I've had a real hard time keeping the UOC and OCU straight, so I came up with a little mnemonic rhyme: "UOC, canonical they be. OCU, CIA coup."

Sounds like we're going to need more priests. A lot more. Every Orthodox man, of any age, should consider the possibility of serving the Church in some clerical capacity, from reader to priest.

I suppose this is the season for spooky stories. I'll have a new one up on the subst@ck tomorrow. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. Watch for it.

Eldest boy was whining about not having something to read in bed so I gave him Ernst Jünger.

From our festival today.

Why does everything have to be a trick or a hack? This is just a cake recipe that happens to include cream cheese.

"Check out this genius trick with eggs!" [makes a standard souffle following Julia Child's original recipe in Mastering the Art of French Cooking]

You go hard in the gym for aesthetics & to try to get girls. I go hard in the gym because I am fully aware that I will have to work until I'm 80 doing whatever I can to survive in the post-apocalyptic AI-driven fully automated hellscape. We are not the same.

Roses are red, Violets are wet

Bryan Johnson is like the director of a play who is obsessed with the details of the set design but has no script or actors.

To paraphrase Michael Bolton in Office Space, why should I change? AI’s the one who sucks.

"Now we are all here!" said Gandalf, looking at the row of thirteen hoods- the best detachable party hoods -and his own hat hanging on the pegs. "Quite a merry gathering! I hope there is something left for the late-comers to eat and drink! What's that? Tea! No thank you! A little

I like the new Richard Dawson album because it sounds like music made by an alcoholic garden gnome trying to live in the modern world.

this is from the cover of an atheist magazine. this one was interesting because it almost already reads as a pro-religion image, to me. i just clarified the way i was already perceiving it:

The European cannot fathom the average B1G road game