THE NIGHT IS YOUNG, AND WE HAVE HEDGEHOGS IN OUR DRINKS! Read more

SAVE OUR BLIGHT… and for pity’s sake, save our cheap beer, too! If a man’s house is his castle, surely a man’s Duff is his royal mead…. (Both links via Hit & Run, which also offers this… and this.) Read more

HEAD OF US CHALDEAN GROUP: Joseph Kassab, head of the Chaldean Federation of America, met Aug. 25 for the sixth time this year with officials from the State Department to press the case to allow Chaldeans — Iraqi Christians — fleeing their homeland to emigrate to the United States. … He estimated that less than half of the 1.1 million-1.2 million Chaldeans who were in Iraq before the U.S. war began in 2003 remain in Iraq today. Kassab said most... Read more

SHE THINKS I STILL CARE (Feast of Augustine Dance Remix): Follow-up to post below re: gay identity and stuff. Likely to be at least as scatterbrained and demi-coherent as its progenitor. …This is the really really Christian mix, as opposed to the original really really gay version–but I swear they’re saying the same thing!!! It’s like those pictures that are an old lady, but also a duck. The kindness of strangers: First of all, um. Thanks very much to everyone... Read more

AUGUSTINE!!! Woohoo!!! Read him online here. Dappled Things on our man and gradual conversion. (yes, I promise to post about replies to the gay-identity stuff, tonight, sometime before 3 a.m. EST….) ETA: except for the part where, not. Sorry. It is coming soon. And wouldn’t you rather read Augustine anyway? Read more

THEOLOGY REDSHIRTS: Oh, well, I’ve been thinking a lot about things I don’t write about here, because I don’t have anything coherent yet to say. And just-war theory vs pacifism is one of those things. (Yes, your reading recommendations very much welcomed.) Camassia hits close to one of my biggest problems with (certain strains of) Christian pacifism: …I would put that more bluntly: why the hell would anyone in government go along with a narrative that says their main function... Read more

TIGER BEAT: Martin Tielli’s We Never Suspected He Was the Poppy Salesman. Oh, well, yeah. This album opens with a fantastic song that reminds me of nothing so much as Angela Carter’s Heroes and Villains. It keeps going in this same pretty, broken-open vein, and while the first half of the album is mostly stronger than the second, there’s a song somewhere in the second half with imagery that managed to remind me of both the Iliad and Kathy Shaidle’s... Read more

I HAVE DRUNK, AND SEEN THE SNAKES ON A PLANE: A-plus, cats and kittens. The Platonic form of “Samuel L. Jackson stars in ‘Snakes on a Plane,'” instantiated now at theaters everywhere! Rock. Geoffrey Chaucer on “Serpentes on a Shippe” (spoylerez)! Super awesome for those who have seene ye movie. Via Angevin2 maybe? Read more

Would you believe that yesterdayThat girl was in my arms and swore to meShe’d blogwatch eternally… Disputations: Saints behaving badly. Jane Galt: Against the corporate income tax. Sed Contra: David S.: Things used to make so much sense, and I never used to doubt anything about my life or my faith. Now, approaching the age of forty and finally coming to terms with the facts that both ordained religious life and married life are out of the question for me,... Read more

The birds are the opposite of time.–Oliver Messaien, program notes for Quartet for the End of Time (via About Last Night) Read more