here lies buried treasure

i think this’ll be my favourite piece of writing from this week. i just don’t see how it can be beaten*:

michael chabon, on childhood as a branch of cartography. relish that description and ignore the misleading title when you get there… girls get to be adventurers too. beautifully written and quietly provocative stuff this.

big t’anks go to Joel for sliding this one-of-many-gems across the virtual table.

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look right and make sure you check out david’s link at ::peer pressure is forever::
for a _great_ cornel west interview. (*serious contender)

right, pj’s are on, hot choc malt is made, time for a book and my duvet.

keep thinking…

LB

ironically longer than main post post-script…

:: i like to stand firmly in the question::

– (the ever-welcoming) jules, over on queermergent. one of my favourite quotes of the week. and maybe ever.

meant to say earlier in week and didn’t get around: if ACNA, FOCA and Anglican Mainstream aren’t your theological cup of tea then there’s some interesting thoughts continuing lately over at Queermergent, (see side bar on right) which encouragingly is building its archive of LGBTQA stories and essays from a range of theological and denominational perspectives (but all beyond homophobia and misogyny).
from the iconoclasts to the more orthodox, i’m liking the diversity, as whatever this thing that gets called the emerging movement might be or not be, to say all are singing from exactly the same hymn sheet would be misrepresentative. the latest 2 posts are exploring aspects of covenant theology and sexuality – from voices within Anglican (UK) and Presbyterian (US) contexts. i’m enjoying seeing the often (very) different paths folks trace that bring them all into the same inclusiver space on the map.

in a not wildly dissimilar vein, i see glaad has a piece on radio and “Godcasts” that are exploring faith from LGBT perspectives.

right, this time i really am for bed.

keep thinking… and stand firmly in the question.

sunday geekdom

today mostly involves art messing and my second listen to of the highly entertaining dr who audio drama Bang-Bang-A-Boom, which was a very welcome surprise gift from the lovely dr Joel.
it’s lots of fun and full of eurovision song contest humour.

i just finished Watchmen the other night. i ended up spinning it out as long as i could. don’t know what to say other than it’s a piece of freaking brilliance and lived up to all recommendations. lovedit. i think i’ll be following in my brother’s footsteps and make reading it an annual tradition.

next up Persepolis, which i suspect is going to be even more affecting in light of the past week’s (ongoing) events…

LB

good times remembered

i’ve got very little done today since i rolled out of bed at ten. been some gb09 ikon mailing back and forth going on but i’ve mostly been stuck at my laptop following the confusing increasingly disturbing reports of violence coming out of tehran on the blogs and iran twazzup*.

think i’m gonna take a break from the desk and try get on with some creating.

peterson’s uploaded more of his photos of our week in the north with words to make me smile. and blush, frankly. over there –> at Photos 4 Little Bird.

as always, lovely to be reminded of good times and how fortunate one is…

LB

*my guess would be that twitter is becoming increasingly unreliable as a source of info for those inside iran, assuming they are getting any access. this morning it was full of quite obvious state driven misinformation and this afternoon mostly seems full of ppl outside iran re-tweeting rumours without researching for confirmation and wasting everyone else’s time by offering unhelpful or irrelevant comment. and even spamming with porn. 😐