“IT’S NOT A COMPLEX ROLE–IT’S JUST YOU IN A WIG!”: Movie reviews. In chronological order: Zoolander: World’s dumbest male model is recruited for evil assassination plan. This is goofy fun, and I enjoyed it a lot. I don’t think I’d seen Ben Stiller in anything before; he has a terrific airhead-voice. Cabaret: *sigh* You guys probably already know the basic deal of this movie: Cabaret singer and her crowd during the rise of Hitler, loosely based on Isherwood’s Berlin Stories,... Read more

The belief that a person has a share in an unknown life to which his or her love may win us admission is, of all the prerequisites of love, the one which it values most highly and which makes it set little store by all the rest. Even those women who claim to judge a man by his looks alone, see in those looks the emanation of a special way of life. That is why they fall in love with... Read more

THE FBI AND POT. (Via Ratty.) As an old print ad used to say, Many people who smoke marijuana go on to harder things. Like grad school. Read more

KITCHEN ADVENTURE: IF WE WERE ALL LITTLE FIGGIES THEN WE’D SING FIGGY-WIGGY-WIGGY-WIGGY-WOO! You know, people always say these are their favorite posts…. Anyway, not sure what to say about this adventure. It wasn’t a complete success, but neither was it a complete failure; so if you have any thoughts on resolving the main problem, drop me a line. Roasted Figs with Goat Cheese. The recipe (from Food and Wine) was stupidly easy: Preheat the oven to 425. Cut the figs... Read more

“SEVEN TIPS FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE TRADITIONAL MASS.” Via Dreadnought. Read more

MEATCAKE. Read more

CITY ON THE EDGE OF WHATEVER. I hear where they’re trying to cast a replacement for James T. Kirk, my first male crush. (First female crush was Diana from V. Yes, I know, this explains everything.) I’m telling you right now, there’s only one man who can bring the true Kirk to the screen these days: Morrissey. Anything less, and I will not only withhold my dollar; I may riot. Read more

LATHER, RINSE, REPENT: I found these contrasting theses of Radical Orthodoxy both intriguing and very funny. Somehow via Inhabitatio Dei. Read more

But the angel said to me, “Why marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her. The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is to ascend from the bottomless pit and go to perdition; and the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will marvel to behold the beast, because... Read more

NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES: Movie reviews. And one actual nightmare! Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde–the silent one with John Barrymore. The two notable things about this movie are 1. Barrymore and 2. the changes made to the storyline. As far as 1., he’s creepy and awesome. Even at the story’s beginning, when he’s supposed to be practically perfect in every way, he looks ferocious and kind of like he’s about to bite the head off a bat. His fit during the... Read more