The Flatland Almanack

Updates for 17 August 2006 (Just Eat the Damn Peach)

This is a frequently updated list of posts I moved from my previous blog, "Just Eat the Damn Peach."

BOOKS FOR THE BORED, DEPRESSED, AND STRESSED

• Comfort Food for the Psyche:  Why I Love the Novels of Ann Tyler 
• "A Modicum of Blood, Shed Deliberately and Carefully Husbanded."  Ghost Stories:  Treat them Gently! 
• Updike for the 21st Century:  Let Us Praise Him with Faint Damns.
• Second-Hand Bookstore Gold:  H.H. Munro (Saki)
• Lynda Barry Rocks My World:  The! Greatest! of! Marlys!, One Hundred Demons, and Cruddy.
• It's Always About the Templars.  Umberto Eco:  Foucault's Pendulum (Translated by William Weaver).

TELEVISION, FILMS, & MUSIC FOR THE JADED

• The Office (UK):  Accept No Substitutes.  How Watching It Will Improve Your Life.
• To do a Proper Gallows Laugh Requires a Stiff Upper Lip:  The British Gift for Mordant Comedy.
• Peter Sellers rocks The Party. 
• Compare and Contrast:  Guilty, Frothy Television pleasures: Footballer's Wives vs. Desperate Housewives.

WEBSITES AND PAST-TIMES FOR RELIEVING ANGST

• That's Television WITHOUT Pity
• Diverse Delights:  Manolo the Shoeblogger 
• Go Fug Yourself:  Tasty Schadenfreude at One of the Net's (and Typepad's) Most Popular 
• Recommended for the Jaded:  Ohmigod, it's so cuuuuuuuute!  The Addictive Bliss of Cute Overload.

This is a frequently updated list of posts I moved from my previous blog, "Just Eat the Damn Peach."

BOOKS FOR THE BORED, DEPRESSED, AND STRESSED

• Comfort Food for the Psyche:  Why I Love the Novels of Ann Tyler 
• "A Modicum of Blood, Shed Deliberately and Carefully Husbanded."  Ghost Stories:  Treat them Gently! 
• Updike for the 21st Century:  Let Us Praise Him with Faint Damns.
• Second-Hand Bookstore Gold:  H.H. Munro (Saki)
• Lynda Barry Rocks My World:  The! Greatest! of! Marlys!, One Hundred Demons, and Cruddy.
• It's Always About the Templars.  Umberto Eco:  Foucault's Pendulum (Translated by William Weaver).

TELEVISION, FILMS, & MUSIC FOR THE JADED

• The Office (UK):  Accept No Substitutes.  How Watching It Will Improve Your Life.
• To do a Proper Gallows Laugh Requires a Stiff Upper Lip:  The British Gift for Mordant Comedy.
• Peter Sellers rocks The Party. 
• Compare and Contrast:  Guilty, Frothy Television pleasures: Footballer's Wives vs. Desperate Housewives.

WEBSITES AND PAST-TIMES FOR RELIEVING ANGST

• That's Television WITHOUT Pity
• Diverse Delights:  Manolo the Shoeblogger 
• Go Fug Yourself:  Tasty Schadenfreude at One of the Net's (and Typepad's) Most Popular 
• Recommended for the Jaded:  Ohmigod, it's so cuuuuuuuute!  The Addictive Bliss of Cute Overload.

Update to 17 August 2006 (to Anglo-Saxon Attitude: The Anglophile's File)

This is a frequently updated list of posts in this blog (by category).  Scroll down to read the two most recent posts (as for any blog); or click on these links to find a particular post.  You can view all posts under a particular topic by clicking on the category name in the sidebar; see a list of recent posts in the sidebar; or review the weekly archives. 

This blog is one "sub-weblog" of our main blog, The Flatland Almanack.  Please do visit us there! I will try to post a note on this topic every week or so, but The Flatland Almanack is my daily blog.  This one is for longer pieces.

ENGLISH ACCENTS

• Estuary Englishman

ENGLISH CULTURE GENERALLY

• English Placenames:  The Cirencester Problem
• (I Know There is to Know About the) Glaring Game
• The Glaring Game (Part 2):  Nature or Nurture?
• God is an Englishman.  He Lives Upstairs (but We Never Mention Him)
• The Very Cruel Poll & Mr. Rumcove's 4th of July
• Wandering Scribe?
• An Update on the Cirencester Problem

ENGLISH FOOD

• Tea.  How It Happened to American.
• English Food, American Tourist (Part 1)
• English Food, American Tourist (Part 2):  Candy

ENGLISH TELEVISION

• The Office (UK)---Accept No Substitutes
• To Do a Proper Gallows Laugh Requires A Stiff Upper Lip

THE RUMCOVE PAPERS

• Two Floridas.  One of Them You Know.  Mr. Rumcove Prefers the Other One.
• No Ordinary Profile:  The Talented Mr Rumcove

This is a frequently updated list of posts in this blog (by category).  Scroll down to read the two most recent posts (as for any blog); or click on these links to find a particular post.  You can view all posts under a particular topic by clicking on the category name in the sidebar; see a list of recent posts in the sidebar; or review the weekly archives. 

This blog is one "sub-weblog" of our main blog, The Flatland Almanack.  Please do visit us there! I will try to post a note on this topic every week or so, but The Flatland Almanack is my daily blog.  This one is for longer pieces.

ENGLISH ACCENTS

• Estuary Englishman

ENGLISH CULTURE GENERALLY

• English Placenames:  The Cirencester Problem
• (I Know There is to Know About the) Glaring Game
• The Glaring Game (Part 2):  Nature or Nurture?
• God is an Englishman.  He Lives Upstairs (but We Never Mention Him)
• The Very Cruel Poll & Mr. Rumcove's 4th of July
• Wandering Scribe?
• An Update on the Cirencester Problem

ENGLISH FOOD

• Tea.  How It Happened to American.
• English Food, American Tourist (Part 1)
• English Food, American Tourist (Part 2):  Candy

ENGLISH TELEVISION

• The Office (UK)---Accept No Substitutes
• To Do a Proper Gallows Laugh Requires A Stiff Upper Lip

THE RUMCOVE PAPERS

• Two Floridas.  One of Them You Know.  Mr. Rumcove Prefers the Other One.
• No Ordinary Profile:  The Talented Mr Rumcove

Update for 17 August 2006 (Love in the Time of the Internet)

Has the expense of spirit got you down?  Shakespeare and I sort it all out.

This is a frequently updated list of posts in this blog (by category).  Scroll down to read the two most recent posts (as for any blog); or click on these links to find a particular post.  You can view all posts under a particular topic by clicking on the category name in the sidebar; see a list of recent posts in the sidebar; or review the weekly archives. 

This blog is one "sub-weblog" of our main blog, The Flatland Almanack.  Please do visit us there! I will try to post a note on this topic every week or so, but The Flatland Almanack is my daily blog.  This one is for longer pieces.

ADVICE

• It's Just NOT that simple:  Reflections on He's Just Not that Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tucillo [review]
• Perils of Present-Giving
• More Help for Singles! Why You're Still Single by Linda Holmes and Evan Marc Katz and some preliminary-to-reading-it reflections on the general subject.
• Look, Look!  A Good Relationship Book!  Why You're Still Single by Evan Marc Katz and Linda Holmes
• Some recommendations for those suffering from a break-up or a heartbreak.

THAT EXPENSE OF SPIRIT:  RELATIONSHIPS IN GENERAL

• Toxic Love and Sonnet 36.
• Love in Midlife:  How to Fail at Finding It (Bonus:  Sonnet 57)

WEDDINGS:

• Advice to Brides Planning "Dream Weddings":  Don't.
• An Ideal Ceremony---A Key West Wedding.
• Forget the Wedding Planner:  Damozel's Hints for a Unique & Truly Memorable Wedding.

Updates for 17 August 2006 (to "The Heretic's Handbook")

Here are all updates to date to "The Heretic's Handbook."

A MARGINAL CHRISTIAN'S READING LIST

• The Jesus Papers, The Jesus Dynasty, The Gnostic Gospels, and What I Learned from Them.
• Was Jesus Married to Mary Magdalene (or anyone)?  Why this Heretic  Prefers to Think Not.

JESUS IS THE "CHRISTIAN LEFT."

• The Odor of Sanctimony
• The Barbarians at Our Gates Are Us:  The Duty of a Christian to Oppose the Death Penalty.
• There by the Grace of God Go Those Others:  the Hardest Party of Christian Charity.
• The Greatest of These is Empathy
• Christianity, Christ, and Mel Gibson
• Jesus IS the  "Christian Left."

MODES OF THOUGHT.

• "Infinite and Unforeseen."  Quakers, Cathars, T.S. Eliot, & Me
• Chaotic Simplicity

THE CHURCH OF CHRIST WITHOUT CHRIST:  CHRISTIANITY VS. "CHRISTIANISM"

• "Christianity" vs. Christianity.
• So-called "Christians."  They've hijacked my religion.
• Fighting Back Against the Church of Christ Without Christ:  Why Secular Humanists Need Left-Leaning God-Botherers Like Me.
• Christianity, "Christianity," and Ann Coulter.

THE HERETIC'S EPISTLES

• First, Take that Plank Out of Your Own Eye [sexual sin in Leviticus]
• A Marginal Christian Looks at Corporal Punishment, Sexual Assault, Transvestitism, Divorce, and Crushed Testicles in the Old Testament.

Updates for 17 August 2006 to the Flatland Almanack (Versus/Reversus)

  Now that the work's (mostly) done, I am loving my new Type Pad home.  Its ability to accommodate my artwork (or "artwork") without my having to learn HTML has changed my whole concept of blogging.  It's already worth every penny.

Below is the list of content included in the newly renamed Versus/Reversus.  I feel strongly about linking everything together; for one thing, it makes it easier for search engines to find material in this site.

I've included all content to date, including the one or two pieces that I posted here.

BLOG CONTENTS

This is a frequently updated list of posts in this blog (by category).  Scroll down to read the two most recent posts (as for any blog); or click on these links to find a particular post.  You can view all posts under a particular topic by clicking on the category name in the sidebar; see a list of recent posts in the sidebar; or review the weekly archives. 

This blog is one "sub-weblog" of our main blog, The Flatland Almanack.  Please do visit us there! I will try to post a note on this topic every week or so, but The Flatland Almanack is my daily blog.  This one is for political opinions.

I've included things I posted to my previous blog (even those expressing opinions I no longer necessarily hold!)  You will see the dates of the older material next to the "button."

ASKED & ANSWERED!

• Pat Buchanan Slams Bush on Israel Policy; Asks "Where Are the Christians?"  Asked and Answered!  July 21, 2006.

COLLECTED COMMENTARY [MEANING OTHER PEOPLE'S]

• Compare & Contrast: Commentary on the Hamdan Case.  June 20, 2006

[ANN] COULTER & THE COULTERETTES.

• Cry Havod & Let Slip the Dogs of War!  The Sayings of Ann Coulter  September 10, 2005
• Come on; she's good for a laugh.  How to talk about Ann Coulter (if we really must)  June 12, 2006
• Estrich on Coulter:  Sympathy for the Mean Girl   June 16, 2006
• Secret Left-wing Coulterphiles   June 18, 2006
• Ann Coulter "Praises" Senator Lieberman  June 22, 2006
• Coulter Out-Coultered!  Or, Thank God I'm a Democrat, Some More.  June 30, 2006.
• Melanie Morgan & Ann Coulter Throw Down Over Which Gruesome Method of Execution Most Becomes a "Traitor." July 16, 2006.

HEROES OF THE RESISTANCE.

HEROES OF THE RESISTANCE.

• To Bill Maher:  Papa, Don't Preach!  Oh, I kid Bill Maher!  Well, sort of.  August 21, 2005.
• Deliver Us, Bill Maher.  September 10, 2005.
• Bill Maher's Closing Summation on Real Time with Bill Maher. September 16, 2005.
• Where Have You Gone Edward R. Murrow?  A Nation Turns its Lonely Eyes to You [and George Clooney]  September 16, 2005.
• "People Need to Laugh All the More When Things Are Bleak."  June 22, 2006.

MY HOUSE, DIVIDED!

• My House Divided (And You Know the Rest of the Line).  July 22, 2006.

PATRIOTIC.

• Don't Put Out More Flags

PLAUDITS.

• Flip-flopping:  It's Never the Right Thing to Do, though Sometimes It's the Right Thing.   July 26, 2006.
• Burt Bacharach on "An Inconvenient Truth."  August 12, 2006.

SHAME SHAME SHAME.

• Some Republican "Humor."   June 22, 2006.
• The Death of Ken Lay:  Let the Unseemly Gloating and Pious Moralizing Begin!  Or, when Good Democrats Behave Like Bad Republicans.   July 6, 2006.

THE CONSOLATION OF MOCKERY.  [Warning:  this is where I vent my spleen.  It doesn't happen often---I wrote this in July 2005, in a really bad mood---but I've been told that when I do, my tone is "strident"]

• Suffering Fools Gladly:  The Consolation of Mockery  July 5, 2005.

THE FAULTY REASONING ALMANACK.

• The Morning After Pill and the Problem of Belief in Beliefs.  July 16, 2005.
• Crime and Punishment:  Children's Edition (Part 1).  July 18, 2005.
• Crime and Punishment:  Children's Edition (Part 2).  July 19, 2005.
• Overturn the Constitution in the Name of the Lord!  Notes Toward Achieving a Theocracy.  August 14, 2005.
• Flip-Flopping:  Why Right-wingers think it's a BAD Thing. August 22, 2005.
• Wendy McElroy, Stop Making Sense!  Oh, Wait.  August 23, 2005.
• Regrettably, It's Got to be Said [Christopher Hitchens].  September 5, 2005.
• Embryonic Stem Cell Research & the Veto.  July 19, 2006.
• The Embryo Huggers vs. PETA.  July 20, 2006.
• Things Your Representatives Don't Know About Embryonic Stem Cell Research.  July 22, 2006.

WALK ME OUT IN THE MORNING DEW, MY HONEY.

• "It Ain't No Use You Worrying About All Those People; You Never See Those People Anyway."  September 3, 2005.
• "It's All Working Out So Well for Them!"  September 6, 2005.
• I Know You Are, but What Am I?  September 7, 2005.
• Israel's War.  August 9, 2006.
• "These Are the Times We've Been Waiting For!"  End Times Christians and Mideast Policy.  August 10. 2006.

Updates for 17 August 2006 (to Floridiana Gloriana)

This is material I moved from my "Floridiana Gloriana" blog to this address.

CONTENTS OF THIS BLOG:

FOUR 'ESSAYS', SORT OF.

• A North Floridian Visits the Conch Republic.  In some ways exactly what I expected; in some ways exactly what I didn't.
• We're Still Here.  Thoughts on the hurricane that didn't happen and a beautiful photograph from the nature coast.
• Living In & Seeing North Florida (plus a photograph).  Florida for Floridians---why you should always take the side roads.
• Travelling Back to Old Florida.  U.S. Highway 19, North Florida.

VIEWS OF THE SUWANNEE RIVER  [THE NATURE COAST]

Way down on the Suwannee---a winter scene;   Fisherman Going Home;  Cypress Trees & Knees.

FORT ISLAND GULF BEACH [THE NATURE COAST]

• A view of the beach; 
• Green Bucket;
• Citrus County Wetlands; 
• Wild palms; 
• Fisherman & son; 
• Palms, rock, & water---Florida's rockbound coast

ALLIGATOR ALLEY [NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA]

• Baby Alligator; 
• BIG Alligators---lots of them--- at Silver Springs Nature Park.

SUNSETS, EAST & WEST [THE SPACE COAST, THE NATURE COAST]

• In the City of Saint Augustine, along the Riverbank; 
• Over the St. Augustine rooftops; 
• In Cedar Key.

KEATON BEACH, FLORIDA [OLD & NEW] [THE NATURE COAST]

• Umbrella Panorama; 
• A View Along the Canal; 
• A Walk Across the Water

TIN ROOF LIGHTS [NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA]

• Tin roofs giving back the sun;
• Tin building giving back the light;
• Tin roof giving back the sky

SCENES FROM THE ATLANTIC COAST [THE SPACE COAST]

• Beachflower; 
• Flagler Beach---Morning By the Pier; 
• The Atlantic in the Late Afternoon Light

LAKE LOCHLOOSA [NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA]

• The Silver Trees of Lake Lochloosa;
• Shooting Straight into the Sun at Lake Lochloosa; 
• The gazebo on Lake Lochloosa; 
• The gazebo at Lake Lochloosa:  a winter perspective;
• Lochloosa in the summertime;
• Lake Lochloosa in the summertime 2.

FLOWERS, WILD & TAME [NATURE COAST, NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA, SPACE COAST]

• Somewhere in North Florida One Winter Afternoon---The Light in the Pines & the Purple "Grass"; 
• Melrose, Florida---The Flower Wagon; 
• Atlantic Coat---red lily, yellow iris, opalescent clouds.

"EXCELLENT BIRDS" [NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA, NATURE COAST, SPACE COAST]

• Seagulls in Flight on the St. Johns River---Palatka, Florida;
• Fort Island Gulf Beach---"No Animals Allowed!";
• Toddler with Gulls---Flagler Beach.

MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS HISTORIC STATE PARK [NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA]

• Wondrous Place; 
• The Barn; 
• The House

THE STRANGE MYSTIQUE OF ELDERLY HOUSES [NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA]

A BEAUTIFUL WESTERN FLORIDA CANAL  [NATURE COAST]

FOUR NORTH FLORIDA WINTER SCENES [NATURE COAST, NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA]

• Alachua County;
• North Florida [unsure of location];
• Salt Creek (on the Mouth of the Suwannee River);
• North Florida [unsure of location]

JACKSONVILLE.

• Evening views from the St. Johns River.