Backward Mutters

  • The Irrelevancy of The Golden Compass

    As a young teen, Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was winsomely clever, dry, and sardonic. Having relished the books and the wacky BBC television production. I found the 2005 movie production, almost, well adolescent. It wasn’t as funny and biting and clever. Rather, it was olde (as…

  • Pullman and the Gospel, E Pluribus Unum 2

    Whether Pullman will recognize it or not, everyone has a functional savior. For the church Pullman rightly condemns, it’s not Jesus but rather power and influence. “Woe to you rich,” Jesus said. Not that having money is a sin, rather the sin is how one uses the money to manipulate…

  • Fall Riding

    We’re in the transition. The colors are really popping. And even this camera phone picture almost does reality justice.

  • Slow Twitch, Final Phase

    It’s ALIVE!!!!! Today it was time to tackle the shifting. I had cut the cable housings to the correct length last night and realized that I needed barrel adjusters for the housings to fit into on the down tube. A quick stop at Bicycle, Toy, and Hobby this morning and…

  • Contemnoterraism: Pullman doesn’t get Lewis, E Pluribus Unum

    In the article I referenced earlier Pullman states, “Narnia has always seemed to me to be marked by a hatred of the physical world.” Philip Pullman Huh? A hatred of the physical world? Now there’s got to be a name for it, and if you know what it is would…