WELCOME TO THE MALIGN FIESTA!: Search requests that brought you to my blog. God’s spoken documents to have black panthers powers in 1965 for old little roman pope citizens (I am the second result!)peanuts subjunctive (fourth result…)Home Euthanize rodentnever underestimate human poetsboola Catholic theologyshark pornomcdonalds gospel feastecstasy shark (I finally know what I want to be if I grow up!)malign fiesta definitionEve Tushnet intellectual and moral conceit (I love you too)HOMEMADE WAYS GROW EYEBROWSProblems humans faceis the pentagon not telling... Read more

SHE THINKS I STILL CARE (lightly edited): OK, so ever since I read it, I’ve been obsessing over Disputed Mutability’s description of “moving past gay identity.” So. Why that is not how I am. First of all, this is NOT criticism of DM or of her stance. It is solely a discussion of why I am where I am. There are really good reasons to be where she is, and I think she articulates them well, and I’m not disputing... Read more

“TAKE IT AWAY… AND BRING ME ANOTHER LOVER!”: A quick expansion on part of my comments below about Do the Right Thing: You know how I said that Withnail & I was fantastic, but more self-indulgent and less scathing than Absolutely Fabulous? The same thing is going on in DTRT (and with much less justification)–children are absent in W&I;, which is exactly right, but which does draw the movie’s fangs a bit; but in DTRT they are not even a... Read more

If I could find a souvenirjust to prove the world was here–and here is a red blogwatch;I think of you and let it go… Well, the world managed not to blow up on my birthday. Ace. Let’s see if we can hold out until I get a chance to see Snakes on a Plane. The Arabist: Linknesses. Iraqi SMS culture. Stuff like that. Via Oxblog, I think. GetReligion: Cosmopolitan rats, they would kill you if they knew…. (Or, “You hate... Read more

THIS HEAT IS HOTTER THAN THE SUN…: Now I get it. The way to make heirloom tomatoes taste amazing, better than normal tomatoes, is to roast them. This is sooooooo good. (…yes, I will say something interesting soon. Maybe.) Read more

DOLPHINS ARE DUMBER THAN RATS. Vindicated!!!! Take that, hippies of the sea! …In other news, “I Walked with a Zombie” is awesome; “Cat People” is excellent; “Curse of the Cat People” isn’t my thing, but if you’re into this kind of storybook/sensitive/childhood thing I can see why you’d like it; and “Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl” kind of sucks. …And as long as I’m telling you about my Netflix adventures, “The Testament of Dr Mabuse” is... Read more

SAND IN THE PAGES: Kelly Jane Torrance has a follow-up to her summer-reading column! (I participated in the first one.) I didn’t know Ralph Ellison wrote movie reviews…. And my belief that the Dartmouth Review is not nearly as cool as Yale’s Finest Publication is shored up yet again: If we ever did an anthology, we’d have to go with a title more like, The Yale Free Press Pleads Guilty. (“Their case is fuzzy and circumstantial!“) Anyway, the column is... Read more

A master of music came with the intentTo give me a lesson on my instrument.I thanked him for nothing, but bid him be gone,For my little blogwatch should not be played on! …Despite the cute intro (you all should get the Baltimore Consort’s “Art of the Bawdy Song” CD!! I got it off Amazon Marketplace this past week, having last heard it freshman year of college, and it is fun fun fun in the sun sun sun), most of these... Read more

KITCHEN MISADVENTURES: CAUGHT IN A CELLULOID JAM. I always felt bad for Meg, in Little Women, when her jelly wouldn’t jell. So is it appropriate, or ironic, that I have now become the Anti-Meg? I attempted to make strawberry jam, based on a Food & Wine recipe. The idea was that this recipe, for “icebox strawberry jam,” didn’t require anything crazy like sterilized jars or ice baths or what have you, and it would keep in the fridge for about... Read more

And he had the idea to flySo the wind swept the blogwatch across the sky… About Last Night: Aug. 5. Young partridgers, strong flyers. Soft showers. Swifts. Pease are hacking.Aug. 6. Nuthatch chirps; is very loquacious at this time of the year. Large bat appears, vespertilio altivolans.Aug. 7. Rye-harvest begins. Procured the above-mentioned specimen of the bat, a male.Aug. 8. Rain in the night, with wind. Swifts. Sultry & moist: Cucumbers bear abundantly. Showers about. Procured a second large bat,... Read more