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Review: Richard Toensing: Kontakion on the Nativity of Christ, by Cappella...
About four years ago, I was lucky enough to get to sing in concert performances of both the Gretchaninoff and Rachmaninoff settings of the Vigil (more commonly, and incompletely, known as “Vespers” to...
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I figured that probably the earliest I’d hear anything from West European Studies, particularly given that they seemed unaware that I had applied for next semester (as opposed to next year) until I...
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Varii (go see Watchmen) and (go see Watchmen) sundries (go see Watchmen)
A “Byzantine” monastery from the late 5th/early 6th century has been found about five miles west of Jerusalem, reports CNN: During the first few weeks, the team exposed the church’s narthex, the broad...
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Thoughts on Inception or, Christopher Nolan and Cobb salad
I’m not going to write a conventional review of Inception; I think the movie is stunning, and I strongly encourage everybody to go see it. That’s about as much of a “review” as I want to write; what...
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A few additional thoughts on Inception and The Prisoner
My treadmill viewing this summer has included a string of movies that I felt like had given me a very warped view of history by the end of it — The Queen, Nixon/Frost, W., and Kingdom of Heaven – but...
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Unlikely realities
Something that occasionally can seem like lazy historiography to me is when scholars call something “unlikely” to explain why they think it probably didn’t happen. It’s a way to argue with something...
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“Do you feel in charge?”
Spoilers for The Dark Knight Rises, Skyfall, and so on below. The UPS truck came yesterday. Thus it was that once Theodore was put down, I took a break from Cicero’s letters, and I told Flesh of My...
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Some thoughts on the Justice League rumors
Both of my regular readers might have some inkling that Christopher Nolan has been one of my favorite filmmakers of the last twelve years, that on the whole I’ve loved his Batman movies, and that...
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A few items of special (read: “geeky”) interest for sale
Howdy — with twenty-five days left before we have to be out of our house in Bloomington (with it being somewhat up in the air when precisely we’ll land in Boston), I have a few special items for sale...
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