Ticks are pure evil. Pure, pure, pure, pure evil. Here is a product I just discovered, which makes it fast and easy to remove those wiggling bastards whole: Had no idea these existed. We didn’t have to touch the tick at all, and the head came right out. Tick spoons! Best five bucks I’ve spent all year. Read more
Today begins a new series: Catholic Artist of the Month. Rather than constantly kvetching about mediocre, sentimental art by Christians, I’ll be featuring artists who are doing it right. I am delighted to begin with Timothy Jones, an award-winning American realist whose photorealistic oil painting “Tempus Fugit” was just named a finalist in the BoldBrush Painting Competition. He graciously spent an hour talking to me while he was still in the throes of final exams at Chesterton Academy, the private... Read more
Robin has posted some exciting updates and details on her GoFundMe page, including this tantalizing photo of some salves she is preparing: She has set up an Etsy shop which will open for business on July 4! I believe that if you “follow” the Etsy page, you will be notified when products are ready for purchase. So exciting! (For those not familiar with the Robin Soap saga, here is the original story and here is my ridiculous contribution to... Read more
Is this even real? This is hilarious. From Estately via io9: top Google searches from each state. PIC map what each state googles I will admit, I didn’t have high hopes for my home state of New Hampshire, but . . . free kittens! D’awwwwww. The Estately link lists several of the top Google searches for each state, with a brief analysis. Some of my favorites: FLORIDA: Alligator Wrestling / Botox / Eyebrow Piercing / Hulk Hogan /... Read more
Not that I would know anything about this, not having, nor ever having been, a rotten teenager. No sirree. Read more
Darren Cools (husband of Anna Cools, the proprietor of Roots Soap Co.) has founded Her Name, a website built to honor women whose dignity was wounded through pornography. It’s a simple, anonymous project: If you want to add the name of a girl you have victimized by lust, please click the Add a Name button and enter her first name. If you remember her face but not her name, give her one. The form is completely anonymous and non-trackable. Use... Read more
German painter, woodcarver, engraver, mathematician, born May 21, 1471, spent much of his life in Italy and produced some of the most well known art of the Renaissance. He’s the one who did those Praying Hands that used to appear on 75% of religious art: PIC praying hands But did you know he also did praying feet? PIC praying feet Browse around in this wonderful gallery of his works, and you’ll find this... Read more
PIC Aha band “Not this kind, fortunately. Never this kind.” Says the boy: My tooth is almost out. Can I just have my tooth fairy money now so I can buy this thing? Me: Nope. Sorry. Boy: Okay. I guess I better haul some more rocks so I can earn the money, because I really want it. Me: Good idea. [Me on the inside: HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!] Now to spread the word to everyone who owns a credit card . . . Read more
At least some of our leisure time should be spent in recreation — literally. And I need to re-read Leisure, the Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper. I remember it being great, but I didn’t remember enough to dare to make a reference to it in the Register post! Read more
. . . but when I do, it’s because I got a good book review from a priest. Madonna House‘s Fr. Denis Lemieux, whose blog, Ten Thousand Places, you should be reading, had this to say about The Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning: The meaning of chastity in marriage and the painful journey towards it is well treated, as is the delicate subject of discernment around the choice to have another child. The judmentalism that can sometimes pervade NFP circles... Read more
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