Foolish Sage | March 16, 2009
This entry is part of a series, Flying Club Cup Videos by Beirut» I’m blogging through the series of videos made to accompany the album Flying Club Cup by Beirut (aka Zach Condon and band). Song #6 is The Penalty. Here’s the video: These Flying Club Cup videos have been a journey through a mythic [...]
Foolish Sage | March 13, 2009
“What’s on your mind?” That one little question signals the recognition of a sea change in the social media world. This past week Facebook rolled out another Facelift of the homepage seen by its subscribers. Among the many flashier changes, it would be easy to miss the one I think is most significant. To prompt [...]
Foolish Sage | March 10, 2009
Few deserve more to be in the League of Inveterate Poets Hall of Fame than author-critic-gadfly G. K. Chesterton. I hope to write much more about him in the future, but for today I wanted to point you toward a wonderful resource: List of every G. K. Chesterton work published on the Web. Hmmm…a League [...]
Foolish Sage | March 4, 2009
These pages may fall silent for a few days. I will be in Philadelphia to take care of some business and visit family and dear friends. I may try to sneak in a brief post or two, but no promises. In the meantime I leave you with the wonderful quote in the title of this [...]
Foolish Sage | March 3, 2009
[The Bible] is not God’s word because it somehow manages to extricate itself from its historical setting or ancient conventions of communication, by the skin of its teeth. We are in no position to declare what genres of literature the Spirit can or can’t use, and our theological comfort level is not a determining factor [...]
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Mark Traphagen (aka Foolish Sage) is a lover of dark beers and darker music, of things that are but are not as they seem, of contexts taken out of context to become new contexts, of stories that point to a bigger Story. Mark lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and pet Macbook Pro. He has two married daughters and six grandchildren, and works by day for Virante, an Internet Marketing firm.Proudly Powered by WordPress | Theme by The Cloisters | Entries RSS Comments RSS
