Peter Jensen preaches

Stop, Dave, I'm afraid.

The Great Commuter Race

Dirge for Two Veterans
The last sunbeam Lightly falls from the finish'd Sabbath, On the pavement here, and there beyond it is looking, Down a new-made double grave. Lo, the moon ascending, Up from the east the silvery round moon, Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon, Immense and silent moon. I see a sad procession, And I hear the sound of coming full-key'd bugles, All the channels of the city streets they are flooding, As with voices and with tears. I hear the great drums pounding, And the small drums steady whirring And every blow of the great convulsive drums, Strik

Don't slam the door
Don't.slam.the door.dot com.dot au.The site doesn't exist, but the sentiment exists. In my head. Following the progress of my six year old through the room. Into the bathroom. And out again.Breakfast.

Not everyone likes Bob Dylan's latest Christmas album
This reviewer, for example:Oh I get it...Bob Dylan wanted to put out an album of traditional Christmas Songs, as sung by a drunken Kermit-The-Frog. Well, not exactly. What I think he was intending to do here was a collection of Christmas Carols guaranteed to drive your in-laws out of your house before you have to watch them stuff their faces on your Christmas bounty....Well maybe it was Bob trying to get back at every living Christian, for forcing him to convert from Judaism to Christianity and then back to Judaism again. No, I've got it...What Bob was attempting is an Album of Christmas music that could be used to interrogate detainees at Guantanamo Bay, until they

Leaving Geneva dead
Speaking of Calvin, he wasn't that unique, nor did he want to be:We need to remind ourselves that the one truly unique theologian who entered Geneva in the sixteenth century, Michael Servetus, did not exit Geneva alive. Unique or individualized doctrinal formulation was not Calvin’s goal.From Richard Muller, "Was Calvin a Calvinist? Or, Did Calvin (or Anyone Else in the Early Modern Era) Plant the “TULIP”? Download that sucker here. Thanks to Mark Earngey.

Selling air conditioners
Asked Alan, who sells air conditioners, about this yesterday. It was 38 degrees or so.But he says you need three hot days in a row before people will start buying, so looks like it's back to square one today.