Things I’d Like to Write More About: The Revenge

1) Hey, Grinches, check this out: “Advent Conspiracy is an international movement restoring the scandal of Christmas by worshipping Jesus through compassion, not consumption.” You can join this movement as an individual or as a congregation. Wouldn’t that be somethin’?
2) Current consumption: new Sara Groves. It’s not the immediate soul flood the last one was [...]

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True believers

Of course, from the perspective of many (and maybe Time), Mother Theresa’s “crisis of faith” puts into great question the legitimacy of her confession of belief. It doesn’t seem to be knocking her out of the running for canonization (at least as far as I know), and that is due to her participation in a [...]

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Free Market Fundamentalism

If you haven’t seen it, Larry Flynt’s eulogy of Falwell is one of the most interesting I’ve read. I’m also kind of digging Hermits Rock, whoever those guys are.

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You say tomato, I say suspenders.

Falwell has passed within a few weeks of Webber, both at 73. Both people whose incipient faith was nurtured by “fundamentalist” communities, both of whom I believe loved the church, as they understood it. But, wow, what a difference in the legacies they leave. I wish the media would take an interest in the one [...]

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Out of Limbo

I am pleased that headlines are making note of the Catholic Church’s gentle dismissal of the concept of limbo. Although, according to some theorists, this really puts the writers of Lost in a bind.
But losing limbo doesn’t rule out the possibility of intercommunication with the bizarro world, as it appears a cooperative venture between [...]

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See the cat? See the cradle?

Kurt Vonnegut has passed. I started reading him as the subject of my 11th grade English thesis, and I liked him even more than Douglas Adams. I ended up keeping on liking him. He sort of laughed, not at our pain, but because we could have so much possibility, and be so unnecessarily, particularly cruel. [...]

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A Good Day for Yahoo Headlines

Keith Richards: “I snorted my father”
Insane Clowns prosper even as album sales wane
and the top viewed story of the day:
Couple fights to name baby ‘Metallica’

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One of these things is pretty much like the other

This morning on the way to the LA Central Library (which I highly recommend), I heard on the radio about Scientology leader David Miscavige naming Tom Cruise the “chosen one” of the religion.* While drinking coffee before the library opened, I had a conversation with a likeable man named Dash, who told me that when [...]

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