Archive for November, 2003

catholicity

Saturday, November 15th, 2003

Apparently Catholics simply don’t have enough fun, and in a fundamental sense, this can only be true. We are in need of saving of course, and stand a better chance of stepping out of a lifetime’s worth of lifelessness if we could but sample the other side - if not in its entirety, then little [...]

Chuck + George

Sunday, November 9th, 2003

The weekend was made whole by Chuck Palahniuk (pronounced “paul-ah-nik”), the finest of the new breed of anti-nihilist authorships. If Lullaby is an allegory of the modern novel’s (im)potency, then what of Diary? The official website at the well-concealed ChuckPalahniuk.com is crass and one-dimensional, precisely everything the writer is not. Sample instead (in the spirit [...]

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