Welsh triumph1/11/2008
Just been reading an interview with Derek Thomas at the Exiled Preacher blog in which he has something to say about that Trueman guy! And another reference to it, here.
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Vote for Lewis12/1/2007
Tony, thanks for yours. That there "Trueman" bloke has lost his marbles. After all, Lewis is English, right? Well, I know he was born in Belfast and that means he's got Irish in him somewhere, but he's English through and through. Just look at his threads and you know straight-way that he's one of them 'professor types' from Oxford. Trueman should be glad to have him on his side since he's always goin' on and on about how cultured he is and all. If you ask me, Tony, we need to bring him down a peg or two and have him 'preciate good culture when he sees it. Them there fantasy stories of his put me go to sleep in a minute they do.
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Death and Taxes7/23/2007
Trotter, I saw this last week outside First Presbyterian Church, Columbia (where Sinclair Ferguson is the senior minister). The graveyard lies right outside the door of the church and it is necessary to pass these graves in order to get to the Fellowship Hall!
"Man after me'own 'eart, he was!"
(In case you can't read it, it says: "At the Liberty Tree, Charleston 1766, He pledged to resist British Taxation).
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Soul Food in Memphis6/13/2007
Rumors of my being seen in Beale Street checking out the local Blues cats are true. I managed to hear Anne Sophie von Otter in a classic rendition of Richard Strauss' "Groovin' and Movin' with the Presbyterians" last night. Brought tears to me eyes, it did!
Trotter Trueman, on the hand, stiff and straightlaced, was givin some sort of "talk" on something called "Sacra Doctrina" in the seventeenth century! Like a freight train coming down the tracks, it was. He went on about how we need to understand "good and necessary consequence" in the first chapter of the Confession as meaning more than just a bunch of Aristotelian (Ramist) logical inferences. You had to go and read the 50,000 books these guys had in their library and understand the wideness of their worldview. Or something like that! Seriously, it was only nine o'clock in the morning and not a hint of blues in the talk. You must get the tape! I'll post "how" later in the day. Got to get back to Beale street.
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Canterbury Tales4/2/2007
Rodders, nice one but you can't fool me! That ole April Fool thing -- had it sussed before I discovered it cost $999. Knew strait'way that you's were kiddin. Something that sharp would be worth at least a couple o' grand!
Seems to me what we really need is a piece of ole softwear that gives us proper prayers, so that them there ministers who can't pray anymore can 'ave a resource they can use in morning worship -- prayers for when we're feelin blue, and when folks spite us, and 'specially when we need fixin. We could call it Mountain of Vision. Do you we're on to something here?
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Roger, roger.2/16/2007
Just in from the metropolis of Jackson, Mississippi. FBI agents everywhere in SUVs, talking into the their shirt-cuffs. Weird that, isn't it? Do they think we don't know who they are? Heard one of them saying something about "Plonker Rodney..." It's the advance security force for Trueman's visit to the South next week. Their checking mailboxes and manhole covers for disgruntled humorless types who might want to sabotage his talks. Now, Rodders, if you're readin' this here note, a fait acopian, my friend, as they say in Toulouse. We've got it covered.
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Socks, liturgically speakin'2/6/2007
Well I never! Talk about a nerve! My hard pressed wife went and bought me seven pairs of socks from the NEXT store with, wait for it Reg, the days of the week printed on them! Nifty, eh? But, as I now examine the ones I'm wearing this Tuesday evening, they clearly say "Monday" on them! It's a bit like complex liturgy: it sounds like a good idea in theory but in the darkness of 5.30 am in the closet, I can't make sense of what they are telling me. So, Reg, you see, I'm a tad confused about what day it is. Makes you want to return to Cranmer's liturgy, no?
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Stripped1/28/2007
The shinanigins of that twonk, Baudrillard-Jones over the past week have been a bit, well, al dente, as they in Spain. Know w'at I mean? I was telling this geezer from Portugal, Miguel, that 'e must 'ave some Freudian neurosomething that makes 'im wish 'e were Celt an' all that, if you ask me. Miguel, I said, doesn't he know that he's betraying a fatal deconstructionism, reducing the facts of Celtic history and rewriting an historical bias to serve a basic postmodern worldview. Seems to me, I said, that Foucalt would approve. Miguel said oeuf sur la plat, in his best Portuguese!
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Dear Rodney12/30/2006
My dear errant brother,
What's all this angst about the Welsh, look you? Beneath this desire to poke fun lies a deep insecurity, a sense of inferiority perhaps. I perfectly understand this boyo: all that psychological pressure from always being right. It must be lonely at the top, always unsure of one's historical roots: is it Anglo or Saxon? The Celts, on the other hand...
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Plume de la tante!8/29/2006
Hey Thomas, managed to recall the old password thing. Me and the boys are heading for a weekend in Phili to sort out Trueman and teach him some manners. Never you mind about anything at all; start re-writing that novel you were doing (who cares about Lawrence of Arabia, anyway; I never did. Struck me as a nancy... well, never mind).
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Cosmic!7/18/2006
Tony, thought they'd given you the old heave-ho! Good to see you back again. Cosmic!
Can I interest you in some genuine quality English football shirts?
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