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Monday, December 9, 2002
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Have You Met the Preacher?
As I mentioned in passing, the Salon Weblog community now has a preacher, and I for one am glad. Community, like religion, is something that I grew up without, and I'm happy to find a lively, inviting example of both here. I don't feel that a community is complete without a religious officiant of some sort. And what a man of God we have here.
He says that he has come here in the hope that it "will be like therapy" for him. I hope that it is, but I suspect that the citizens will get more from him (the chance to hear and understand the thoughts of an intelligent, articulate minister--the rule, rather than the exception, in my experience--will significantly expand the worldview of many around here) than he will from them, just as happens with the members of his church.
8:23:06 PM 
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What Did You Think of This Season of The Sopranos?
The votes are in on the last episode of The Sopranos, and folks seem to approve. I guess it's something of a relief at the end of a season about which people did a lot of complaining. My own view of the series has been influenced by reading Proust, which demonstrates more effectively than anything else I can imagine what it's like to struggle through long slow patches to understand a larger vision. The Sopranos is a long-form work. I've been surprised that, given the length of the story arc being followed, David Chase has been even reasonably successful in breaking it into episodes.
As a side note, I happened to see a little of the painful display of Robert DeNiro misreading cue cards that was this past weekend's installment in the ongoing train wreck of Saturday Night Live, and during the "Weekend Update" segment, which after a brief renaissance just isn't funny anymore, Jimmy Fallon complained about The Sopranos becoming boring. Better boring than unwatchable I suppose.
8:33:36 AM
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