FIVE WAYS YOU KNOW IT’S TIME TO GET MARRIED. John Cheese: Don’t picture your relationship as two people pulling a wagon. It’s like two legs carrying a person. yeah, you know you should click Read more

“THE BEATITUDES IN PRISON”: A PRISONER’S RESPONSE. Read more

“[Maureen Tucker] and I were friends but I always got the feeling that Moe disapproved of everything that the rest of us were doing on some basic level. Moe was raised a catholic and she was pretty strict at the time. She always wore pants. She brought one dress with her on every tour and I remember waking up on a Sunday morning after doing a show the night before and being really bleary eyed and seeing a pair of... Read more

CONCENTRATED ESSENCE OF ’80S. Via VM. This just makes me happy. Read more

ONE LAST THING–FROM MY NOTES FROM FORDHAM: You have to make loyalty and obedience beautiful before you can evoke sorrow for disobedience. Read more

LOCATION FOR MY PRINCETON TALK! 302 Frist Campus Center. Directions. Time is 4:30 pm tomorrow, Tuesday, September 20, 2011, Princeton, NJ, USA, the Earth, the Milky Way, the Universe. Hope to see many of you there! (I don’t remember the official title of the talk, but you can assume it’s basically “Gay Catholic Whatnot: O tell me the truth about love.”) Read more

PRIESTS SAY THE DARNEDEST THINGS: I’ll link you all to the video of my panel at that Fordham U. “Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church” conference [ETA: when it is posted]. I’d intended to do a full set of notes on the conference but really I think I only have one thing to say, which is that I noticed a recurring theme of putting (what I consider to be) overly-intense pressure on what is said by priests. You guys already... Read more

“SO I’M CONVINCED YOUR DEEPEST PROBLEM IS….“ (via Wesley Hill) Read more

You are not to imagine that my friendship is light enough to be blown away by the first cross blast, or that my regard or kindness hangs by so slender a hair, as to be broken off by the unfelt weight of a petty offence. I love you, and hope to love you long. You have hitherto done nothing to diminish my goodwill, and though you had done much more than you have supposed imputed to you my goodwill would... Read more

IN WHICH I PERSIST THROUGH TIME AND SPACE, despite everything! Some of you appear to think that an announcement of a speech or presentation might include trivialities like “location” and “time.” We call these people THE WEAK. …No, actually, sorry–I was being a fluffbrain. My Fordham U presentation will be at noon this Friday at the Lincoln Center campus, in the Pope Auditorium, and my Princeton talk will be at 4.30 next Tuesday afternoon at a place TBA (but probably... Read more