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February 2022

February 21, 2022

“Urban planning can facilitate friendship–and the Catholic Church can help”: I’m in America

with a sort of overstuffed article that I do think contains some good & interesting...

March 2021

March 01, 2021

The Long Shadow of the 1990s: A short movie note

I recently watched 17 Blocks on streaming. This is a documentary shot over almost twenty...

December 2019

December 03, 2019

Grifter, Tagger, Hobbit, Beast: Many very short film notes

LET'S DO THIS. The Lady Eve: Watched it again and loved it even more. Barbara...

September 2019

September 14, 2019

Just Because You’re Paranoid: I watch “Doubt” at Studio Theatre

One of the central points of Gavin de Becker's terrific book The Gift of Fear...

April 2019

April 23, 2019

Were You There When the Stone Was Rolled Away? Triduum Notes from a Gone-Away City

Some personal news: Christ is risen! Holy Thursday: I avoided the Triduum services at my...

March 2019

March 07, 2019

The Shortest, Gladdest Daze of Life: Brief movie reviews

Primal Fear: A 1996 suspense flick that feels more late-'80s. Richard Gere plays a transcendantly...

December 2018

December 29, 2018

Romance Is Not a Children’s Game: Short book and movie reviews

A motley assortment, although I guess they do all roughly fit the post title. Camille...

September 2018

September 04, 2018

From Apocalypse to Revelation

Some notes about the Catholic Church. # There's a bit in an early voiceover from...

December 2017

December 09, 2017

Death by Stereo: Movie notes

Starting with the low point, I'm afraid. Spinning into Butter is an extremely '90s tale...

November 2017

November 02, 2017

“Fearful Grasping”: I review “Native Gardens”

for Commonweal: "Your new neighbors”: Few phrases evoke such a mix of hope and dread....

June 2017

June 29, 2017

“The Smithsonian Goes to Church”: Ivan Plis

has a fun piece on what the Museum of American History says is its very...

December 2016

December 24, 2016

“Unexpected Beauty in the Union Station Metro”: Prince of Petworth

posts: Tymara Walker posts on youtube (thanks to all for sending links): “This is the...

December 02, 2016

DC/MD Catholics: Be a Church Companion for a Pregnancy Center!

Hey y'all. The pregnancy center where I volunteer has this excellent newish program of church...

November 2016

November 08, 2016

Assisted Suffering

So, I voted. Remember how I said my ballot would be a fractal of civic...

November 08, 2016

“Net Worth of White Households in DC Region is 81 Times That of Black Households”: Washington Post

basically runs a press release from the Urban Institute, but since I wanted to read...

November 07, 2016

Why I’m Voting for DC Statehood Tomorrow

It's not because I think DC should be a state. "I don't even think that's...

September 2016

September 21, 2016

In the DC Area? Have Questions About Faith, Family, & LGBT Christians? Fond of Picnicking?

Come and picnic on Saturday, Oct 1, with Always God's Children, the ministry of St...

July 2016

July 07, 2016

“City of Good Intentions”: I review a local history show

at the Anacostia Museum: Sometimes it seems like the nation’s capital is really two cities:...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

From Natalie Hopkinson, “Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City”

At that, the crowd of about two hundred youngsters detonated. They began to pair off,...

June 24, 2016

The Soul Searchers: Four Moral Histories of Washington, DC

In preparation for this exhibit at the Anacostia Museum I've been reading about my hometown's...

May 2016

May 21, 2016

Masochism, Macbeth, Mayors, Marvel and More: My May Movie… Notes.

Missives? Anyway. The Duke of Burgundy: Lush flick about two butterfly researchers and their dominance

May 20, 2016

“Famous Monsters of Filmland”: I review Tim Powers’s new novel

for AmCon: The novels of dark fantasist Tim Powers often flow out of weird, grim...

April 2016

April 05, 2016

“Every Last One Was a Mother to Me”: Four DC Women Live a Century of Friendship

from the Washington Post: ...In Southwest Washington, people tended to live out their days in...

March 2016

March 24, 2016

“Love and Death in the Multiverse”: I review “Constellations”

for AmCon. Sorry for radio silence! I will be back after Easter. Also this play...

January 2016

January 25, 2016

PJ Harvey’s New Album Will Be (Partly) DC-Themed!!

Teenage me would be so obnoxious right now: The album was created in conjunction with...

December 2015

December 02, 2015

“Married, With Roommates: Why My Wife and I Choose to Live in a Group House”: Vox

voxes: ...Once we saved up enough money to buy a house of our own in...

November 2015

November 18, 2015

Prepare for Life in Post-Christian America: Play “After Virtue”–The Game!

or, my review of Winners and Losers: “Winners and Losers,” created by Marcus Youssef and...

November 18, 2015

My Top 10 Young Adult & Middle-Grade Novels About Drugs and Addiction

at The Fix: The YA addiction novel has become its own mini-industry. Which ones offer...

September 2015

September 21, 2015

Papal Fever: Prayer Grotto and Pope Plushies in Phila…. Security Barriers and Metro Madness in DC

So this country is kind of losing what remains of its mind over the Pope,...

September 07, 2015

The Long, Hot Summer: Jesse Walker on Rising Crime in US Cities

at Reason: ...On top of all that, there's the simple fact that we don't know...