{"id":954,"date":"2007-11-19T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=954"},"modified":"2007-11-19T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T16:00:00","slug":"gallimaufry-with-geats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"Gallimaufry with Geats"},"content":{"rendered":"

¶ Slate reviews the new 3-D Beowulf<\/a> movie in heroic verse<\/a>! I liked Beowulf and Grendel<\/em><\/a>. Comparison will be fun.<\/p>\n

¶ Staying in a San Diego waterfront hotel is like living in a Tom Clancy<\/a> novel. Marines in dress blues suddenly fill the lobby. Helicopters and jets dash overhead. On Saturday morning I woke up to see the USS Nimitz<\/a> moored across from us at Coronado Island.<\/p>\n

But from the convention center I look over to a certain apartment complex on Coronado, where someone once important to me lived. Vanished youth, etc. M. is wryly accepting. She has her nostalgia moments too, after all.<\/p>\n

¶ Jason Pitzl-Waters links to a news story about what happens when a church is “marital property”<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

¶ Slate reviews the new 3-D Beowulf movie in heroic verse! I liked Beowulf and Grendel. Comparison will be fun. ¶ Staying in a San Diego waterfront hotel is like living in a Tom Clancy novel. Marines in dress blues suddenly fill the lobby. Helicopters and jets dash overhead. 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Although the original story is set probably in Denmark, this one is filmed\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":960,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=960","url_meta":{"origin":954,"position":3},"title":"Gallimaufry with Dreams","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00b6 Anne Johnson on Dream Weaving.\u00b6 Anne Hill writes about dreaming too. (Is this a blog meme? Ann + dreams?)\u00b6 Northern Path likes the new Beowulf movie.\u00b6 Peg is upset about people stealing Pagan music.\u00b6 Caroline posts collage Tarot decks.","rel":"","context":"In \"blogging\"","block_context":{"text":"blogging","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1043,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1043","url_meta":{"origin":954,"position":4},"title":"Knee Deep in the Bloody Ford of History","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometime around age 15 I took home Vol. 49 of the Harvard Classics from the Fort Collins (Colo.) public library and read for the first time Beowulf and The Destruction of D\u00e1 Derga's Hostel. 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