IF YOU’RE IN NEW YORK AND LOVE COMICS, why not do these guys a solid and get some great comics for yourself as well? Read more

THE NEW YORK TIMES ON A PARADE OF RARE ARTWORKS. Snerk. Read more

YOU STAY CLASSY, CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Pictures of dead children sell candidates. Read more

“IF IT CAN’T BE HAPPY, MAKE IT BEAUTIFUL.” Read more

I am the false character that follows my name around. –Don DeLillo, White Noise, via this good & challenging column from Wesley Hill Read more

I’M ON A SUBMARINE MISSION FOR YOU, BABY: A series of stupid thoughts about the Michelle Bachmann “wifely submission” question. These are really just kind of starting points for thought, not actual thoughts, but I haven’t seen them anywhere else yet, so hey. 1. Obviously this whole conversation would be so different if most American Christians genuinely believed that submission is a privileged, honored position. It was rarely the eldest sons who inherited the king’s mantle, you know? Exaltavit humiles.... Read more

IT’S AN UNSAFETY DANCE–IT’S AN UNSAFETY DANCE! Disney’s Skeleton Dance, via Kindertrauma. I had a music teacher in middle school who did us all the favor of wheeling in a giant tv on a fat black cord every Halloween so we could watch this, followed by the Fantasia “Night on Bald Mountain.” So middle school wasn’t all bad, is what I’m saying. Read more

SICUT CERVUS: Author’s note: This was originally delivered as a talk at Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL on April 1, 2011, as part of a series of chapel service talks titled “Sexuality and Wholeness.” The theme for this third talk in the series was “Homosexuality.” I’d like to frame what I have to say today with a story from the Gospel of Mark (10:23-31). In this story, Jesus’ disciples are afraid of being left on the outside of the circle of... Read more

PERHAPS AS CLOSE AS WE’LL GET TO MY DREAM OF “MARC ALMOND’S ‘DEATH IN VENICE.'” Via HEAR. Read more

She was searching his eyes now–looking perhaps for the flickers of some silent story, an inner late late show. –John Hersey, Too Far to Walk Read more