WE LIKE ALL KINDS OF MUSIC. But I like American music best, baby. Anyway–more stuff about Allan Bloom and rock’n’roll, here and here. I got a good challenging email on this subject, so I’ll return to the fray, maybe Monday. I’ll also post about DC “statehood”/dependence/blah blah blah, the topic that leads smart classical-liberal-type bloggers to say dumb managerial-imperialist things. (Except The Agitator, who is Making Sense.) I’d do that today, but apparently the Internet, and/or this computer, has a... Read more

HILARIOUS. Read more

“You don’t look like my ex-wife at all. She was well-bred and rather frail, except for her famous mammalia. You look more like a cow than my late wife. Oh, no offense. I’m very fond of cows. Mooooooo!” –Robert Mitchum to Elizabeth Taylor, “Secret Ceremony” Read more

ANTHONY BURGESS ON “A CLOCKWORK ORANGE”: “It is not, in my view, a very good novel, but it sincerely presented my abhorrence of the view that some people were criminal and others not. A denial of the universal inheritance of sin is characteristic of Pelagian societies like that of Britain, and it was in Britain, about 1960, that respectable people began to murmur about the growth of juvenile delinquency and suggest [that the young criminals] were a somehow inhuman breed... Read more

DO YOU LIKE AMERICAN MUSIC?: Unqualified Offerings defends rock’n’roll against Allan Bloom’s charges that rock “provides premature ecstasy… [and] artificially induces the exaltation naturally attached to the completion of the greatest endeavors–victory in a just war, consummated love, artistic creation, religious devotion and discovery of the truth.” Bloom actually has a series of charges to press against rock. His first and most accurate point is that contemporary Americans have forgotten or ignored the power of music. Music seeps into virtually... Read more

If you close the door, the night could last forever, Leave the wineglass out and watch a blog to never… Buscaraons: An answer to my “Why did World War One happen? And why did people get excited about it?” questions. Feel free to chime in on this. Cacciaguida: Mary, Ark of the Covenant. Dappled Things: Praise for the Low Mass; Jewish hymnody and Gregorian chant; problems with a “Low Mass mentality” (so true! I may know only enough Latin to... Read more

“They came… They thawed… They conquered…” –Ad slogan for “The Chilling” Read more

TOO. CUTE. FOR. WORDS. I hate myself for loving stuff like this. Read more

GO TO CHURCH!: It’s the Feast of the Assumption. Amy Welborn’s experience. My priest did something very cool, despite some time-wasting rambling at the beginning of his homily. He basically connected the Assumption of Mary into Heaven with the importance of the body. Catholicism is famous for being a very sensual religion; although it’s falsely accused, these days, of hating or rejecting the human body, it in fact honors the body and considers it a gift that God gives to... Read more

And the whole world Has to blogwatch right now Just to tell you once again Who’s bad… The Agitator: Jimmie “J.J.” Walker, a dyn-o-mite libertarian! And fake plants, but a real monkey. The Rat: Who ever would have predicted something like this? (You’ll have to follow another link there, but it’s worth it for her headline.) Mark Shea: What it does (and doesn’t) mean to “reject Christ“; and squishy martyrs. Oh, and Jews, and Jews. Unqualified Offerings: Don’t Tread on... Read more