YOU’RE A HANDSOME DEVIL. WHAT’S YOUR NAME? I did the NormBlog profile, over at Norm Geras’s place. Polar exploration, my Muppet self, and similar glimpses into the maelstrom that is me.

Also, you may have noticed that I’m back. Thanks to those who wrote in concern! I’m fine now, just had a lingering bronchitis thing. Later today, expect notes from the Theology on Tap gay-Catholic-whatnot discussion; more on polar exploration; maybe a science-fiction review; whatever else slithers across the horizon.

Oh! and Monday was the feast day of my patron saint, Elizabeth of Hungary. Here’s an old post I did about Jean Genet’s Miracle of the Rose, which was one of the reasons I chose her.