High Command: Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis in (and on) “Trapeze”
I’ve watched a few movies lately which I haven’t posted about here. My one-line review of 1952′s underworld soap opera Casque d’Or is basically, “Simone Signoret eats cheese off a knife. Thanks...
View ArticleThe Mask of Obedience
Last year I wrote this really scattershot, unsatisfying post about “The Beauty of Obedience,” rescuing obedience as a positive term and a category you’re allowed to care about. I recognize that that...
View ArticleFriday Link Round-Up: The Road to Ferguson, And Some Paths Away
Hey it’s my birthday, let’s have some fun! This is a very, very scattershot link round-up. Mostly snagged from people I follow on Twitter and you should too.Walter Olson, “Petty Offenses and...
View Article“Leading with Humility”: Me on Spiritual Direction for Gay Christians
and other people, should they exist:Several months after I’d stopped seeing my first spiritual director because he’d been transferred to a different parish, I saw that he’d be giving a talk on Catholic...
View Article“In Fresno, A Community-Policing Ethos Builds Ties Between Officers and...
from the Washington Post:Not long ago, the Hispanic residents of this gang-ridden neighborhood in Southwest Fresno would not have voluntarily spoken to a police officer, much less attended a...
View ArticleDidn’t Know It Was a Devil Town: I Finally Watch “Friday Night Lights”
For years people told me I had to watch Friday Night Lights. And they all said the same four things: “Coach and Tami Taylor have the best marriage on television. I love how Dillon is its own character,...
View Article“The Art of Toilet Cleanliness”: Lucky Peach
life lessons:…The first option, the win-the-lotto option, was jam a coat hanger down in the grease trap and see if it’s a plastic bag blocking it or something. (One time I found some sorry asshole’s...
View Article“Monks and At-Risk Teens Run School Together”: HuffPo
you know this part stood out to me:…The other secret to their success is to let students lead — literally. The student body is divided into groups of about 25 kids each, in 7th to 12th grade, said Fr....
View ArticleHe That Increaseth Sorrow Increaseth Knowledge: Or, Notes on Meritocracy
This is a great piece but I guess the reason the end disappointed me is that it turns out to be a sardonic, passive-aggressive (not that there’s anything wrong with that) reaffirmation of the...
View ArticleFrom “The Leopard” to “Sword of Honour,” part three
[my apologies, taken down as I work on it for publication]
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