Not cold outside. Cold in my nose and chest that's been hanging on for better than a week now. Never gets better. Never gets much worse. But it saps my energy and is the latest reason for the derailment of my intent to be a better blogger.
But while I've been running at half speed or less, the world has gone on without me--a salutary realization, no doubt. I'll skip most of the things I had intended to blog about and stick to just one. (That's all my energy's going to be up for.)
Some of you may remember that a while back I was regularly linking to David Plotz's posts on Slate called "Blogging the Bible." Now he has come out with a book based on that experience. Called Good Book, it was published on March 3. I haven't read it yet, but I intend to. (Note, it covers only the Old Testament. Plotz, a non-practicing Jew, decided to stick with his heritage, but that doesn't take away from some of his marvelous insights on what the OT contains.)
I haven't read the book yet (the "marvelous insights" comment is based on the Slate series), but I intend to.
Fair Warning: Based on this Plotz quote from via Andrew SuIlivan's Daily Dish blog, don't expect some happy conversion story here. But sometimes the folks who don't see the same things we see are the ones who still can teach us something.
That's it. More antihistimines and offline now.
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