Thoughts on ‘Psychonauts’
With volume 2 of Fantastic Schools (featuring a story by your humble servant) coming out soon [UPDATE: It's alive!], I thought it appropriate to revisit one of my own favorite entries in the fantastic schools subgenre: the video game cult-classic Psychonauts. We open with a man in an army uniform giving a speech before the … Continue reading Thoughts on ‘Psychonauts’
Lepanto
White founts falling in the courts of the sun,And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run;There is laughter like the fountains in that face of all men feared,It stirs the forest darkness, the darkness of his beard,It curls the blood-red crescent, the crescent of his lips,For the inmost sea of all the earth … Continue reading Lepanto
CM Piece: Authority in Marriage
Well, this one's probably going to make some people angry: The standard practice when faced with this passage is to emphasize the duty it and the following verses place on husbands: to love their wives as Christ loved the Church and to lay down their lives for them. This is all perfectly right and proper, … Continue reading CM Piece: Authority in Marriage
Saturday Memes
Make them, might as well post them Needed more often than I would like Probably should be more specific...
Thoughts on ‘Mulan’
With the unnecessary and unwanted remake becoming the ‘who the heck thought this was a good idea?’ film of the season (previously occupied by such luminary pictures as Birds of Prey and The Rise of Skywalker), I decided to revisit the original Mulan, which I had not seen in many, many years. Mulan came near … Continue reading Thoughts on ‘Mulan’
Neptune Anthology
Your humble servant will be having a story appearing in Tuscany Bay's Neptune Anthology. Scheduled to come out December 22nd. Mark your calendars! https://videopress.com/v/r3f9g6WJ Of course, being a long-time MST3k fan, this is what comes to mind when I think of the planet Neptune: "You cannot defeat the Planet Neptune!"
History and Compromise at ‘The Everyman’
My latest post at The Everyman is up, comparing our present world to Austria in the 1930s. It's depressingly apt. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A virulent ideological movement is spreading through a nation’s institutions. It presents itself as the wave of the future, elevating those who have been beaten down, and … Continue reading History and Compromise at ‘The Everyman’
Patriotism
You know what makes me the most angry, looking back? The fact of being told so many times that I shouldn’t be. I should be sad. I should be aware of the complexities of the situation. I should have sympathy for those in other countries. But I shouldn’t be angry. I shouldn’t feel it personally. … Continue reading Patriotism
Catholic Match: What to do When You have a Difficult Personality
I get to quote The Lost World in this one: This is not something that is going to go away, or that is a matter of simply building confidence in yourself (though more on that in a bit). Your personality will make your dating and married life harder for you than it would be for … Continue reading Catholic Match: What to do When You have a Difficult Personality
Serpent's Den 