Another Week Ends: Un-Free Shoppers, Artists, Procrastinators, Middle Class...
1. Good news for the procrastinators out there. The Wall Street Journal published “How To Be A Better Procrastinator” this week, which analyzes when and why procrastinators procrastinate–and, surprise...
View ArticleHearing Grace in Modern Art: A Conference Preview
This morning’s preview comes from Mockingbird friend Daniel Siedell, who will be leading his session, “Hearing The Scream: Edvard Munch, Modern Art and Grace,” during the second session on Friday of...
View ArticleAnother Week Ends: Taylor Swift, Tragedy’s Tragedy, Friday Night Faith,...
David Zahl is finishing up his paternity leave this week. Congratulations amigo! Love to you and yours. 1) In his “Life of Reilly” magazine series, ESPN’s Rick Reilly covered a hummer of a story about...
View ArticlePZ’s Podcast: The Black Castle (He’s Ba-ack!)
Episode 120: The Black Castle Here’s a chance to think about “legacy”, creativity, and how the batteries get re-charged. The occasion for talking about these things is a fun little farrago of a movie...
View ArticleAnother Week Ends: Erratic Anxiety, Lucrative Law, Backwards Self-Help, More...
1. A brilliant article by Eve Tushnet at The American Conservative examines narratives of moral progress in American culture – “Hedonist, Disciple, or Bourgeois?” She critiques the dichotomy between...
View ArticleVade Mecum: The Garden of PZ’s Podcast
In lieu of new blurbs for PZ’s Podcast (two new episodes went up last week!), we are privileged to bring you an appreciation of and introduction to this truly one-of-a-kind project, courtesy of Fred...
View ArticleScott Walker Is Dead, Long Live Scott Walker!
“I’m a pessimist, in that I know it’s not going to end well. But most of my songs are spiritual at the core. I try not to be too cynical about things, because it’s too difficult otherwise. You have to...
View ArticleDavid Byrne on Superrationalization Engines and the Legacy of Good Habits
A bit random: last week Brain Pickings highlighted David Byrne’s 2006 collection of pencil diagrams, Arboretum, and suffice it to say, the project is in keeping with the oddball beauty/eclecticism of...
View ArticleAnother Week Ends: AKB48, More Super Bowl, Seeing Cézanne, Failed Rehab,...
1. In the “mea culpa” world this past week, Minami Minegishi of the hit Japanese band AKB48 was publicly lambasted and forced to apologize on YouTube, where people have watched her tearful confession...
View ArticleAnother Week Ends: Poptropica Love, Retrospective Bullies, Foolish Proof,...
1) Club Penguin is one of several multimedia and game sites geared towards tweens from the ages of seven to twelve. Club Penguin itself has over 200 million registered users worldwide, and was...
View ArticleThe Language of Love: On Christian Wiman’s Ambition and Survival
Update: On May 15th in Charlottesville, VA, Mockingbird is honored to be co-hosting an evening with poet and author Christian Wiman. Details can be found on the Christ Church website. Our good friend...
View ArticleThe Great Work That Confounds All Judges (According to Albert Camus)
A jaw-dropping observation from the French existentialist’s lecture/essay “Create Dangerously: Artist and His Time”, ht JW: “The loftiest work will always be, as in the Greek Tragedians, Mellville,...
View ArticleDeath and Life in the Artist’s Studio
Our next preview of the breakout sessions at our upcoming NYC Conference comes from Daniel Siedell: In Dead Man (1995), a Native-American guide named “Nobody” confronts an accountant from Cleveland...
View ArticleThe Day of All Days: Reflections on Haydn’s “The Seven Last Words of Our...
This morning, we are honored to bring you original commentary on the meaning of Good Friday by the inestimable Paul Walker, written as part of a special broadcast of Joseph Haydn’s “The Seven Last...
View ArticleChristian Wiman on the Anxiety of Interpretation and the Sanity of a Strange,...
Earlier this week, Christian Wiman’s much-anticipated My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer shipped, and although I’m only half way through the essays contained therein, I can’t get them out...
View ArticleI Know This Moment To Be True: Some Thoughts on DT Max’s Reading of His...
We could not possibly be happier to bring you the following essay from Daniel Matthew Varley on one of our absolute favorite subjects. Please note: If you don’t feel like wading through the whole thing...
View ArticleOh I’ve Been to Prague: Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig on Truth, Joy, and...
If for whatever reason you are ever asked to address a group of college students, I’ve found that few things hit home with as much depth or laughter as the first ten minutes of Noah Baumbach’s...
View Article2013 NYC Conference Recordings: Good News That Never Gets Old
Another heartfelt thank-you to everyone who helped put on this year’s Mockingbird Conference in NYC, especially our friends at Calvary St. George’s Church. It’s a good thing most of the presentations...
View ArticleAnother Week Ends: Fairness, The Life of Wiman, Motherly Love, Malick...
1) The Chronicle released a preview last month to Wiman’s newest piece of work, My Bright Abyss, which we’ve already pulled from a couple of times, here and here, and the life and the illness that...
View ArticleWho’s Afraid of Modern Art?
Last Wednesday, Mbird friend and conference speaker Dan Siedell visited Charlottesville and gave a wonderful talk on modern art and Christianity. What made the talk compelling – among other things –...
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