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August 2014

August 15, 2014

Book Extras: The “Gay and Catholic” Drinking Game

Because if it weren't for bad taste, I'd have no taste at all. First, preorder...

August 15, 2014

New Series: DVD Extras from My Great Big Gay Catholic Book

Hey people. Did you know I have a book coming out? THAT'S RIGHT. Pre-order that...

August 06, 2014

“Youngest Son Adds Laments to the Indie Hymnal”: I’m at AmCon

with some music: We’ve tussled here about the possible merits of Mumford & Sons, and...

July 2014

July 11, 2014

“Carrie White Will Never Die”: I review the Carrie musical

at AmCon: Carrie is the only book I ever put down because I knew I...

July 04, 2014

Musical Rosary #13: Descent of the Holy Spirit

Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven staying in Jerusalem. At this...

July 03, 2014

A 1987 of the Heart: I Rewatch “Less Than Zero”

...because of course I do. So this used to be on Netflix streaming, but I...

July 03, 2014

I’m Interviewed in America Magazine About “Gay and Catholic”

and vocation, the Eucharist, why we should all care less about the Pope, etc etc:...

July 01, 2014

Musical Rosary #10–Resurrection

After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

Musical Rosary #8–Crowning with Thorns

Weaving a crown out of thorns,they placed it on his head, and a reed in...

June 23, 2014

Musical Rosary #7–The Scourging at the Pillar

But he was pierced for our sins, crushed for our iniquity. He bore the punishment...

June 20, 2014

Musical Rosary #4–Presentation

When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, they...

June 18, 2014

Musical Rosary #3–The Nativity

MORE BABIES, until now I don't think I'd realized how much the first three mysteries...

June 16, 2014

A Musical Rosary–The Visitation

During those days Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to...

June 13, 2014

“Music of the Trilobites”: I’m in AmSpec

on music, drinking, and John Darnielle's novel Master of Reality. You can read it now...

June 04, 2014

My Summer Reading 2014 (And Also Other People’s)

at the University Bookman--although actually I just started Gilgi, by the same woman who wrote...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

Who Are You and What Do You Want?: I watch a play

at the Studio Theater, Cock, playing through June 22. It's by Mike Bartlett, the guy...

May 21, 2014

“Music of the Trilobites”: Me in AmSpec

not really a book review! I read John Darnielle’s 2011 novel Master of Reality under the...

May 08, 2014

“Amends”: My Novel Seeking Agent/Publisher

So I wrote a comedic novel set during the filming of a reality-TV show about...

March 2014

March 23, 2014

Videos on Homosexuality and Chastity in the Catholic Church

I'm in this: What you’ll find here are videos by a group of faithful gay...

March 13, 2014

Yet More Gay Catholic Whatnot

Enough is never enough of Gay Catholic Stuff. Anyway here's a bunch of the Usual...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

In the LA Area? Come See Movies and Also Me!

The Level Ground Film Festival, which explores the intersection of Christian faith and LGBT life,...

February 15, 2014

Blogwatch, With Her Gummy Hands

Some links for a slushy Saturday evening. "LGBT Rights and the UN: What the Church...

February 12, 2014

Addiction and the Politics (and Poetics) of Personal Responsibility: me at AmCon

a listicle, and for some reason I saved the best stuff for the end, so...

February 01, 2014

My Panel at Level Ground Film Festival

I'll be on a panel at Level Ground, a film festival in Pasadena, CA dedicated...

February 01, 2014

Your Profession of Faith Is Not the Catholic Church’s TOS

Walk with me through some possibly ill-formed and definitely ill-informed thoughts about what it means...

January 2014

January 29, 2014

Out of the Closets and Into the Pews!

My piece for AmCon on gay Christians coming out is online! Coming out of the...

January 22, 2014

Nice mention in The Irish Catholic!

...Even aside from the sad fact that Catholics have often used the Church’s teaching as...

January 21, 2014

Snow Day Thoughts

A series of points too small for a real post. * While I was in...

December 2013

December 19, 2013

Against Opinions: Wisdom from Susan Sontag and Richard Hell

I think about this quote a lot: There was one thing [Sontag] said that I...

December 14, 2013

The Catholic Writer and the Skating Boom, Or Every Day Is Self-Parody Day

"[Kathleen] Hanna wanted to become a writer. But Kathy Acker, a counterculture writer Hanna admired,...