Listen, a New Year

It's a new year. Peter and I have been back and forth from our respective hometowns to Vermont, where we discussed Faith with the congregation of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington. Thanks to all who attended. It was our real pleasure to meet you. We hope to continue the discussion.

On the way from Boston to Burlington, we listened to the new Radiohead album, In Rainbows, which, if you haven't heard it, is amazing. It creates in you what Peter calls in the book, and what we'll start talking about soon at Bustedhalo.com, the ache. On the way, we bought the latest Spin magazine and were dismayed to see that IR was not listed as their album of the year.

For those of you who haven't heard us talk about or read from Faith in person, we have this for you. On Sunday, November 18, we led a book discussion for a very large and enthusiastic audience at the historic Trinity Church Boston, which, if you haven't seen it, is amazing. Listen here.

And finally, for the record, I've been meaning to say something about an essay I read several weeks ago that a reasonably liberal friend of mine said made her "retroactively go back and vote for Bush, twice": Brian Goedde's piece "Staying Home," published in the Dec. 12 New York Times Magazine, which featured Mike Huckabee on the cover. I have to think that the NYTM needed something just as unsettling from the opposite side of the political spectrum near the back of the magazine, just for balance. The piece takes place on New Year's Eve, several years ago, and I guess my mentioning it here, in our first post of the new year, is appropriate.