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Thom

McMinister

About Me

Mostly, I read a lot of books and volunteer with goodie-goodie liberal causes. I like the color orange a lot. I could talk forever about books by David Foster Wallace. Same goes for Dave Eggers. Oh yeah, I'm also the minister of an awesome, theologically-liberal church. You can read sermons and stuff here: www.revthom.blogspot.com/

My Interests

Social justice, rock shows, liberal politics, artsy things, reading books, Boston Red Sox, New England Patriots, ice cream, microbrew beers from the Pacific Northwest, juggling, writing, Unitarian Universalism, hermeneutics of suspicion

I'd like to meet:

People who are well-read. People who are active politically or in the community. Artists. Heretics. Progressives. Liberals.

Music:

Hum, Built to Spill, Minus the Bear, Broken Social Scene, Decemberists, Death Cab for Cutie, TMBG, Postal Service, National Fire Theory, The Architects, Roman Numerals, Liz Phair, Fountains of Wayne, Hymns

Movies:

Wholphin. I am all about the wholphin. Google it and find out for yourself. Oh, and I like zombie movies too.

Television:

The Vicar of Dibley

Books:

David Foster Wallace, Billy Collins, Nick Hornby, Michelle Goldberg, Kurt Vonnegut, Dave Eggers, Life of Pi, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Albert Camus, Emerson, Thoreau, Barbara Ehrenreich, Ben Mezrich, Walt Whitman, Wislawa Szymborska, Carl Dennis, Michael Berube, a little bit of Anne Lamott, books on religion and theology

Heroes:

Theodore Parker (minister/activist/abolitionist), Rebecca Parker (minister/feminist theologian), Parker Posey (actress), Peter Parker (spiderman).

My Blog

Books Read: May 2007

I started off the month of May by reading "What Every Person Should Know About War" by Christopher Hedges.  This book was one of the ones I used for my Memorial Day sermon. During the month I rea...
Posted by Thom on Tue, 29 May 2007 02:54:00 PST

Books Read: April 2007

April was a slow month for reading.  My big project was reading Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club.  The "Club" is a 450 page intellectual history of post-civil war America.  It ...
Posted by Thom on Fri, 04 May 2007 07:04:00 PST

Books Read: March 2007

This month I got really addicted to Nick Hornby's collections of critical essays.  I read both The Polysyllabic Spree and Housekeeping vs. The Dirt.  I also read his book Songbook which made...
Posted by Thom on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:55:00 PST

Books read: February 2007

February was a slower month for me reading-wise.  I did tackle the Dave Eggers novel What is the What.  Written as an autobiography of a Sudanese "Lost Boy", I found it to be gripping a...
Posted by Thom on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:46:00 PST

Books Read: January 2007

Housekeeping vs. The Dirt is the newest book by Nick Hornby.  It's his second compilation of monthly columns from The Believer magazine.  (The first was The Polysyllabic Spree.)  Hornby...
Posted by Thom on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:15:00 PST

2006: What I read...

Here is what I read (to the best of my ability to remember) in 2006:All eight books by David Foster Wallace: Consider the Lobster (essays)Infinite Jest (novel)A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Agai...
Posted by Thom on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:14:00 PST