Verses Have No Subject
Mark Traphagen | March 29, 2010
“Verses do not have a subject, I should think, but a kind of shudder, as if the whole world were born again in the flash of an eye.” The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson by Jerome Charyn
League of Inveterate Poets
The out-of-context contextuality of a foolish sage
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution
Mark Traphagen | March 27, 2010
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution premiered last night on ABC television. Although the premier was a double episode, i watched the one hour first episode available online. (UPDATE: the second episode is now up at ABC.com.) Oliver is a British celebrity chef and cookbook author who has been given credit for initiating what became a complete [...]
On Teaching and Card Sharpin’
Mark Traphagen | March 22, 2010
“Lord…how did you get from tutorin’ to stealing at cards?” “They’re not so far apart. Both take a kind of persuasion.” – from The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson by Jerome Charyn
Review: An Unsettling God by Walter Brueggemann
Mark Traphagen | March 7, 2010
An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible by Walter Brueggemann My rating: 5 of 5 stars Brueggemann forces us to unblinkingly confront the God actually presented in the Old Testament, not the God we wish was there via the colored glasses of our Western rationalistic theology. He shows us that the Israelite conception [...]
The Making of OK Go’s Rube Goldberg Video
Mark Traphagen | March 5, 2010
Image by Plutor via Flickr Are they geeks who are rock stars or rock stars who moonlight as geeks? Whichever is the chicken or the egg, the members of the rock band OK Go got their geek on once again and produced the most talked about music video since…well, since their last homemade music video, [...]
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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.
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