Duncan Smith (a graduate of St. Gregory’s Academy and brother to Philip and Andrew Smith and son of Gordon Smith) recently completed this film “Offering.”
Offering from Duncan Smith on Vimeo.
Enjoy!
-Bloch-Party
Duncan Smith (a graduate of St. Gregory’s Academy and brother to Philip and Andrew Smith and son of Gordon Smith) recently completed this film “Offering.”
Offering from Duncan Smith on Vimeo.
Enjoy!
-Bloch-Party
and is it that surprising that after wanting
to be Mark Zuckerberg and Mary Tetzlaf
was going to be Facebook, I decided not to do that at all?
I ended up entering into a party costumed
as none other than the hilarious and multi-tasking
(and not as racist as they say he is) Huck Finn.
for the equation I got a pipe (functional),
jeans, suspenders (must have), shoes like
Sercer’s shoes (you know the ones I be talking about),
a straw hat (incredibly deteriorated and dilapidated),
and some hipster glasses (I couldn’t see without them).
Candy, beer, Jager, Cigs, and a little singing and dancing to the 90′s.
we raised a glass to JFK and others still besides.
I guess I left that night with a little bit of a better idea of how
the demos works.
[ “Did you have a good Halloween?” he asked himself. ]
I went shopping at Whole Foods today.
That lady was helpful, scary, yes, but helpful.
And I chuckled out loud (they might have thought I was crazy)
in the Arizona Art Supply store.
I needed Acrylic paint for tomorrow.
***They are so self absorbed, but most emo-kids are.***
Banalities…all is banal
The State Fair has a bit of spill over garbage;
it makes water on the wall in the alley across the street.
But the sunrise and sunset and moonrise
And moonset happens each and ev’ry day.
And yet we pass this by without a thought.
And damnit that is in pentameter.
Mallapalooza from Christopher Brown on Vimeo.
Athwartships
Fair she came, and, fair she went:
Tumbling, then, tumbling spent.
Purple quartz, and, garnet stone
Were somehow, and, left alone.
How were some, then, left amain?
The fair, she came, fair she went.
Since I’ve begun teaching middle school, my intellectual life has taken a dramatic turn “back to the basics”, as they say. Well, it certainly has been a turn for the better because through such turning back, we can, ultimately, move much farther forward. Eugene Moutoux is a language professor…. (somewhere) and he has written several books on sentence diagramming–among other things.
So the main reason I’m posting this is because he has an awesome mustache. AND I thought it time to share my grammatical joys with my friends. So, just as we all enjoy taking time to re-read fairy tales and poems from childhood, perhaps you’d be interested in checking out Eugene’s amazing diagramming from basic sentences such as: The people should laugh. to the intricacies of the Gettysburg Address.
He’s from Kentucky and he also diagrams in German.

Re: Does anybody know of …
I’d encourage everyone to check out the Abbey of Regina Laudis monastic internship program. Laura and I will be putting off marriage for a year after I leave SGA so I can do this. Well, maybe not; but seriously: it’s something I’m recommending to the graduating SGAers, and it sounds like a boat I would have jumped on, if I’d known about it, upon graduating from UD.
| Land Stewardship: Animal Husbandry (beef and dairy cattle, oxen, sheep, swine), Beekeeping, Composting, Dairy Management and Dairy Products, including the celebrated Bethlehem Cheese; Ecological Initiatives; Hay Field and Pasture Management; Horticulture (vegetables, herbs, ornamentals, small fruits); Orchard and Tree Care; Woodlot ManagementMonastic Arts: Bookbinding, Candle- making, Carpentry, Food Processing and Preserving, Leather Working, Pottery, Theater, Visual Arts, Weaving and Spinning Monastic Studies: Gregorian Chant, Latin, Monastic History, Monastic Liturgy, Monastic Theology, Scripture Studies, Ritual and Creation, The Rule of St. Benedict | |||
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Bookbinding? Beekeeping? Gregorian Chant? Cheesemaking? If the internship is as good as advertised, we all need to go there!

the heart rears wings bolder and bolder; and hurls for him, O half hurls earth for him off under his feet
So… it really is true my friends. I saw them both myself and snatched this photo of them.
What a delightful weekend some of us got to spend in Scranton PA recently. I wish you all could have been there, but trust that we most definitely toasted all of you at some point, and probably sang your favorite song, and loved you while doing so.