Saturday, June 28, 2008

evil dust bunny

my computer has been dying. over the last few weeks it has been overheating and the fan has ceased kicking in to cool it off. so after about 5 minutes of operating time (just enough time to check email, but certainly not enough time to write a paper) the machine has been powering down. well, it's back. and the culprit was a dust bunny the size of my index finger that had taken up residence in the fan, blocking the cooling grates... watch out internet, i'm back.

Monday, June 23, 2008

The 3 Sisters

It is only in Beauty that Truth is good, and that Goodness is true:

"We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. We can be sure that whoever sneers at her name as if she were the ornament of a bourgeois past — whether he admits it or not — can no longer pray and soon will no longer be able to love."

-Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics. vol. 1. p 18.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

current soundtrack

Thursday, June 12, 2008

"inter-dependence"






















title: inter-dependence
medium: india ink on paper
image copyright: phil nellis, 2008

Sunday, June 08, 2008

know your game...