Reed devouring bacon a few weeks back. That is all.(Sup, Jeff?)
Archive for March, 2010
Guns for the Suppression of Martians in the name of Ignorance-Squashing Science
17
Mar
This sums up why I love Atomic Robo so much:
From Atomic Robo and the Shadow from Beyond Time #3.
Oh, and it will exceedingly difficult not to post panels from the above series in the coming weeks.
Guess Who’s Back?! (and guess his special skill)
16
Mar
Reed is back from his trip down to Versailles! My mom and dad were nice enough to take him off our hands for a few days as we prepared to put an offer down on a house. My mom took him down Saturday night and brought him back tonight.
Oh, and before he went down to V-Town, we discovered a new skill of Reed’s. The Malloy’s took a trip out of town and in light of that, we took down the gate which blocks off the stairs from the living room. As Reed was playing in the living room, he zoomed over to his mom, who was in the laundry room.
Or so I thought.
Knowing his predisposition towards observation and exploration of new phenomena, I asked Meredith if Reed was with her. Upon her response in the negative, I leaped into Reed’s field of view and beheld the following:
Man.
Oh hey, while your here, check out some of the other recent pics: If you want the album link, here you go.
The House we hope to buy
16
Mar
Meredith and I seem to never be home anymore. If we aren’t working, then we are driving around Columbia or in meetings in our realtor’s office. But, hopefully, all of this is going to pay off soon.
We put in an offer on a house last night.
It’s a short sale, which means we would be getting more house than we could buy in terms of its appraised value. It has a great floor plan and lots of space. Here are some pics:
Features we like: jetted tub, 3 nice sized bedrooms and a dining room (we’d likely make the dining room the office), a MBR closet that opens into the laundry room, which then opens into the other hallway (the one with the other bedrooms), large garage, nice privacy-fenced back yard (for Reed to scamper about), spacious kitchen (and no green counter-tops! 
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Features we don’t like: Steep driveway that opens up to a quasi-busy street (why the house has not sold in a year), previous tenants were smokers (shampoo carpets and paint, paint, paint).
The thing that really sucks is that Bank of America has so many short sales and foreclosures to deal with, they are bogged down. While there is a law in effect that says you have to respond to offers within 10 days, BOA tells people 45. In order to qualify for the 8K tax credit, we’ have to be under contract on April 30 and closed by June 1st. If they move too slow, we lose out on a lot of money. So, we are actively looking at other properties in the mean time.
Isn’t life fun?
Heck, yes it is! We are buying a house! And whatever stress comes with it, it is part of the game of life.
Art
12
Mar
When the specter of a permanent dwelling surfaces, new questions arise. Questions like
- What do I want this space to look like?
- What do I want this space to say?
Accordingly, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about art. More specifically, what art I would like to hang in my office. There are two pieces I am thinking about, one comical, the other religious.
Comical
First, I’d like to get a set of decoupages ((this is where one takes a picture of a painting and paints clear painty stuff over it as if one was painting the actual picture – the next effect is the illusion of a painting. )) of images from comics. After looking around, I settled on the JLA covers to Final Crisis:
Each piece, aside from being beautiful and striking, showcases particular virtues and activates particular stories, stories which I value and allow to shape my identity.
Then there is Darkseid. In a lot of ways, he it the antithesis of those virtues. I think I’d like to keep him in there for purposes of juxtaposition. ((I totally have not talked about virtue ethics in three of my classes))
Religious?
The second thing I’d like to have on my wall is a telescopic view from the Holy of Holies from the 2nd Temple through each of the walls/divisions of creation and out past the borders of the city, of Samaria, through the wilderness, and finally on to Rome. It might even be neat to place biblical scenes in each location, such as Eden in the Holy of Holies, or replace Rome with Babylon and move it into the 1st Temple Period. Perhaps you’d have a sea past the wilderness or something.
I’ve had such a vision for such a painting ever since I read a book my first year of grad school which emphasized this sacred view of space, division, and order within Judaism. ((The name of the book escapes me – I’ll have to look it up when I get home.))
It would emphasize the ordered-ness of God’s creation and move toward the lack of order – the chaos of the wilderness, and ending finally the rebelling ordering of the world by humans. I’d even want the fabled sign on the edge of the court of gentiles that said that any gentile passing this gate would be killed.
Shalom-Chaos-Empire.
Not only would it be an awesome painting, but it would be such a conversation piece, such a reminder, and even such a thing to use for lecture points. You’d be able to see how Israel saw the world, you’d see the juxtaposition between the ways of God and the ways of humans and how they are set against each other.
And it would not be a Christian piece, per se, it would be a 2nd Temple piece and would therefore invite discussion and pondering about the relationship between 2nd Temple Judaism and Xianity / Rabbinic Judaism / other religions / Rome / other empires / politics / and God.
Do you have any thoughts on great wall pieces?
An odd dream
10
Mar
Last night, as I caught an hour here and an hour there of sleep between Reed-bursts, I dreamt of Scott Parsons and playing Philosophical Jeopardy on the moldy deck of one of the properties we looked at last night.
BSG doing the Beastie Boys
10
Mar
Came across the above video this morning. It is a nearly perfect reproduction of the Beastie Boys music video made with footage from Battlestar Galactica. I had actually forgotten how tremendously awesome that show was.
Incidentally
10
Mar
This blog is a blog about Meredith, myself (Henry), and our little man, Reed, it just so happens. We are a couple of citizens of the KoG livin’ it up in Columbia in Missouri. I teach, she develops, Reed… well, Reed just kinda monkey’s around, I guess.
