@JohnBrady Re-watching: Paris, Texas. Like most Wim Wenders movies, it’s uneven (except of course for Perfect Days) but great. One of the best opening sequences* in movie history. And Ry Cooder’s soundtrack!!! And Harry Dean Stanton.
\n* Another is the “I believe in America” opening of The Godfather.
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\n>They dwell in their own countries, but only as sojourners; they bear their share in all things as citizens, and they endure all hardships as strangers. Every foreign land is to them as their native country, and every land of their birth as a land of strangers.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/89172329","date_published":"2026-04-28T14:19:47+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-28 14:19","date_timestamp":1777385987,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89117850","content_html":"@jabel That’s really good. I’ve read (maybe in the book 1491?) that the eastern Indians had extensively shaped the forests to generate large quantities of nuts etc. for foraging, though foraging isn’t exactly the word in this case.
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\n>The Lord mounted his flesh on the fish-hook of his divinity as bait for the devil’s deceit – so that the insatiable serpent, the devil, would take his flesh into his mouth and quiver convulsively on the hook of the Lord’s divinity, and, because of the sacred flesh of the Logos, would then completely vomit the Lord’s human nature once he swallowed it.
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\nHe ain’t got no power nothin’ but he got what it takes”. A while ago I asked a car-savvy friend if there were any late-model cars that aren’t connected to the digisphere. He came up with one, a 12-passenger Chevy van. So, effectively, no.
@miljko I’ve noticed that dentistry (maybe more regulated than veterinary practice, less than medical?) is quickly getting corporatized, with more and more dental offices franchises of national brands.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/88987186","date_published":"2026-04-25T14:50:06+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-25 14:50","date_timestamp":1777128606,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88982409","content_html":"@JohnBrady We watched After Yang, the other movie by Kogonada, whose Columbus we loved. Boy is it interesting.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/88982409","date_published":"2026-04-25T12:11:41+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-25 12:11","date_timestamp":1777119101,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88982065","content_html":"@JohnBrady Scholars among us who still think AI is OK if used correctly might want to look at “Who is Blake Whiting?”, a profile of an inhumanly prolific author “who” cranks out books that scrape and repackage the work of human scholars.
\n>No living American historian is as prolific as Blake Whiting. In one week alone last fall, he published 13 books on a host of complex archaeological and historical subjects, ranging from the collapse of Near Eastern civilizations in 1177 BCE to the recent discovery of a huge Silk Road–era city in Central Asia.
\nThe article is by one of the ripped-off scholars, who interviews some of the others. They are not happy.
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\nChurch music was plainchant for more than 1000 years as far as I know: Byzantine chant in the Greek east, Gregorian chant in the Latin west, Znamenny chant in Russia, others like Prostopinije in other Slavic lands. But, apart from history, I appreciate its sobriety & humility.
\nIn our church we use more modern Obikhod tunes but usually end up singing melody-only. Some people have said it makes it easier to hear and attend to the words.
Divna Ljubojević - Agni Parthene. I listen to this often.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://abbamoses.micro.blog/2025/08/21/im-drifting-toward-being-one.html","date_published":"2025-08-21T20:17:16+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-08-21 20:17","date_timestamp":1755807436,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"69868116","content_html":"Bill Kauffman on artists spurning state sponsorship:
\n\n\n\n\nConscientious objectors who wish neither to wield nor submit to power are as impractical as unemployed poets, whiskey priests, and dandelions.
\n
The libertarian/anti-statist view has never had much of a constituency, but I’ve been thinking about how rapidly it seems to be losing ground these days.
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