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2017-09-19T18:40:24-04:00

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This Be the Horse: I write about “BoJack Horseman” some more

Last updated on: September 19, 2017 at 6:40 pm By Eve Tushnet

for America: Last week was the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows, and in his homily, the priest exhorted us to imagine our own mother suffering. “Who wouldn’t long to console their mother?” he asked. And I thought of my mom and did in fact agree that I’d want terribly to console her if she were suffering. But I also thought, You know, homilies like this are why some people dread going to church on Mother’s Day. And then I... Read more

Art

Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me

all of life is a choice of genre

Bojack Horseman

children will listen

2017-09-07T21:44:09-04:00

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Abnormal Beauties: Short horror reviews (films and book)

Last updated on: September 7, 2017 at 9:44 pm By Eve Tushnet

I recently got to live out a childhood dream. My best friend sent me to the South Salem Wolf Conservation Center, where I got up close and personal with Canis lupus (and sort of far-off and WASPily reticent with Canis rufus). We heard tales of wolves battling for dominance (and super losing–the wolf who had failed to become alpha was still skulking around in the back, and didn’t get to eat his venison sausages until the alpha and his sister... Read more

on beauty and being dust

totentanz

2017-08-21T07:43:29-04:00

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“Into the Swamp”: I’m at First Things

Last updated on: August 21, 2017 at 7:43 am By Eve Tushnet

watching a Spanish buddy-cop film that’s also about life after Franco: Marshland, the 2014 film from Spanish director Alberto Rodríguez which is still making the festival circuits here in the States, is a haunting combination of detective tale and truth-and-reconciliation case study. The film takes place in 1980, five years after the death of Gen. Francisco Franco. It’s got a classic buddy-cop setup, with a mismatched pair of homicide investigators—but our odd couple, Juan (Javier Gutiérrez) and Pedro (Raúl Arévalo),... Read more

Art

complicity

forgiveness

moral memories of the past

Spain vs. God

2017-08-14T23:28:17-04:00

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Cops and Bloggers: Two crime shows

Last updated on: August 14, 2017 at 11:28 pm By Eve Tushnet

I’m watching Flashpoint, a Canadian show about a sort of SWAT alternative team. They do high-stakes situations: The team includes crack-shot snipers and expert negotiators. I got into it because somebody said it was a cop show about talking people down instead of shooting them. It’s very CBS-y (I said that to a friend even before I found out that it in fact aired in the US on CBS). The dialogue can be pat, the cops’ personal drama can feel... Read more

the day the world turned day-glo

we stand on cars and freeze

2017-08-14T23:32:36-04:00

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Pretty Girls Make Graves: Short movie and book reviews

Last updated on: August 14, 2017 at 11:32 pm By Eve Tushnet

Films first. Poltergeist: The last movie I saw before my (successful, thank you St Lucy) cataract surgery. Despite the blurriness, this Tobe Hooper (but apparently really Steven Spielberg) joint had a terrific front half. For quite some time we’re in the world of Elm Street/Arachnophobia/The ‘Burbs, that world where you yell at your neighbors over the fence and your pot-smoking parental cuddling is interrupted by your kid’s bad dream. The pet funeral is both touching and ridiculous. I wanted to... Read more

Art

cupid and psycho

forgiveness

gayer than a picnic basket

girls like violence

God bless the 1990s because no one else will

2017-08-14T11:45:38-04:00

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A New Addition to the Very Small Bookshelf of Good Gay Christian Books

Last updated on: August 14, 2017 at 11:45 am By Eve Tushnet

Hey! I am excited to announce that Gregory Coles’s book is coming out. Single, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Faith and Sexual Identity is a short book, basically a memoir. I think I blurbed it as “raw and endearing” or something like that. It’s very honest about the pain he went through coming out within the evangelical world and trying to figure out what a future of love rather than despairing isolation might look like. It’s a painful read... Read more

Gay Catholic Whatnot

Mackerel-Snapping

Gay Catholic Whatnot

I don't believe in modern love

mackerel-snapping

2017-07-31T12:47:05-04:00

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The Cross and the Cannibal: I read “Fires on the Plain”

Last updated on: July 31, 2017 at 12:47 pm By Eve Tushnet

Fires on the Plain, Shohei Ooka’s 1951 novel of the Japanese defeat in the Philippines, lets you know what it’s like from the start. In the very first scene a tubercular private returns to his unit, having been kicked out of the field hospital because he doesn’t have enough rations to pay the doctors. His commanding officer slaps his face, gives him iirc six small potatoes (maybe fewer) and says to go back with those, and if they still won’t... Read more

Art

Mackerel-Snapping

Japan

killing in the name of

mackerel-snapping

moral memories of the past

Shohei Ooka

sublimity now

2017-07-24T10:10:39-04:00

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“Theology of the Booty”: I review a novel about pirate-utopians

Last updated on: July 24, 2017 at 10:10 am By Eve Tushnet

at First Things: A few years ago, the website You Had One Job posted a Disney cartoon in which children with headkerchiefs and parrot cavort above the legend, “A good pirate never takes another person’s property!” “Disney,” the website’s caption read, “doesn’t get . . . the concept of what a pirate is.” The pirates in Carmen Boullosa’s 1991 novel They’re Cows, We’re Pigs (translated from Spanish in 1997 by Leland H. Chambers) have a firmer grasp on their business... Read more

Art

George Orwell

in the flesh

sun sex sin death and destruction

the definition of revolutionary success

woman is the irony of the community

2017-07-12T23:01:13-04:00

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So Far from God, So Close to “Miami Vice”

Last updated on: July 12, 2017 at 11:01 pm By Eve Tushnet

So for reasons best known to my confessor, I decided to watch the premiere of Snowfall (a new drama on FX, set in 1983 LA, about “how crack began”) right after watching the premiere of Miami Vice (an NBC procedural, do I need to tell you guys this?, made and set in 1984 Miami). This viewing strategy is not flattering to the new show. I don’t mean to beat up on Snowfall too badly. It’s adequate and I’ll watch more... Read more

Art

all of life is a choice of genre

every day is self-parody day

Miami Vice

Michael Mann

the day the world turned day-glo

the war on some drugs

turn your watch back about a hundred thousand years

2017-07-12T16:51:54-04:00

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Churchgoing While Homeless: Seeking Your Stories

Last updated on: July 12, 2017 at 4:51 pm By Eve Tushnet

Hello all. I’m working on a piece for America magazine that will share people’s stories and reflections on going to church while homeless. I’m looking for honesty: what was beautiful, what was really difficult, what you wish had been done differently. How have your experiences shaped your faith? What would you tell your church if they asked you to preach about your experiences going to church while living on the streets, in shelters etc? I’ve talked to both currently- and... Read more

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