http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/ "That is my worldview that you see. It still must be incorporated into a whole, so be careful where you step." en-us houchins99@aol.com 2006-02-01T07:17:00+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/archives/000524.html Finally, after a semester and half's worth of effort, my Tuesday Night Two Stick trivia claim has achieved victory. January 31, 2006. "Sit on My Facebook" Champions. (http://www.myspace.com/twosticktuesdaytrivia)... 524@http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/ 2006-02-01T07:17:00+00:00 http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/archives/000523.html A happy vicar I might have been Two hundred years ago To preach upon eternal doom And watch my walnuts grow; But born, alas, in an evil time, I missed that pleasant haven, For the hair has grown on my... 523@http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/ 2006-01-20T02:31:47+00:00 http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/archives/000521.html Tonight and tomorrow evening on PBS at 8 PM CST. Watch it. It's like a David Gordon Green movie, but real... Frontline... 521@http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/ 2006-01-10T16:14:50+00:00 http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/archives/000520.html MUSIC 10. Spoon - Gimme Fiction 9. Mugison - Mugimama, or Is This Monkey Music 8. White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan 7. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy 6. Iron and Wine - Woman King 5. Sigur Ros... 520@http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/ 2005-12-31T01:11:22+00:00 http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/archives/000518.html I just checked out 16 books from the J.D. Williams Library with subtitles like: "How we remember, forget and reconstruct the past," and "David Halberstam, the Buddhist crisis, and U.S. policy in Vietnam." My left hand is involuntarily shaking from... 518@http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/ 2005-12-17T04:37:57+00:00 http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/archives/000516.html Even though this thing uses the internet, it's actually better than the internet: www.pandora.com It's out of the Music Genome Project, which has catalogued endless amounts of music on a number of ranking points. It ranks melody, syncopation, rhythm, etc.... 516@http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/ 2005-12-09T22:14:48+00:00 http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/archives/000514.html So, I just broke a two-year boycott of Wal-Mart to purchase the recently released season four DVD of television's 24, my own personal cocaine. Unbridled hero worship, ethical quandaries, that incessant ticking and Kiefer Sutherland's perpetual 5 o'clock shadow. I... 514@http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/ 2005-12-08T07:10:30+00:00 http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/archives/000513.html This is what happens when you turn to Wikipedia to look up some stuff for tomorrow's final. I didn't know most of these even existed: Offensive terms for citizens of the United States Amerloque – also French slang americanata –... 513@http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/ 2005-12-05T03:08:17+00:00 http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/archives/000512.html John Milbank: It’s because the medium is the message, as Marshall McLuhan put it, who not accidentally was a Catholic. And obviously I’m not saying this is true of all of the American Protestant tradition, it’s obviously not. And you... 512@http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/ 2005-12-01T05:19:02+00:00 http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/archives/000511.html 511@http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/ 2005-11-13T05:29:21+00:00 http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/archives/000510.html And even to consider which is the more absurd state of affairs, the manifest absurdity of your predicament:lost in the Cosmos and no news of how you got into such a fix or how to get out--or the even more... 510@http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/ 2005-11-13T05:20:07+00:00 http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/archives/000509.html "I'm not only concerned about streets flowing with milk and honey. I'm also concered with about the fact that about two-thirds of the peoples of this world go to bed hungry at night. And I will never be content until... 509@http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/ 2005-11-10T16:18:04+00:00 http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/archives/000507.html Just stumbled upon this doing some research for my thesis. Thought it was interesting, though cannot determine if it is consequential or not. Lousy excuse for an update? Perhaps. This city, so gorgeous from a distance, so unlovely up close,... 507@http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/ 2005-10-17T05:17:49+00:00 http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/archives/000506.html So, the only thing that can revive this blog is a picture post. Let's see what happens. Perhaps I'll start updating more. Perhaps I will not. But anyway, I never properly documented what I did this summer. So, take a... 506@http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/ 2005-10-10T07:00:36+00:00 http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/archives/000502.html I've been negligent of my weblogging duties all summer. I attribute it to a lack of time, but, you know, let's be honest with each other, most of that time I claim to be busy, I'm hitting refresh on my... 502@http://houch.vicksburgblogs.com/ 2005-08-04T04:10:45+00:00