REVELATIONS. Last night I finished my travel reading: Scott Hahn’s Lamb’s Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth (borrowed from the Oligarch). It’s a terrific book–“reads” the Mass through the Book of Revelations, and vice versa. Read it! It’ll illuminate one of the Bible’s wildest books, and, simultaneously, it’ll illuminate the Mass we attend (at least) every week. Ignore the cutesy pun-titles (“Oath Meal”–sigh); the book is solid. In New York, I went to the “Time to Hope” show of... Read more

POETRY WEDNESDAY: From Lewis Carroll, “The Mad Gardener’s Song”: He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. ‘At length I realise,’ he said, ‘The bitterness of Life!’ [rest clipped] Read more

TIME, LIKE AN EVER-ROLLING STREAM. Awesome pictorial display of individual continuity over time. Via Diana Hsieh. Read more

HOW TO ACHIEVE HUMILITY IN THREE EASY STEPS: Step one: Keep a diary. Step two: Wait (at least a year). Step three: Read old diary entries. Repeat as necessary. Read more

“African vampires don’t go for Chinese women.” –“Armour of God II: Operation Candor” Read more

OFF WE GO, INTO THE WILD BLUE YONDER: I’m off to sunny New Haven. Blogging will be nonexistent until Tuesday or Wednesday. I hope to come roaring back next week with reflections on America, art show reviews, and much other flotsam. See you then! Read more

JONAH MAY BE GEEKIER THAN I AM. Good to know. Read more

NEW CATHOLIC SITE, much poetry, another Smiths fan, etc. Read more

I WAS JUST REMINDED of one excellent reason to like the name “luminous mysteries.” Read more

“We’re vampires, all right, but only in a synthetic sense.” –Hippie vampiress, “The Wild Wild World of Batwoman (She Was a Happy Vampire),” a.k.a. “She Was a Hippy Vampire” Read more