Monthly Archives: January 2018
A Little Something to Offend Everyone (repost from May 7, 2011)
I. Why the obsession to document nearly every event in our mundane lives (and they are mundane for the most part—and should be, for “mundane” is derived from mundus)? Experience has to be mediated through the camera before it can be … Continue reading
Eating Memories
“Long let me bite your heavy, black tresses. When I gnaw your elastic and rebellious hair, it seems to me that I am eating memories.” ~Charles Baudelaire
Ode to Our Family
Dolores O’ Riordan, the singer for the Cranberries, is dead today at the age of forty-six. Here is what I wrote about the Cranberries some months ago: Several years ago, the lead singer of the Cranberries, Dolores O’Riordan (Dolores=pains–what a … Continue reading
The Disenchantment Chronicles
God has one screwy sense of humor; I think that it is very dark, if not nearly absurdist, which makes me chuckle, as one who grew up with a very sardonic mother and watching The Ren & Stimpy Show and … Continue reading
If You Need a Little Media-Modulated Transcendence…
(…and what forms of transcendence are not these days?), enjoy.
That Still Small Voice That Whispers “Fuck It”
Warning: personal post–more so than usual, I think…. Following on the ragged, bourbon-stained, piss-soaked J. C. Penney’s coattails of my last post: I think one of the most difficult acts to do for those who were raised to believe that … Continue reading
Write Me Off
One of my favorite stories about the Saints does not involve an act of heroic courage or gruesome self-denial but rather involves a starkly honest admission by St. Theresa of Avila directed to God after St. Theresa fell down into … Continue reading
Wind up the Sexual Tension
Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture continues to prove itself one of the best written publications and, perhaps slightly better, one that always challenges me, showing that traditionalism possesses both a surprising fecundity of ideas as well as rigorous inner-consistency. In … Continue reading
The Morning Come-down
“Mornings are for regretting the things that you did when you should have been sleeping.” ~Arthur Byron Once again, the Catholic Church has it correct, and we have it fucked up: January 1st is the solemnity of Mary, the Holy … Continue reading
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