Foolish Sage | October 4, 2009
This entry is part of a series, Manifold Witness by John Franke»
This is one of a series of posts that will interact with the new book by John Franke, Manifold Witness: The Plurality of Truth. John Franke is The Lester and Kay Clemens Professor of Missional Theology at Biblical Seminary in Hatfield, PA. [...]
Foolish Sage | May 17, 2009
This entry is part of a series, Flying Club Cup Videos by Beirut»
I need to get this series done!
Video #8 from the Beirut album The Flying Club Cup is titled “In the Mausoleum.” Here’s the video:
The lyrics are very brief and sung only once in the song:
Time travels to learn
your secret life
in your [...]
Foolish Sage | 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 [...]
Foolish Sage | February 25, 2009
[WARNING: Vain and perhaps foolish attempt ahead to try to justify promoting a friend's blog as a worthy post given the theme and focus of his blog.]
I like What Chris Likes. Chris Martin (no, not that Chris Martin, let’s get that out of the way) was one of our housemates in Philadelphia for all too [...]
Foolish Sage | February 22, 2009
Foolish Sage friend blogger Paul Burkhart recently shared this quote from an interview with poet Joe Weil:
Art is self-indulgence that, if done well, with a good grasp of the craft, and with a sense of constructive dread, ends up serving others. Of course, you can’t predict how it will serve them. . . A poet [...]
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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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