Monthly Archives: May 2006

A movie slump

Herbie: Fully Loaded Even when Matt Dillon is trying to be a NASCAR driver, he still sounds like Matt Dillon. Even when Justin Long is trying to be an auto mechanic, he still sounds like Warren Cheswick. Even when a … Continue reading

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He’s walking! He’s walking!

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Micah high-steppin’ it

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Micah sporting his bright orange ear plugs

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The next great orator?

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Mom and Micah play with bubbles

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Mary poses with our new Toyota Matrix

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He’s graduated to real cell phones now…?

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More Movies

Walk the Line My brother Ryan was right: this was basically Ray with white people. Joaquin Phoenix (the hardest-to-spell actor that I can think of at the moment) looks more like Elvis than the actor who plays Elvis in the … Continue reading

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Did I miss the nineties?

Spending the first half of last decade in a suburban Indiana high school wasn’t a bad gig: I got a good high school education, built up some discipline and leadership learning to be the bass drum line’s captain at the … Continue reading

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Honest Boethius

Just finished The Consolation of Philosophy yesterday. The final three chapters deal with those lovely questions of divine foreknowledge, determinism, and human agency. Boethius, an unapologetic Platonist, unsurprisingly advances the Platonist argument that the same action that seems undetermined to … Continue reading

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Return of the Blog

The school year is over. I uploaded my grades yesterday, and within an hour I was back in the books, reading what I want to read. Mary and I have also rejoined Blockbuster online, so I’ve watched a fair number … Continue reading

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