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Post by Dave on Sept 21, 2011 18:01:28 GMT -5
I think I was in high school when that movie (from which I used the clip) ran in theaters. Wasn't as interesting to me as a John Wayne movie at that age. I remembered the song, but had forgotten where it came from until I went searching for it on YouTube when I first used it on Monk last December.
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Post by keith on Sept 26, 2011 12:57:15 GMT -5
25. Messenger
I loved that post. Of course in my life I play the role played by Grandma, being the Protestant in a Catholic family. My reaction when I first started attending mass was much the same as Grandma's.
One of the mementos my wife brought when she & her siblings portioned out keepsakes from her mother's household was an 18" tall reproduction of the Pieta. I have no idea what to do with it.
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Post by Dave on Sept 26, 2011 18:52:59 GMT -5
Hmmm. That's a tough one, the Pieta. Even tougher than the plain old 4 foot statue of St. Joseph a friend found in his garage when he bought a house from an estate in Syracuse. It was a natural coat rack, but even though he was Jewish (my friend) he couldn't bring himself to do it.
My older brother must have taken my mother's Infant of Prague from my parents senior apartment when they went into a nursing home together. I never heard anything of it and certainly didn't ask. He's not terrifically religious, just nostalgic. I'm not sure for him there's a difference.
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Post by Dave on Sept 26, 2011 19:04:54 GMT -5
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Post by keith on Oct 4, 2011 14:30:34 GMT -5
31. A Host of Angels
Poses an interesting thought point. Blogs are a type of beast that have not really existed before. Many are written as if they are private diaries or journals, yet they are posted for all the internet to read. The author may use his own name or a nom de plume and as Brother Jesse wrote, it really doesn't matter.
Where do they fit? I know that you struggled with this question last year. When Brother Jesse is published on Amazon, it will then fit into a category. I have a feeling that I will be telling my friends "Buy the book, but then you must read the blog in order to experience the Real Monk."
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Post by keith on Oct 5, 2011 7:44:02 GMT -5
When I read this it looped me back to "Black Elk Speaks" and relationships between truth and reality.  Inaccuracies in fiction: when is reshaping fact appropriate?
By Hannah Waters | October 4, 2011 Stories have the power to take us to other worlds, and no genre more so than science fiction and fantasy. But even the wildest fantasy novel has to have some basis in reality; otherwise, most readers become discouraged. (I mean, have you read the Silmarillion?)
Science fiction constantly toes the line between fact and fiction to create worlds that are plausible yet twisted. Readers easily accept premises that are obviously false, as long as they follow some set of predictable rules. But stories set in a more realistic time and place demand more of the reader: to decide for herself what makes sense and whether her disbelief can stay suspended.
My last repost about the wonders of science fiction was republished at Geekosystem last year and a commenter blew off the entire genre for being unresearched and inaccurate and, thus, unworthy of his time. My friend, one Erinrose, retorted:
Instead of finding fault in science fiction, I encourage you to reevaluate what it means to be entertained while intellectually engaged. If entertainment — to you — means reading a wholly accurate, meticulously researched text that asks of its reader to suspend her disbelief but not so much as to forget whether the heart produces blood, then you must think little of the imagination.
I agree with this sentiment. Writers should expect a certain intelligence in their audience, and readers need to be willing to meet the challenges presented by the writer. But I’m not going to lie to you: when I find scientific inaccuracies in movies and books, I react viscerally: a cringe, a wince, and, frequently, a vocalized correction. I can’t help it! I’m a very fact-oriented person, although it rarely results in an inability to reimmerse myself in astory.
But, until recently, I hadn’t really thought seriously about a different angle: what if I didn’t know enough to pinpoint these errors, and instead carried them with me throughout my life as fact? blogs.scientificamerican.com/culturing-science/2011/10/04/inaccuracies-in-fiction-when-is-reshaping-fact-appropriate/ |
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Post by Dave on Oct 5, 2011 18:08:42 GMT -5
31. A Host of Angels Poses an interesting thought point. Blogs are a type of beast that have not really existed before. Many are written as if they are private diaries or journals, yet they are posted for all the internet to read. The author may use his own name or a nom de plume and as Brother Jesse wrote, it really doesn't matter. Where do they fit? I know that you struggled with this question last year. When Brother Jesse is published on Amazon, it will then fit into a category. I have a feeling that I will be telling my friends "Buy the book, but then you must read the blog in order to experience the Real Monk." I haven't nailed down to my satisfaction the differences, but I liken a story told via a blog to a series of letters, more than a classic novel. There is a story arc in the book that is stronger than in the original blog. (I don't think most readers realized I wrote the entire original story in "stream of consciousness" mode. The Reboot Monk Blog running now has been and will continue to follow the book almost exactly, with changes the perceptive reader will note in the first hundred posts and will really see as different at the end of the book. Long ago (35 years?) I started a "novel" I called "Letters from Glenerie." My intention was in fact to make a novel from a series of letters. This is nothing new, of course, it is (or can be) a variant of a 1st person narrative. But the tone of the writing is somehow different and I felt that each chapter needed to stand on it's own rather than lead to the next. That's probably not a good technique to employ for a novel ... chapters standing alone ... but I like the form and wanted to use it. Without thinking about it, that's what Monk turned out to be, but in this case it was necessary to observe the blog format. I think you're oorect that the experience is really in the blog, especially with the graphics and music. But also, if one were following daily as it was produced, getting the feel of the serial and hopefully wanting to come back for the next installment. I use Google Analytics to measure gross counts of readers on the site and I could tell when interest waned and when it really evaporated. After the monastery fire, I really had no more story, because in my mind the tale had ended. But I cast around for another plot and while doing so the audience left, pretty much. Re anonymity, most forums and blogs I read have some folks posting who fall into a mindset of privacy, despite there being no privacy at all. And yet, as Jesse says in his Blog, there is an anonymity based on the idea that what a poster is saying isn't really important or secret, no one cares about what he says and will never meet him face to face anyway. This will not always be the case, however, as some know who have later been embarrassed by their posted words. |
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Post by keith on Oct 5, 2011 22:02:40 GMT -5
From my point oof view I think you wrote in a "stream of Jesse's consciousness" mode, although I think sometimes in my comments I confused the Jesse persona with you. For a bit of time I tried to make comments to Jesse in the blog and comments about Jesse here but that confused even me.
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Post by Dave on Oct 5, 2011 23:20:26 GMT -5
Well, for sure he's my alter ego. I can't think of much he said I didn't agree with. There were some opinions of his I wasn't entirely convinced of, however.  |
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Post by keith on Oct 6, 2011 22:24:18 GMT -5
33. Ink
The Lutheran Men's Voice has a wonderful sound.
I looked for videos of treadle driven presses. I found this:
I also found this video of a Chandler & Price:
It's driven by an electric motor but looks like a conversion to me.
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Post by keith on Oct 6, 2011 22:35:13 GMT -5
34. Money for Nothing
Why don't I remember the Prince's Trust Concert? Perhaps because I was busy earning a living and still learning how to manage an engineering department.
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Post by keith on Oct 6, 2011 22:46:09 GMT -5
35. No Time Left
The "Time of my Life" project is incredible. Who would do that for so many years?
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Post by keith on Oct 6, 2011 22:53:36 GMT -5
35. Back Up
At some point you have to fill in at least a sketch of Africa.
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Post by Dave on Oct 8, 2011 17:46:52 GMT -5
33. Ink The Lutheran Men's Voice has a wonderful sound. I looked for videos of treadle driven presses. I found this: I also found this video of a Chandler & Price: It's driven by an electric motor but looks like a conversion to me. I enjoyed the men singing, but fascinating were the looks on the women's faces. The second press above, the 12x18 was the size I worked on as a teenager in Utica. Weighs about 2200 pounds, I believe. The first press is a bit lighter. My two treadle presses, both human powered, were considerably smaller at probably 400 to 600 pounds each. They had 7x11 chases. Here are my two old presses, the Pearl No.3 on the left and the Damon and Peets Favorite on the left. They were both manufactured between 1907 and 1913. (Actually, in this photo, the press on the right is the Pearl No. 1. It's smaller but looks exactly alike. ![]() www.windsweptpress.com/images/press oa rt.jpg[/img] |
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Post by Dave on Oct 8, 2011 17:47:50 GMT -5
35. No Time Left The "Time of my Life" project is incredible. Who would do that for so many years? Snap diagnosis, but I'd say he has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. |
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