Will

The director for the production of Henry V I saw tonight did a little pre-show introduction and kept calling it “Henry Five”.

Telling someone who’s arguing with me that they need to engage with my “mature thought” (wait 20 years)

Life is rich. One day you’re thinking about Alasdair MacIntyre’s legacy. The next day you’re thinking about whether Super Smash Brothers: Brawl is the best video game of all time.

(At book club but I only watched the movie) I was impressed by how cinematic the prose was

The modern lectionary is the nationwide imax rerelease. Instead of asking our friends what they thought of this week’s reading from the Gospel of St. Mark, we’re asking our friends what they thought of the 70mm screening of Heat for its 30th anniversary.

I tried to reply with the solidarity fist emoji but it won’t display :(



Weird little thing I’ve noticed is that people in TEC pronounce it “Acknuh” while people who are actually in the ACNA spell out the acronym.

The reason society is so atomized is that the 3DS street pass feature is no longer around to encourage contact with one’s fellow man.

advanced Pope stat called xCATHEDRA

Everyone wants to be a “tradwife”, but nobody wants to be a “tradewife” (learn a marketable skill and join their local union).

Whenever I say an athlete has “aura” I mean it in the Walter Benjamin way

Reading about a psychoanalyst who had a bust of the guy who analyzed him, and the guy who analyzed that guy and so on going back to Freud. Filling my study with hundreds of busts from the bishop who confirmed me going back to St. Peter.

Comfortable. Funny word. Sounds like your recliner can be consoled.

(Has read the NT but hasn’t been to a church service yet) I can’t wait for all the holy kisses I’m about to get!

What happened to you on North Sentinel Island? They shot arrows at you? When I went they were all affable and polite. They must have gotten a weird vibe from you.

imagining a USA Network bumper advertising Twin Peaks: The Return reruns with the Kyle MacLachlan scenes set to “Teach Me How To Dougie”

the dorothy sayers ed. of purgatorio includes this little craft guide in an appendix where you can cut out some circles and fit them together to make a sort of clock that tells you the times at various notable locations (e.g., 4 PM in purgatory is 1 AM in rome)

they finally listened to the fans and put heidegger in wallace and gromit

been playing a bunch of balatro. can’t help but feel it would be better with a robust story. maybe one about generational trauma, or a rashomon

film criticism is easy. you just consider how good of a pinball machine could be made based on the premise and there, you’ve got yourself a rating.

cool thing about being anglican now is whenever you hear the prayer book wedding vows in a movie your friends have to pause it and each acknowledge the riches of our liturgy

is all this just some kind of squid game to you??

another Christmas in my quaint backwater hometown, Austin, TX

avoiding a classmate’s mom at a coffee shop, seeing the bob dylan biopic with your parents, generally being bored—this is what the holidays are all about folks

Christian Walker? I think it’s called a pilgrim.

was thinking about emailing charles taylor and found out he has one of the classic old guy emails

the lollipop guild was important for preventing some abuses in the candy industry last century, but in the modern era they’ve gone too far

me: so, what do you do for fun?? :)

my date, pluto from canto VII of inferno: “pape satàn, pape satàn aleppe!!!”

it’s tough being the only Guelf at thanksgiving with all my Ghibelline relatives