Matyas Templom--where the last two kings of hungary were crowned. Built in the mid 13th century. During the Ottoman occupation (Turkish) it was the central mosque in Hungary (1526-1686). Currently, High mass is held at 10am on Sundays with full orchestra and choir.

This concludes the brief tour of the castle hill. Please stop by the gellert baths, pick me up, and take me out to dinner. Thanks!

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New York Times Quote of the Day:

So in the New York Times today (Sunday, September 11th) , in an article about literature production (Among the Believers) A.O. Scott writes about blogs versus literary magazine production:

"If you are an overeducated (or at least a semi-overeducated) youngish person with a sleep disorder and a surfeit of opinions, the thing to do, after all, is to start a blog. There are no printing costs, no mailing lists, and the medium offers instant membership in a welcoming herd of independent minds who will put you in their links columns if you put them in yours. Blogs embody and perpetuate a discourse based on speed, topicality, cleverness and contention - all qualities very much ascendant in American media culture these days. To start a little magazine, then - to commit yourself to making an immutable, finite set of perfect-bound pages that will appear, typos and all, every month or two, or six, or whenever, even if you are also, and of necessity, maintaining an affiliated Web site, to say nothing of holding down a day job or sweating over a dissertation - is, at least in part, to lodge a protest against the tyranny of timeliness."


So if any of you literary minded folk want to fight against the 'tyranny of timeliness' and help me produce a literary magazine (Matt, Dave, Laura????), let me know. I need to find another distraction as I sweat over my dissertation.