Paul Moment

That busy signal that you hear…

Moment — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:16:12 +0000

is me – busy. I was slammin’ last week to get my freelance stuff done enough to start my new full time gig this week, which has also been humming along. Fun fact: I pulled an all-nighter on freelance work the night before my first day! Nothing says “I care” like showing up to work [...]

Some spiritual zeitgeist

Moment — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:16:22 +0000

Nationally and internationally, old authorities are crumbling. No less of a luminary than the Secretary of the Treasury said a few days ago that capitalism is changing. The rug has been yanked out from under the financial experts and captains of industry. Political alignments are shifting as old orthodoxies die in favor of new realities. [...]

Maureen Dowd, National Dominatrix

Moment — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:21:02 +0000

Maureen Dowd has decided, for reasons unknown, to anoint herself the National Dominatrix In Charge Of Emasculating President Obama. Dowd’s smug condescension is normally humorous in the same way that you’d be mildly amused at a monkey trying to play the piano, but her column today was so annoying as to push me over the [...]

Don’t let go of the boat

Moment — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:41:15 +0000

“We were told that Nick said the two NFL players took their life jackets off and drifted out to sea,” said Bob Bleakley, whose son Will Bleakley, 25, is also still missing. ~ via FoxNews Four friends, all athletes, all young and in good condition, all dumped into the same vast frigid water miles from [...]

We’re still all gonna die, but today was a good day

Moment — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:05:10 +0000

“Things You Should Be Doing When The Meteor Hits” Dept: OK. Yes, we’re all gonna die from impact with an outsized planet fragment, but in the meantime, there’s Kutiman: Kutiman is an Israeli musician that had the simple, but utterly genius, idea to sample YouTube. He trolled Lord knows how many music videos to find [...]

We’re all gonna die

Moment — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:51:32 +0000

Just when you’re starting to get your head and courage wrapped around the Economic Winter Of Our Discontent and end of Western civilization as we know it, along comes the news that An asteroid which may be as big as a ten-storey building has passed close by the Earth, astronomers say. The gap was just [...]

Just who do you think you’re dealing with?

Moment — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:51:15 +0000

So, I got a new job starting a little later this month. It’ll be the first traditional employment I’ve had in 15+ years, but I’m currently burnt out on being a freelancer and want to get back to steady paychecks for a while. In the course of going through the hiring process, my new company [...]

Lent, porn, Colbert

Moment — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:20:19 +0000

We begin with a video from St. Stephen of Colbert (snatched from the jaws of the Ordinary Gentlemen blog): In this clip, St. Colbert does an intro about how church attendance swells during severe recessions and then interviews Fr. James Martin, a Jesuit who joined the order and took a vow of poverty after leaving [...]

Jedi, Christian seclusionist fashion and the Steel Mother

Moment — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:03:55 +0000

Thanks for the comments, bretheren and sisteren. Lovely thoughts all. Bob, I have some thoughts about Lent, porn and Stephen Colbert that I’ll try and share share tomorrow. Those all go together, right? In the meantime, I have a grab bag of random goodies to throw at you. Just how good of a political ninja [...]

Sometimes, it takes an Obama to drag you back out

Moment — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:34:17 +0000

Apologies to you all for dropping off the face of the planet for almost a month. I get in these moods sometimes, whether from burnout or an overdose of unmerited ennui or just lack of feeling particularly inspirational, and I just drop out. Natalie, as usual, says it well while beating me to the punch: [...]