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Boston.com has pictures of cigar-smoking pirates celebrating the Gasparilla Pirate Festival. Was Peter Finin there? Is that him above in makeup and dark glasses? If you look carefully, the stubble is clearly not real.

I occasionally read things on the Distributist Review blog that make me want to unsubscribe.  But every now and then, I read something that totally changes the way I think.  Like this from a blog entry titled “Why I’m a Catholic, not a Capitalist”:
Our Holy Fathers, from His Holiness, Pope Leo XIII to His Holiness, [...]

And not in the “La Haine” image of a man falling and telling himself “so far so good” before he hits the ground kind of way…
I have been asked to interview at Emory in Atlanta as one of three finalists for the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Religion.  This is huge, amazing, phenomenal.  Emory is [...]

Susannah’s iPod has not been working. Right now, it’s no beter than a shiny paper weight. She ’s had it for about nine months, so she took it to the Apple store to see if it could be repaired. The worker at the store noticed three small dents on the back. (Apple employees are apparently [...]

I blogged about Pullman a couple months ago when he made some very negative comments about the Narnia series. About a month ago, there was an article in The New Yorker about Pullman which is very helpful for understanding Pullman a bit better. There were a few things that stood out to me [...]

I’ve recently been enjoying The Decembrists‘ video “16 Military Wives”, a Rushmore-like satire highlighting the absurdity of the current international political climate.
A song about contemporary American politics, “16 Military Wives” is the oddball on The Decemberists’ album Picaresque, where most of the songs tell stories set a long time ago in faraway lands. The Decemberists [...]

Ok… by popular demand.

I liked the early scenes of the bombing in London. Lewis did well to understate the bombings as a background for the story, but I think modern audiences need to see it to contextualize the story a little bit. The children are sent to the countyside to escape the war, [...]

For some reason, I find comparing Aslan and Hobbes extremely amusing. There doesn’t seem to be a particularly good reason to do it, other than the fact that their both fictional felines, but hey why not. Christianity today published an article about the two cats that really has nothing to with the characters themselves, [...]

In our discussions at school about who and what is Christian, we sometimes talk about the criterion of self-identification. A Christian would be someone who self-identifies as such. It sounds simple enough, however, the whole business becomes refracted and splintered in light of the spectrum of positions represented by those who ’self-identify’ as [...]