Author Archives: Ron Giesecke

Great. Now a mathematician is going to mess up the one-way Mars Spectacle

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

I promise you.  I’m not a sadist.  But there is a side to me that gets a small, if not mildly sardonic kick out of watching people line up like lemmings for a mission on which they are GUARANTEED to … Continue reading →

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McCloud and the moon . . .

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Just a few weeks . . . And this truck will be disappearing into a vortex of dust . . . and wonder . . .  

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My new Liebster Nomination

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Apparently, my appalling writing style, overstated sense of self-importance, and maudlin, lactation-inducing baby-squeaking about my abysmal weekend traffic isn’t enough  to put off the lovely and gracious Minah Seo–because she’s fallen off the wagon over there at Brown University and … Continue reading →

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All Sons & Daughters Redux, and a brief word about the songwriting process

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Reasonably soon, I’m going to explore the bedrock beliefs that drive my involvement in music, the parameters I believe music has, its true purpose, and how every attempt by anyone with nefarious worldviews using it only succeed in poisoning the … Continue reading →

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All Sons & Daughters

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Feb 25th, I was sitting watching these guys do this song.  I needed it. Still do. How Providential they were here. Then. And then . . . now.

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The ever-sliding scale of traffic (also known as “This TARDIS is gratuitous”)

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

I’ve no idea how to even begin to parse the weekend traffic. Either Saturday is abysmal as a matter of form, or it is an atrocious statistical outlier.  But writing about GK Chesterton was supposed to cause at least a … Continue reading →

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Canonize Chesterton? Only if I can be there!

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

The other day, I read this fantastic rundown of Gilbert Keith Chesterton’s writing. I was reminded yet again why I love him so much–if Mark Twain and CS Lewis fell simultaneously into a hay-bailer, you’d get GK in a tight … Continue reading →

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Nuff said

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

  This–precedes a piece I’m working on in my head–about the power and origin of music. -R

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Friday

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

   Fridays have a bittersweet feel to them. Okay, that’s not true–in reality, it’s an unrelenting vortex of bitter. This is primarily because Friday is my “Monday.” The problem with this is a whole pile of the other employees here … Continue reading →

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Palavras ao vento

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Being that I have auspiciously crossed the “100-post” rubicon, I figured I’d lay in tomorrow with a “top ten greatest hits post.” I wouldn’t mind a few of you pitching in here. Anything you found particularly instructive? Exhilirating? Appalling? Don’t … Continue reading →

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