Just watched The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Good movie; not LoTR, but that was inevitable: it's a short and lovely allegory, but not in itself an epic. This is where we keep our history, so they can't find it. I liked Edmund's introductory scene: the themes of disobedience and filial piety being simultaneously evoked in the same action was ( Read more... )

( Just the facts, plain and simple. )

While I am still insufficiently sane to make a real post, I'd like to observe that today, I walked by one of our neighbor's houses. I said "Good afternoon," and he, an elderly man smoking a pipe with a blue bandana on, holding the detached wheel of his lawnmower, chortled and replied, "Good afternoon to you too" with a warm British accent. Keep ( Read more... )

Do You Care ( Read more... )

It's official: I will be leaving Rhode Island for Pennsylvania in approximately a month and a half. While there is an outside chance that I could move to Kingston or New York, I give NY a less than 10% chance and Kingston less than 2%. I am under the current impression that this is an entirely good thing. It's a better place for me now, and I ( Read more... )

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So what are Justice and the Tower, then?

I ran into a man after church this Sunday, coming up George St., riverwards. He asked me how to get to Benevolent St., and I told him that he would have to turn right at the next intersection. What is that street, up ahead? Hope, I told him. And where is Benevolent? Turn right, on Hope. What about Governor? Um, Governor runs parallel to Hope, it's ( Read more... )

( In which I slowly but steadily get even more hardcore than usual, though in a curiously hopeful way by the end of it all. )

All right, in general I fear webquizzes and the posting thereof to online journals, but this one... well... suffice to say I fear it more than I fear its presentation, and feel an exorcism to be in order ( Read more... )

( In which I realize that I have not at all adressed the question of whether gay marriages / civil unions should be acceptable to the Church, and do so. )