SEVERED ALLIANCE. If you get the joke in this post title, congratulations! You wasted your adolescence in the very best way possible. Via JWB and Dreadnought. Read more

CAT VS. ALLIGATOR(S). Is it just me or does somebody in the background say, “You know you’re in the South”? Read more

KITCHEN ADVENTURES: I CARROT ABOUT YOU. (…Sorry.) Had a really good carrot soup for lunch. Washing dishes is my actual least-favorite household chore, so I did this as a one-pot even though I knew I could probably get better results if I, say, sauteed some carrots and onions in a pan first. Instead, I just peeled some carrots and cut them into small pieces/slices. Those cooked in the pot w/some olive oil, and I peeled and minced some ginger and... Read more

LOVE AND ROCKTOBER: THE ROUND-UP. Sean Collins’s complete month-plus of posts about some of the greatest comics ever made… plus a “where should I start?” section. If you keep hearing about Love and Rockets and want to know whether the hype is justified, this is where you should go. Read more

The Castroist emissary at the moment was called Sánchez Parodi, today Castro’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs. He might have been Parodi but he was not the target of my parodies. Parody is an act of love and those men are hideous.—Mea Cuba Read more

WHIGS FOR LONGER SKIRTS: A randomly-generated PAC and/or front group name! Via DLB, who got the gemlike “Sinister Gentlemen for Liberty.” Read more

“MARY, IN THE GLASS COFFIN OF THE MUSEUM.” My column at Inside Catholic. Read more

PLEASE ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF…: Early on, I was convinced that Synetic Theater‘s adaptation of The Master and Margarita (showing at the Shakespeare Theater’s Lansburgh through December 12, so go now!) would never work. Synetic, which typically does wordless dance/movement adaptations of classic texts, had two big things working against them: Their production has words, and takes place in front of an audience. Both of these factors served to make the early parts of The Master feel really intensely... Read more

WINE INTO WATER. I have a review of Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church in the current Weekly Standard. Read more

They are the same who appear in so many poems by Cavafy, where they turn up like lucky, unlucky days.—Mea Cuba, on Mediterranean gigolos Read more