilliant mind over the weekend; maybe next time when i'm in nooga before christmas.....
--carrie

I live with Carrie Galpin and I can tell you that she talks like this at unreasonable hours, reasonable hours and all the hours inbetween, with Dayquill or without, on nicotine or in withdrawal and all the substance-related and substance-unrelated states inbetween, it don't matter...and that is why I always take her seriously and never take her seriously and all the variations of seriousness inbetween, all the time.

Omg thats right! Please come see me and my friends! ;)