it was a balmy, upper 70s day when Dale Ahlquist and I had our pitcher took on the set of “Manalive”. Now, I’m looking out the window here in Seattle and watching it snow–a lot! Bring on the Global Warming already! Read more

I never posted the link below because, as everybody knows, I hate the Latin Mass and all who celebrate it. Read more

…whose blog can be found here, writes: The choirs at Mount St. Mary’s had produced a CD of sacred music back in December … it’s gotten decent press, and now (finally) we have things arranged so that the CD is available for purchase online. iTunes and Amazon downloads coming soon as well! [The CD is part of a fundraising effort to help restore the chapel here.] If you can help spread the word, that would be awesome, and you’d have... Read more

A reader writes: You might want to try a new service available at Bible Versifier. You can automatically insert links to an online Bible for all Scripture references on the Catholic and Enjoying It! blog. Your readers will appreciate the convenience of one-click access to the Scriptures you reference. This utility can greatly reduce the time and tedium of entering all the hyperlinks manually at a cost as low as a penny per link. If there is another website containing... Read more

A reader writes: Don’t know if this is relevant to your blog, but I have put together a webpage that explains how to watch the last two seasons of Lost in chronological order. If someone has never seen Lost, they certainly should watch it in the normal order the first time! But if you have been watching, and are confused by the last season and a half — or just would like to see it again in a different way... Read more

…hired Tom Kreitzberg. All light and no heat. Clear as a bell. And often quite funny in his dry way. Read more

A more chipper telling of “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” than you perhaps ever wanted. Also, an interesting interview with the Man himself: His remarks about his fiction filling the “vacuum” left by religion are both hilarious and terrifying (what a fun guy he must have been at a party). His remarks on the fundamental differences between the written word and the screen as art forms are, I think, still prescient. I’ve never seen a book to film adaptation that could... Read more

A reader writes: I’m a freelance writer and CEO of Faith Experience Media, a small publisher focused on digital content. I’m also the editor of Wesley Report, a popular and fairly conservative United Methodist blog/news aggregator. I’m launching a new project that’s still in its early stages, but I wanted to let you know about it. It’s called Faith Blogging, and it’s a concise, pithy look at the Christian blogosphere, Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox. It’s tag line is “Complete Coverage... Read more

The Video Game! They’ve changed things a teensy tiny bit. Now Dante is a beefed up veteran of the crusades who seizes Death’s scythe to plunge the depths of hell and rescue Beatrice’s soul, which has been stolen by Lucifer after she was brutally murdered while her love was away at war. Vast volumes of social anthropology could be written to describe the change in world view between the the actual Dante and the people who wrote this game. As... Read more

This email that showed up in my box the other day shows why the Curt Jester is the Captain of the Blogospheric Love Boat: Hi Dear How are you today i hope that every things is ok with you as I have read your proflie over and over in www.splendoroftruth.com i must tell you that you have all the qualities i am looking for in a man.I am passionate,romantic,honest,affectionate woman seeking for a longterm relationship that will lead to marriage.Age... Read more