Tom Ferguson

“The Germans were bad shots I guess” was what he would say.

Getting strong Christopher Lee Wicker Man vibes from the local pumpkin fest …

“The vacuum cleaner can’t get me under the bed.”

My uncle worked for Alexander Graham Bell as a child doing odd jobs for him then later fought in the Battle of the Bulge (for Canada) where he got shot 25 times and was left for dead but survived.

Everybody likes to talk about the Terminator and SkyNet but I think our eventual AI apocalypse will look a lot more like the TechnoCore in the Fall of Hyperion...

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I stand by this meme I use it a lot...

Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit by Photios entering the chat…

This book SPILLS THE TEA. See which Archbishop of Canterbury was rude and dismissive of first female seminarians! Find out which Board of Trustees member was first woman to enter stratosphere as a balloonist! Be thankful students are no longer required to provide their own coal for dorm rooms!

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New book dropped, just in time for spooky season. Seminary's motto is "Beyond Walls" wanted to look to future & call it "Beyond Beyond Walls". Editor said nobody would get it. Was reminded that "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" and agreed.

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I became a monthly sustaining pledge member with my local NPR the awesome and important @nhpr.org !

Covered Augustine in church history class this week. One of my favorite responses to a question was when student asked years ago “Why did Augustine leave Milan & go back to Carthage” I said “Because like Right Said Fred he realized he was too sexy for Milan.” Shout out to one student who laughed.

“Other religion” also has some pretty amusing numbers…

Hai I noticed you were eating lunch…

How it started looking up…how it ended look g down…this mornings hike.

I was at a video arcade with my son and some of his friends and someone was doing a work Zoom call in the middle of the arcade with their laptop on a flat tabletop Ms Pac Man game and was not using headphones.

Nobody I know who has lived in CA at all in for the last 20 years or knows anybody who lives in CA is gung ho about this guy, all he has ever been is doing whatever he thinks he needs to do or say for the next job he’s gunning for.

A historian once said one of the central goals of totalitarian regimes is to replace history with mythology of their choosing.

I needed to share a password with someone earlier today and while I was glad to help this person it also required me to disclose the password in question is JeterS**ks69 and I am totally not sorry for that. #Masshole

There was literally that Black Mirror episode on this - the next horror in much of society’s unthinking wallow in AI’s ensh*ttifcation of everything will be monetizing and exploiting grief with bad AI chatbots.

Guy named Tolle making major league debut for Sox tonight wish I was at the game to start the “Tolle! Lege!” Cheer

Where my Augustine peeps at

I remember hung over dudes who seemed to be there mainly to wander around and talk to people in a daze but didn’t seem to actually work out.

Did I give you this one “The church can’t die because it is of God, and beyond our capacity to kill, and also because we have tried many time to kill it through incompetence and failed every time.”

I was driving once and saw a KAL EL license plate so started honking my horn, leaned out window to point at my plate, said “You will bow before me Jor-El, you and your heirs” weirdly the person took a quick right turn onto another street.

Hearing the sad news of the death of the great Terence Stamp — among his many many great roles he was General Zod in the Reeve Superman movies — here’s my license plate from when I lived in Ohio.

The 10 ft long 18 inch wide 18 inch deep ditch the boy and I dug…he said “We did it” and I said “We’re Irish, our people know how to dig holes. We dug the Erie Canal by hand, we dug the Boston subway by hand.”