The Anchoress
The Great Chinese State Theater, typically remarkable-but-bizarre and over-the-top. Remarkable, yes. But I guess I’m old-fashioned and a traditionalist. I prefer Swan Lake without the extreme-acrobatics. Read more
The Great Chinese State Theater, typically remarkable-but-bizarre and over-the-top. Remarkable, yes. But I guess I’m old-fashioned and a traditionalist. I prefer Swan Lake without the extreme-acrobatics. Read more
It almost sounds like the epilogue to Where the Wild Things Are, doesn’t it? Having left the Wild Things to return to his still-hot supper and a life in suburbia, Max adjusts to a world in which there are no Wild Rumpuses and his Wolf Suit is not considered suitable for daily wear. But this is not the epilogue to a Sendakian fantasy. Rather, this is our engaging, challenging, honest-to-a-fault, to-some exasperating Max Lindenman, making a brave move: My Higher... Read more
“The Workers in the Vineyard” by Kazakhstan Artist Nelly Bube The Gospel reading is one of my favorite of Jesus’ parables, taken from Mt 20:1-16a:Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard. Going out about nine o’clock, the landowner saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and he... Read more
The headline reads “No more dancing around feminine hygiene.”, and the accompanying article notes that starlets no longer fearing the tag “harlot” openly discuss their favorite vaginal tattoos. Honestly, as a mom who has had to endure sitting through those “do you ever feel not-so-fresh” and “watch my tampon bloom” commercials with teenage sons, it feels like hygiene and vajayjays have hardly been danced around. But I suppose it was inevitable that a society in decline would finally end up... Read more
Over at First Things, a terrific feature on Hidegard of Bingen: Many have made Hildegard in their own image. She became a mystic to later medievals who saw her through the lens of her popular disciple Elisabeth of Schönau, although she was more properly a visionary and prophet. To humanists like Jacob Faber Stapulensis she became a woman of letters, to Reformers like Andreas Osiander a Protestant, and (in our own day) to the feminists like filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta... Read more
The Dominican nuns at Summit, NJ have welcomed a new novice, this week, and apparently have another postulant coming soon, which will fill up their novitiate! A nice problem to have, isn’t it? Not enough room for new vocations? If they’re going to keep growing, however, they really need some help getting some repairs done to their house. Their incredible artisan soaps and lotions help with the day-to-days but these repairs are hugely expensive, and with money so tight, the... Read more
The other day, after the GOP (with the help of the Jewish voters of Forest Hills, Queens) won the 9th congressional seat from the Democrats for the first time since 1923, I groused that the next day’s headlines in the New York Post had disappointed, and suggested a few I thought were better. Now, thanks to reader Don S., (I won’t give his full name, since I don’t want him to be reported to Attaaack Waaatch) we can see what... Read more
Over on the portal page, a couple of pieces you may like, but if you only have time to read one, I urge you to read Matt Emerson’s piece on selective abortion: . . .We had arrived at the future we were cautioned about, the place where human life had no value except as a field of experimentation, where men and women manufactured life like canned food. Here, in this new place, unborn babies are called “singletons” and willful killing... Read more
I’d guess this is the absurd and disspiriting levels to which unchecked political-correctness and a thought-policing society may descend: 3 Year-olds Branded Racist, Homophobic; Put in Gov’t Database: Over 30,000 British schoolchildren, some as young as three, have had their names registered on a government database and branded “racist” or “homophobic” for using playground insults, infractions that could impact their future careers. The shocking figures were disclosed after civil liberties group the Manifesto Club made a Freedom of Information Act... Read more
Jim Treacher, having a little fun about our president’s need to be shown the love. When I read the “if you love me” headlines, all I could think of — fairly or not; contextually accurate or not — was Evita; the Movie! I wonder if I will be reported to Attack Watch for, you know…comparing the president to a yet another meh film performance by Madonna? Where do we go from here? This isn’t where we intended to be We... Read more
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