May 2, 2019 – Here are some links for your pre & weekend reading. Enjoy. Photo above taken by Ms. Jen in early april while on a walk through Irvine Regional Park in California What’s the Opposite of a Cellphone Photo? Fintan O’Toole: Are…
Tag: history
Fantasy, Science Fiction, Imagination, Faith, and Modernity
There has been quite the internet blog-o-sphere to do revolving around Michael Weingrad’s essay “Why There Is No Jewish Narnia“, which led to D.G. Myers asserting that “Fantasy is a Genre of Christianity“, where upon E.D. Kain proposes that it is not Christianity but…
Ben Hammersley: The Internet of People
British Council Annual Lecture 2011: The Internet of People from British Council on Vimeo. “1990 will be seen, I will posit, as being the first year of the great revolution that we are living through. It is also the first year of the great…
Temple Beth Israel
Today’s LA Times has a lovely article on the resurgence of Temple Beth Israel in the Highland Park / Eagle Rock section of northeast Los Angeles, of which there is a link to an in-depth essay in LA Magazine from 2008 by Ed Leibowitz…
A Few Tasty Links for Your Fourth of July Enjoyment
It is 12:41pm here in Seal Beach, California, socked in with the dreaded ‘June Gloom’, aka the Marine Inversion Layer, and it is chilly for a mid-summer day at 66F/18C and there is a bit of wind. The Sun has made no effort to…