I am not going to talk about the election. What will happen is completely out of my power to influence and I don't think my, what, five readers have much influence either, or particularly care what I have to say on the subject. There was a surprisingly good homily at Mass today (my present situation … Continue reading Sunday Thoughts: Preparing to Prepare
A Secret Message
The Five Stages of Election Fraud
Denial: “They’re not really doing this, right? No, surely even they wouldn’t dare…” Anger: “YOU CORRUPT, ARROGANT SONS-OF-*****! WHEN I GET A HOLD OF YOU…” Realism: “Yeah, what’d you expect? These are the great ones of this world; the people who sell their souls for the power to impose their brain-dead views on everyone else. … Continue reading The Five Stages of Election Fraud
The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad
Dull to myself, and almost dead to theseMy many fresh and fragrant mistresses:Lost to all music now; since every thingPuts on the semblance here of sorrowing.Sick is the land to' th' heart; and doth endureMore dangerous faintings by her desp'rate cure.But if that golden age would come again,And Charles here rule, as he before did … Continue reading The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad
Tolkien’s Answer Summarized
There is a famous story about what happened when Professor Tolkien was approached about the possibility of a German version of The Hobbit in 1938. Of course, this was when the criminal Nazi government was in charge of the nation, so before the German publisher would undertake a printing they, of course, had to inquire … Continue reading Tolkien’s Answer Summarized
Locksley Hall
I'm not writing on the election. What would be the point? There are enough people talking about it to satiate anyone's appetite for politics and predictions of victory by this side or the other. Right now, I just don't want to bother thinking about it. So today is a poetry day. Alfred Lord Tennyson Comrades, … Continue reading Locksley Hall
Fear of Death
“When you remove, like even in the schools, you remove prayer, you remove God, you remove the fear of God, you create the possibility of the fear of everything else. But watch this: If you instill the fear of God, you eliminate the fear of anything else!”https://mobile.twitter.com/zhenryaz/status/1320102253865308161 I know nothing of Kanye West, but if … Continue reading Fear of Death
All Saints
The doctrine of the Communion of Saints is rather simple. It's that Christians don't leave the Church when they die. The work they began in this life doesn't end when they enter the next. We have a perspective problem in this life. In fact, it's very like being in high school (our education system has … Continue reading All Saints
For Halloween: ‘Don’t Drop That Knife’
(To the tune of 'Last Friday Night'...though more directly 'Don't Mine at Night') There’s a voice upon the breezeThere’s a screaming from the treesBodies all around the roomLast one left, girl, you are doomed! Just no way to reach the carSomeone’s moving in the yardWalls are dripping wet with goreNow he’s pounding at the door! … Continue reading For Halloween: ‘Don’t Drop That Knife’
Brief Thoughts on ‘The Shining’
Last night I watched The Shining for the first time with my family. Though obviously I’ve been familiar with it for a long time and I’ve seen many clips of it (which, unfortunately, meant that I kind of went in knowing more or less what was going to happen). Quick take: it’s pretty good. I … Continue reading Brief Thoughts on ‘The Shining’
Serpent's Den 