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Category Archives: Art and culture

Naming this blizzard

The Chesapeake Bay watershed has been hit by a large snowstorm; indeed, two outsize storms since December, and a supplemental snowfall is due this week.
The sidewalks are a patchwork of the clear and dry — a crown in heaven for those responsible persons who shoveled them — or, when, left uncleared like a wet [...]

Posted 08 February 2010 † Scott Wells § District of Columbia ‡ Comments (3) °

Revisiting the newsletter

I have one, valedictory issue of the Liberal Christian to publish. At this point, I’m looking towards a spring date.
That 2009 experiment was helpful, for me, for a couple of reasons and one was an appreciation of print publications for certain settings. Also my current Esperanto studies, since that community has been heavily dependent [...]

Posted 04 February 2010 † Scott Wells § "Independent Universalist" ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

My take on the Superbowl boycott

Quite a number of people are upset about CBS’s ad-sales decisions about the Superbowl and have called for a boycott or direct complaints to CBS.
I don’t like it either. I don’t like the hypocrisy of denying the United Church of Christ a spot because of their activism (anyone can attend their churches, even gays) but [...]

Posted 01 February 2010 † Scott Wells § Gay ‡ Comments (4) °

World’s Fair Use Day

The concept of fair use of copyrighted intellectual property is probably under more strain now than ever before. The long term effects on a free, creative people are not known, but I can’t think it’ll be anything good.
Public Knowledge is producing World’s Fair Use Day tomorrow, January 12, to draw attention to this issue. A [...]

Posted 11 January 2010 † Scott Wells § District of Columbia § Events § Freedom § Open ‡ Comments (0) °

Film: Nothing more demented than Pee Wee

I blogged about a fragment of the Pee Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special a couple of years ago, but I’ve never been able to watch it all. Broadcast in 1988, it means it’s old enough to legally drink. Which would probably help for viewing, too. I mean, are those real Marines? Charo? Magic screen?
The first part [...]

Posted 30 December 2009 † Scott Wells § Holidays ‡ Comments (2) °

Film: Good Life

“The Good Life” (U.S. title, “The Good Neighbors”) is one of my favorite 1970s TV shows — the shtick, back to the land, in suburban London — and this Christmas special (“Silly, But It’s Fun”, 1977) is probably my favorite episode.
(And I’m not the only one. Or so says this Guardian blogger, writing “Give [...]

Posted 28 December 2009 † Scott Wells § ‡ Comments (0) °

Film: Christmas Noir

This is “The Bloody Olive” — a fun short film; a Christmas-themed comedy in the Film Noir style.

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Posted 28 December 2009 † Scott Wells § Holidays ‡ Comments (0) °

Books to recommend?

Good readers: I’ve been working on my 2010 resolutions for about three weeks now — it’s a lot easier to accomplish your goals in thirteen and a half months than twelve. And besides: I can hardly remember what I intended for 2009 at this point.
I’m a slow reader, but even so I would like to [...]

Posted 06 December 2009 † Scott Wells § Ministerial formation ‡ Comments (11) ° Tagged:

Unitarianism or Universalism in Esperanto?

I can’t find any classic Unitarian or Universalist texts in Esperanto. Not even Channing’s Baltimore Sermon (or the like) in some pre-WWI source, and Google’s not much help.
Anyone know of something?

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Posted 01 November 2009 † Scott Wells § Universalist history § World Unitarianism and Universalism ‡ Comments (7) °

Speaking of social relevance

How did I miss this video? Looks like it’s a serious ministry outreach, if serious is quite the right word.

HT: Jim B.

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Posted 28 October 2009 † Scott Wells § Sacraments § Social networking ‡ Comments (2) °