Oh, thanks, tommyrot! I bought that a couple of weeks ago and forgot I had it.

Unread paperback, woo-hoo!

Now that I've moved, I have to register to vote up here before the end of September. Only problem with that is they use voter registration rolls for jury members, so I'm sure I'll be getting my jury duty notice sometime this winter.

Any Chicagoistas need very little money and a good workout?? [link]

If those had handles, I know a bunch of kravvers who'd love to go over and help him out for that little money. But the refreshments had better be alcoholic.

Any Chicagoistas need very little money and a good workout?? [link]

That whole thing almost sounds like a joke....

You know, that's about 12.3 tons. I doubt the average appartment could take that much weight (unless he distributed them evenly thoughout, but....)

Besides, even God needs a Secret Pain, don't you think?

Dangit, Nutty, why don't you read the books I tell you to read and watch the movies I tell you to watch?

The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop. addresses God's Secret Pain. In a book about baseball. Where the metaphor is subtle and transparent and subsumed into the narrative.

While I'm at it, Band of Outsiders.

I think it's equally misguided to think he's not meant to be an asshole, though. You weren't supposed to worship God because he was the nicest. You worship him because he's God. The idea that God should be benevolent is a NT retcon. When God finally speaks to Job directly, he basically says, "'Cause I'm the Almighty, that's why; you can't judge my actions." That's the only argument that makes Job stop bitching. Ezekiel makes the same point rather emphatically.

That's also how I read it. And I think the contemporary response of getting all up in God's grill and defiant is wrong-headed. If you accept the posit of the OT, or Job, that God is the Creator, then yo - a little deference. But humility is not an American virtue.

I think I watched some show about the Book of Job a while back where there were scholars saying that the last chapter or two, when Job regrets his impertinence, are believed to be by a different author.

That's what I was taught. I was just thinking about that yesterday in relation to (a) the Code enforced ending of Gilda and (b) Wordsworth's incessant revisions of late poetry, each of which got progressively worse.

These all fall under the heading: Why it's okay for me to edit things in my head despite the "official" release. The sanctioned version isn't always the right one.

I didn't get that out of Universal Baseball Association. Hmmm.

That whole thing almost sounds like a joke....

Coated in vaseline? Ya think?

Coated in vaseline? Ya think?

Well, that part could be true... or at least I'm not expert enough in the care and storage of Civil War cannonballs to know that doesn't make sense....

I mean, I'm sure it's all damp in the fallout shelter if it's 4 flights of stars below ground level....

A Chicagoista totally needs to go over and check that guy out.