With the backdrop of all of this, I approached the various biblical texts from which I will craft next Sunday's homily.
Initially, I thought that I might use the 2008 Hunt Institute Governors Symposium as the point at which I might begin crafting this post according to the democratic process.
They're made up — by which I mean they are crafted and arranged to give us a compressed memory of reality.
I was, however, slightly puzzled, in a tooting-my-own-horn fashion, by the reference — which I missed in Crafts, but was repeated and emphasized by Avent — to the "textbook approach" of raising inflation expectations to escape a liquidity trap.
But the gem of his monologue was the takedown of Peter Jackson's Hobbit films that he himself featured in, wondering if the director might "squeeze - by which I mean 'lovingly craft' - another six films out of the slim volume that Tolkien wrote".
"There are lots of brilliantly crafted movies which I couldn't have made this movie without," says Cornish, "but which, for me, are a little bit morally unsettling.
What allowed our corporate emperors to hide their nakedness was a combination of poorly crafted standards, which I wrote about last week, and compliant auditors.
The stage is where I do my comedy, which I have been trying to craft for over six years and present to you, the audience, so that you can have a good time.
Whereas the last Red Dead focused on hunting as a way to make money, eat, or simply collect animals in the index, hunting now comes with its own system similar to Dead Eye and is paired together with crafting (which I'll get to shortly).
And so I bid you farewell, various stages upon which I have plied my craft.
