Thursday, March 29, 2007
Thursday bloghop #9
Addendum to bloghop rules - minimum is now 3. It's too time consuming to visit and attentively read and review 5 blogs (unless I were disciplined enough to write drafts and save them in the time between Thursdays (which I'm not) and I totally do not want this to turn into a school requirement). Maybe fewer to read will give me time to be incredibly perceptive and insightful.
1. From Man About Mayfair, I chanced upon a link to Mr. and Mrs. P. which turns out to be Patum Peperium, a blog purportedly by a husband and wife living in midwest America and writing about history both past and in-the-making. It's very quirky and very Catholic (as well as catholic) and very British. There's lots about art and lots about intellectual exercise. All in a wry, somewhat sarcastic and (dare I say) sardonic tone ofvoicewords. An acquired taste, I suspect, but clearly worth working to acquire.
2. Andrew Cusack is an interesting guy who's young enough to justify his obvious bemusement with himself, and accomplished and thoughtful enough to justify ours in the same. He grew up in Westchester but attended St. Andrew's University in Scotland (arguably the most gorgeous countryside in the universe) and now is Assistant Editor at the New Criterion. He clearly is having a blast and wants to share some intellectual and sporting escapades and thoughts, to readers' not inconsiderable benefit. How many "about" sections include two international charities? And how many blogs include a phrase such as "a friend in tweed is a friend indeed". A decidedly quirky place - also highly enjoyable and definitely one to revisit often. Plus I need to find out why Charles of Austria is pictured, let alone supplicated to!
3. Random Pensées is an interesting place, a surprise because I expected it to be intensely intellectual and slightly pretentious given the Pascalian overtone of the name and all. Its author is in his late 30's and is a corporate lawyer in the NY City (which certainly made me perk up since my fantastic employers could be his). He's got a wife, three children about whom he writes "a lot" because, he says, "they are a source of never ending amazement for me" (which made me smile because it reminded me of TTCGITW). He speaks two foreign languages and has lived abroad. All of which "has confirmed my staunch belief that the United States of America, for all its faults, is the single greatest country in the world and I am terribly fortunate that my great-grandparents chose to try their luck here." He also has "a love affair with the City of New York" and loves "architecture and art history, travel, fine wines and spirits, good eats, fencing, martial arts, squash, international affairs, billiards, and good conversation". Yesterday's post/essay was a discussion of "how ideology guides and informs mental health treatment and risk education for college age, and younger, women." The previous post on going to "math day" at his daughter's school and then to the Westport beach was idyllic and wonderful. What a find.
1. From Man About Mayfair, I chanced upon a link to Mr. and Mrs. P. which turns out to be Patum Peperium, a blog purportedly by a husband and wife living in midwest America and writing about history both past and in-the-making. It's very quirky and very Catholic (as well as catholic) and very British. There's lots about art and lots about intellectual exercise. All in a wry, somewhat sarcastic and (dare I say) sardonic tone of
2. Andrew Cusack is an interesting guy who's young enough to justify his obvious bemusement with himself, and accomplished and thoughtful enough to justify ours in the same. He grew up in Westchester but attended St. Andrew's University in Scotland (arguably the most gorgeous countryside in the universe) and now is Assistant Editor at the New Criterion. He clearly is having a blast and wants to share some intellectual and sporting escapades and thoughts, to readers' not inconsiderable benefit. How many "about" sections include two international charities? And how many blogs include a phrase such as "a friend in tweed is a friend indeed". A decidedly quirky place - also highly enjoyable and definitely one to revisit often. Plus I need to find out why Charles of Austria is pictured, let alone supplicated to!
3. Random Pensées is an interesting place, a surprise because I expected it to be intensely intellectual and slightly pretentious given the Pascalian overtone of the name and all. Its author is in his late 30's and is a corporate lawyer in the NY City (which certainly made me perk up since my fantastic employers could be his). He's got a wife, three children about whom he writes "a lot" because, he says, "they are a source of never ending amazement for me" (which made me smile because it reminded me of TTCGITW). He speaks two foreign languages and has lived abroad. All of which "has confirmed my staunch belief that the United States of America, for all its faults, is the single greatest country in the world and I am terribly fortunate that my great-grandparents chose to try their luck here." He also has "a love affair with the City of New York" and loves "architecture and art history, travel, fine wines and spirits, good eats, fencing, martial arts, squash, international affairs, billiards, and good conversation". Yesterday's post/essay was a discussion of "how ideology guides and informs mental health treatment and risk education for college age, and younger, women." The previous post on going to "math day" at his daughter's school and then to the Westport beach was idyllic and wonderful. What a find.
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