The Misspent Life

A Brother Site

Wondering just what I will do in the future as I transition to a new lifestyle and potentially have a new set of experiences to write about I have set aside a new blog site here.  It is called The Misspent Scholar and the goal is that eventually it will consist of material as it relates to my coursework and areas of interest.  It won't have much now--I may post occassional excerpts from old material--but will begin to take form later in the year as I begin to wrestle with new issues and questions in graduate school.

As you can see, it is a Blogger site, which means it was free and therefore easy to chuck if I don't think it is worth keeping.  This is largely the way I see things, but I liked the name.

Baby Got Bible

Oh, this is hysterical!  Jonah linked to it in The Corner.

Baby Got Bible.

Whither Misspent?

It is, surely, a question that many of you have not pondered.  I know Mr. P has openly questioned just what would happen to this bog of irrelevance and pith when the life of your humble author could no longer be judged misspent.

Gulp!

It took some courage, but I have posted a comment on Right Reason.  I only hope I don't get shooed out of the place as an ill informed jerk.  You can read it here.

Rannva, Help

Please let Quicquid know if the Finnish poem he posted about is a good one.

Read it For the Right Reasons

Welcome a new blog, Right Reason, another philosophy blog.  Chances are I won't be able to make many insightful comments now, but if they are still around in a year--watch out!!  Please check it out, although quite honestly most of us are so incestuous you probably know about it already.

Quick Notes

I don't want to keep you long, so I'll just say a few things:

• What is it about the women on American Idol?  They are so BAD!
• Someone on my floor was making garlic bread tonight and it made the whole hallway smell WONDERFUL!
• Today I got scared SH!TLESS about going to graduate school
• I'm looking for a new book and I can't get into Clash...so I'm going to fall back on old reliable Flashman.  He is always good for an ADVENTURE!

A Shameful Admission

Reading The Maximum Leader today as he talks about watching Jennifer Love Hewitt in a made for television movie on the Oh! Oxygen network brings to mind a shameful admission.  I knew of this program before his post.  You see, I was watching Oxygen last night.  My TiVo, LeRoy, is programmed to record Whit Stillman movies and on Sunday Oxygen played The Last Days of Disco.  So while I was watching it I caught the promos for this JLH movie when I forgot to fast forward.  I must say that JLH looks terrilble in the promos, like the queen of the tanned, taught, leatherwomen.  It is shameful to think that The Maximum Leader might be watching this "film".

Such a Little Thing Makes Such a Big Difference

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To My Ladyreaders

Maybe I hang around here a little more than I should. We both know I’ve got somewhere else to go. But I’ve got something to tell you that I never thought I would, but I believe that you really ought to know.

You don’t have to answer. I see it in your eyes. Maybe it was better left unsaid. This is pure and simple and you must realize that it’s coming from my heart and not my head.

I’m not trying to make you feel uncomfortable. I’m not trying to make you anything at all. But this feeling doesn’t come along every day and you shouldn’t blow the chance when you’ve got the chance to say...

If we both were born in another place and time, this moment might be ending in a kiss. But there you are with your arms and here I am with mine, so I guess we’ll just be leaving it at this.