Today's the wife's birthday, and we're celebrating with crab legs and Grade-B horror movies. (Anything featuring summer camps, giant arthropods, and makeup that looks suspciously like it came from an old Pressman "Monster Magic" kit.) No time for ranting. Instead, I'll post my updated reading list.
Trapped in the Mirror: Adult Children of Narcissists in the Struggle for Self – Elan Golumb
Justinian’s Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire – William Rosen
Way of the Samurai – Mishima Yukio
The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America – Howard K. Philips
Showdown: Why China Wants War With the U.S. – Jed Babbin*
Hard Sayings of Jesus – F.F. Bruce
The Two Cultures and A Second Look: An Expanded Version of The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution – C.P. Snow
Sounds of the Passion: Meditations on Jesus’s Journey to the Cross – David M. Owen
The Republic – Plato
The New Thought Police: Inside the Left’s Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds – Tammy Bruce
National Museum: Sculpture – Bronzes – Vases – Basil Petrakos
Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality – Anthony de Mello
Atlas of the Ancient World – Christopher Fagg
Dynamics of Faith – Paul Tilllich
Existentialism – Mary Warrnock
One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance – Christina Hoff-Summers
unspun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation – Kathleen Hall Jamieson
The Control Freak – Les Parrott
The Politics – Aristotle
Chinese Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality – Charles Luk
Acupressure Techniques: A Self-Help Guide – Julian Kenyon
The Art of Greece and Rome – Susan Woodford
Christianity and Culture and Notes Towards the Definition of Culture – T.S. Eliot
The Lords and The New Creatures – Jim Morrison
The Grand Miracle -- C.S. Lewis
Around the Wicket Gate: Help for Those Who Only Know About Christ – Charles H. Spurgeon
The Twelve Caesars – Suetonius
The Complete Odes and Epodes With The Centennial Hymn – Horace
Charismatic Chaos – John F. MacArthur
The Satires and Epistles of Horace – Horace
Myths of the Greeks and Romans – Michael Grant
The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome – Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) – Lucretius, trans. Anthony Esolen
The Civilization of Rome – Donald R. Dudley
The Roman War Machine – John Peddie
Sex, Literature, and Censorship – D.H. Lawrence
The Nature of the Gods – Cicero
*This one was dreadful. The author took a very real concern, and spun it into an absurd, neocon fantasy. I include it only as a cautionary tale, the moral being that it doesn’t pay to put too much stock in prophets and pundits.
And (of course) the “Injured-List Playlist.” Dedicated to the blue-and-white Kachina. (It’s an inside joke.)
“I Am the Storm” -- Blue Oyster Cult
“Black Juju” -- Alice Cooper
“Black Magic” – Slayer
“Elric (The Enchanter) – Hawkwind
"Nightmare: The Dreamtime"-Motorhead
Psi Power -- Hawkwind
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