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4 books of 2021

Intro music to "Gather Us In" starts in the background, its volume at first almost imperceptibly quiet. Slowly, it gets louder and louder until the walls are shaking and every note sends pulses of searing pain through your skull. The Holy Father's eyes begin to glow.

🎶Gather us in, the Slav and the Tatar Gather us in, the serf and the lord Give us a heart so fierce and heroic Give us the courage to enter the horde🎶

Did George W. Bush paint this?

Class of 2013 represent

My ghost story is up at The Lamp. thelampmagazine.com/2022/01/21/30a/

I'm a bit more than halfway through los detectives salvajes and settling into my opinion that it is a mediocre novel. A little hard to see it turning around now.

Happy weekend. See you by the pool.

I suspect that biblical scholars get away with textual criticism and speculation that normal historians and scholars wouldn't dare to engage in. Their claim to be able to discern "authentic sayings," their confident reconstructions of what non-extant sources must have said, etc.

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Heroes of the Fourth Turning was really impressive

I heard that Andrew Wyeth had a near-death experience and saw Albrecht Dürer coming to bring him into the afterlife like Dante's Virgil.

I attended the Boomer Use of the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite this weekend, and learned of "Sing of the Lord's Goodness," a hymn that was obviously modeled on Dave Brubeck's "Take Five"

The Garden of Gethsemane. Pic from last December.

This is probably only because I read each author for the first time in quick succession, but Ivan Bunin's "The Scent of Apples"/"Antonovka Apples" really reminded me of Wendell Berry.

My latest story is out from behind the paywall.

just a little on the nose there

Looking into my crystal ball, I saw that in the future, people will have not only AI girlfriends and boyfriends, but AI children for which they will demand treatment equal to that of real children

I read A Canticle for Leibowitz and Lord of the World within the past year, and it's interesting that both of them present euthanasia as a distinctive feature of the dystopian future.

Just in case anyone already wants to place a bet on the next pope, we've got a cardinal named "Francis Leo"