Foolish Sage | 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 of [...]
Foolish Sage | 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, the [...]
Foolish Sage | March 5, 2010
“Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man!” – Jean Shepherd as “Ralphie” in the film A Christmas Story
Recently an illness kept me confined to the bed for a couple of weeks. During that time, podcasts on my iPhone were my friend and companion. I have a number of favorites that [...]
Foolish Sage | March 3, 2010
In this Year in Which I Kick My Cancer’s Ass, I’ve finally found my theme song (lyrics below video):
UPDATE: I wouldn’t have thought the wonderfulness of the video above could be surpassed, but OK GO has just issued the “official” video for this song, which may feature the greatest Rube Goldberg machine of all time:
This [...]
Foolish Sage | January 31, 2010
A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Charming, funny, sad, witty, moving…all these describe this gorgeous first novel by Brigid Pasulka. Set in both World War II and present Poland (and the times in between), A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True is a ringing [...]
Foolish Sage | December 26, 2009
A meditation on my recent times, in the words of songwriter Stephen Stills.
Ten years singing right out loud
I never looked, was anybody listening?
Then I fell out of a cloud
I hit the ground and noticed something missing
But now I have someone
She has seen the changes
And it gets harder as you get older
And farther away as [...]
Foolish Sage | December 7, 2009
In no particular order, here is my list of the best books I read during this past year
The Sacredness of Questioning Everything – David Dark
Definitely the one book with the most profound effect on me this year. Dark says not only is it not damaging to a life of faith to question everything, it is [...]
Foolish Sage | December 6, 2009
from spiralling ecstatically this
proud nowhere of earth’s most prodigious night
blossoms a newborn babe: around him, eyes
-gifted with every keener appetite
than mere unmiracle can quite appease-
humbly in their imagined bodies kneel
(over time space doom dream while floats the whole
perhapsless mystery of paradise)
mind without soul may blast some universe
to might have been, and stop ten thousand stars
but [...]
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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 resurrections and that which is already (but not yet). Mark lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and pet Macbook Pro. He has two married daughters and six grandchildren, and currently freelances as an Internet marketer.
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