On Friday, I buried a 91-year-old woman.

On Saturday, I celebrated the marriage of a young couple.

Today, I blessed and gave thanks for a beautiful six-month-old boy.

I don't get to hunt monsters or slay vampires, but I think my life is pretty exciting.

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It's always puzzled me as to how officially recognised spin-off novels of my favourite television shows can be so bad, given that the authors presumably have access to the show in ways that amateur fanfic writers can only dream of. But over my holiday last week I read Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers and Other Media Paratexts by Jonathan Gray ( Read more... )

I've just ordered a book. I shouldn't have, because it's not work-related and I have four piles of books I own but haven't yet read taking over my dining room table, but I just couldn't help it.

Because it's called A Study in Lavender: Queering Sherlock Holmes!

As this review says: "Scholars and fans have been arguing about the implications of ( Read more... )

NAMING your new bundle of joy Lucifer has been effectively banned by New Zealand's names registrar after three parents had the odd request knocked back.

But it just means "light-bringer" or "light-bearer". What a pity it can't be reclaimed.

Well, I guess it's a good thing that all those SPN AUs that have a Lucifer in them aren't set in NZ.

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A few months ago I had my fifteen minutes of fame. It was a lot of fun and I didn't make too much of an idiot of myself on television.

Those fifteen minutes are now well and truly over ... except that apparently a church in the eastern suburbs of our city approached the statewide board that determines where ministers are placed and said that they ( Read more... )

Thank you, starrylizard! I just received your postcard from London. Lovely to find a picture of Big Ben in my mailbox, even if all my jealousy has been revived.

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This is the sermon I preached yesterday

This service is full of superheroes, and I want to talk about two of mine. The first is a man who died the year I was born, which I find a bit sad, because I would have loved to have had the chance to meet him. His name was John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, and he was the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the ( Read more... )