Mark Traphagen | April 14, 2009
“Don’t judge a book by its cover” goes the old saw. Last week three cynical judges and a huge audience at auditions for the UK’s Britain’s Got Talent TV series got a variation on that dictum: don’t judge talent by the body it comes in. Better: Don’t assume that personal worth and physical beauty are [...]
Mark Traphagen | April 12, 2009
A popular series of commercials for a consumer credit company used the running gag of a group of barbarians invading everyday, modern situations, symbolizing what can happen to people when they don’t have sufficient capital to do the things they want to do. Just as the horde is about to begin their slaughter and pillage, [...]
Mark Traphagen | April 12, 2009
On this Resurrection Day (Easter, to those who prefer gods with long ears made out of chocolate), I want to welcome the resurrection of one of my favorite blogs: Sibboleth by my dear friend, Fuller Seminary professor J. R. Daniel Kirk. He is just back online after a Lenten Internet fast. Daniel is one of [...]
Mark Traphagen | April 11, 2009
Since about 2002, I’ve lived what seems like an ever-increasing part of my life online. Once I got over the initial thrill back then of “surfing the web” (i.e., coasting randomly form web site to web site), I settled into what has been my most abiding interest and passion: social web sites. As I’ve been [...]
Mark Traphagen | April 8, 2009
Nothing profound here today; just wanted to let our readers know that the Sun Giant EP by Fleet Foxes is on sale at Amazon.com for just 99 cents!
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
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