The weekend cometh - the work week finished; a trip to food stamps and some tramping back for the bus, home around 4 pm and too hot for anything outdoors, a nap, a walk to McClure's, calls to E and KH, and working on this post, cleaning up my email. That has been part of my Friday, and this was the rest of it.
I think I forgot about these:
Muncie tavern to celebrate 90th anniversary of John Dillinger robbery
MUNCIE, Ind. — A longtime tavern on Muncie's southeast side on Saturday will commemorate the 90th anniversary of the day John Dillinger held up a business at the same location.
The Oasis Bar & Grill — at Memorial and Burlington drives — will observe John Dillinger Day.
Special meals that day will include a frog leg dinner — reportedly a favorite of the Hoosier bandit — and a chicken dinner, a re-creation of what turned out to be Dillinger's final meal.
Also Saturday, Dillinger's cocktail of choice, the Old Fashioned, will be available, along with the robber's favorite dessert, coconut cream pie.
The festivities will begin about 5 p.m., according to Michelle Phillips, co-manager of the Oasis, who said organizers hoped those attending Dillinger Day would consider wearing "30s gangster-type attire."
OPINION: You don't have to live in the real world by Gentry Keener
It took me until very recently to realize that my life is what I choose and so is yours. There are people who want to work a nine to five job and give their life to corporate America. There are others who do it because they feel like it’s what they are supposed to.
I, however, refuse to ever do that. I may not know exactly what my life will look like in 10 years, but for me, that’s the beauty of it. I get to figure out who I am and what I want as I go. Every day is a new adventure.
At the end of the day, you get to choose the path you take in life. Other people don’t get a say in what you want to be.
Who cares if everyone says your dreams are unrealistic? Make it your goal to prove them wrong. Right now is the time to make mistakes. There is no better time to figure out who you are. Take risks, go against the status quo if you so desire. If you are happy, nobody else's opinion matters.
General reading for today:
- Five Stories Featuring Bad Guys You Love to Root For,
- The Most Haunted Movies in Hollywood History,
- The World’s bubble: A practising politician’s historical novel of politicking,
- Blithe spirit: How Noël Coward’s ferocious ambition created his talent,
- Wish I was not here; An amorality tale of small-town teenage life,
- The big questions: What physics can teach us about the human condition,
- Sales talk: A French critic's unsparing reflections on everyday life,
- This Bastille Day, Here Are the French Revolution Movies to Watch,
- Tom Cruise, the Living Manifestation of Kino
- Building a Creative Practice
- The Impact of Book Bans on Authors
- 10 Filmmaking Books Every Aspiring Filmmaker Should Read
- How Australian actors made their mark on the big screen
- 12 Underrated Words That Deserve More Love
- The Novels & Stories of Bernard Malamud (three volumes)
From this week's Public Orthodoxy: History is Not Your Friend: Christian Pacifism and the Imagined Past by Katherine Kelaidis (very much of what keeps me reading Public Orthodoxy, and you need not be either Orthodox Christian or religious to read it.).
Some items with a bit more detail
The oldest named voice in human literature erupts into the record with a passionate prayer to the goddess Inana. Speaking forty-three centuries ago, and over more than 140 lines, the narrator names herself as Enheduana, a priestess from ancient Iraq, turning to Inana in her hour of need. Enheduana’s prayer is urgent and insistent – her enemies are closing in, and her only hope is to persuade the terrifying goddess to help her.
Who Is the Real ‘Architect’ of Today’s Republican Party?
For my part, I am struck by what we might say about another figure—one both loathed and revered in Republican circles. In 2008, I published Machiavelli’s Shadow: The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove. For the book, I asked Republican insiders what they felt Rove’s legacy would be. Rove had dominated political thought for the first seven years of the George W. Bush White House until he became so toxic he was forced to leave, having failed in his promised attempt to create a permanent Republican majority so spectacularly that the party lost the House in the 2006 midterm elections which, as it happened, brought to prominence one of the Republicans’ new nemeses—Nancy Pelosi.
“Natural magic”: Philip Davis on the unapologetic heart-work of Bernard Malamud
LOA: Cynthia Ozick wrote of Malamud, “His stories know suffering, loneliness, lust, confinement, defeat; and even when they are lighter, they tremble with subterranean fragility.” What explains this undercurrent of loss and sadness in Malamud’s fiction, and how does it coexist with the elements of humor and irony so abundant in his work?
Davis: I agree with Malamud’s great editor Robert Giroux, whom I interviewed after meeting his business partner Straus: however much he admired Malamud, however much he appreciated the brief fictional inventions, Giroux believed it was not the zanier short stories that were Malamud’s greatest achievement, but the seriousness of the novels. Giroux loved the way even the humor was tinged with a deeper sorrow, which the humor itself protected. As Malamud put it, “I like my comedy spiced in the wine of sadness.” The short stories, Giroux said, were no more and no less than experimental interludes between the writing of the major novels. And so the irony, the humor, the magic, all these sexier things are less than the seriousness they serve. Because, finally, Malamud stands for heart-work, the nonnegotiable and always unfashionable commitment to utter emotional seriousness.
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