Jonathan Meese

Is this a joke or is this some post-irony seriousness? I don't actually know:

Look Who's In the Hagia Sophia

Why it's gal-about-town Lindsey Delahanty!

Two more new signs

New Signs

Installation!!

Just installed my project The Hagia Sophia at the Women Made Gallery.




Thanks for your help, dad!


The show is March 6th, 6 to 9pm (685 N MILWAUKEE AVE.)

The New York Times article skimmer

This is really useful:



http://prototype.nytimes.com/gst/articleSkimmer/

Dancing News Anchors

WGN-TV weekend anchors Robert Jordan and Jackie Bange do a little dance number each Saturday and Sunday night during their telecast's first commercial break. Word is that it started out as a short 10-second dance, but now they have choreographed it into the full 2:40 of the break.

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/headcandy/2008/12/who-says-tv-anc.html

Hagia Sophia Party!

The Hagia Sophia project took about a year to complete at a cost of about $2500, but it is finally done. My dad was so proud that he threw a party for me with every relative, neighbor, family friend, and old musician buddy he could think of. I wish I had taken more pictures, but here are some.

The outside of the Hagia Sophia.


The inside.



Tyler and Joey accidentally wore the same thing. How embarrassing.



The oldsters played music in the basement...


while the youngsters smoked cigarettes in the garage.




There was a giant cake...


...and I tried posing with it to show just how large it was....

...but I think I only succeeded in making my head look huge.


It was the best party ever (thanks Dad!) There was even a Dobro player!

New Work at Work

SCARY!!! NSA spying on journalists!

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Metronomy: A Thing For Me

Dave Dee Died

DAVE DEE has lost his fight with cancer and died aged 65. So sad. Enjoy this video:

My Sister's Birthday

New Work

Everyone loves giant versions of small things.

Took the Holiday Decorations Down

There's nothing sadder than a bailer filled with presents.




Except maybe crushed display presents.

Best holiday photos

Happy Holidays from my family...

in 1987...









and now!

(note: we now have matching blue v-neck sweaters!)

New signs (at work)

The Medieval Scholars St. Thomas Aquinas and The ladies of the View

The philosophy of Aquinas has exerted enormous influence on subsequent Christian theology, especially that of the Roman Catholic Church, extending to Western philosophy in general, where he stands as a vehicle and modifier of Aristotelianism, which he fused with the thought of Augustine.

Aquinas believed “that for the knowledge of any truth whatsoever man needs Divine help, that the intellect may be moved by God to its act.” However, he believed that human beings have the natural capacity to know many things without special divine revelation, even though such revelation occurs from time to time, “especially in regard to [topics of] faith.”^[12] Aquinas was also an Aristotelian and an empiricist. He substantially influenced these two streams of Western thought.

Aquinas believed that truth is known through reason (natural revelation) and faith (supernatural revelation). Supernatural revelation is revealed through the prophets, Holy Scripture, and the Magisterium, the sum of which is called “Tradition”. Natural revelation is the truth available to all people through their human nature; certain truths all men can attain from correct human reasoning. For example, he felt this applied to rational proofs for the existence of God.

Though one may deduce the existence of God and His Attributes (One, Truth, Good, Power, Knowledge) through reason, certain specifics may be known only through special revelation (Like the Trinity). In Aquinas’s view, special revelation is equivalent to the revelation of God in Jesus Christ. The major theological components of Christianity, such as the Trinity and the Incarnation, are revealed in the teachings of the Catholic Church and the Scriptures and may not otherwise be deduced.

Supernatural revelation (faith) and natural revelation (reason) are complementary rather than contradictory in nature, for they pertain to the same unity: truth.

Here to expound further are the ladies of The View (stuck somewhere in the Middle Ages) :

For your fat stupid child this Christmas...

how about a Power Wheels Escalade?