Romoeroticism

InsideCatholic.com - Romoeroticism

"This year, just like last year, Gay Pride weekend coincided with the feast of Corpus Christi.

Washington, D.C.'s Pride parade was fairly restrained: It featured a cornucopia of Episcopalians, and all the marchers went out of their way to sweetly drape beads over the little elementary-school girls standing in front of me. There were Affirming Baptists; as the parade passed by me, a knot of gay men to my right joked -- in that gay way that is never really joking all the way down -- that maybe they could be Baptists again now. There were strollers, lots of strollers . . . at least five floats' lengths away from the guys in the padded leather thongs..."

check it out.

Yesterday turned into one long discussion on homosexuality, gay rights, how do I interact with my gay friends at my conservative christian college etc. This morning I woke up and found this recommended by an Anglican man I very much respect.

For a more personal and indepth discussion on the positions on homosexuality in the church check out: http://slaggetyslagg.blogspot.com/

The Bristol * A Neighborhood Eatery & Bar

The Bristol * A Neighborhood Eatery & Bar
The Bristol offers a locally-sourced and seasonal menu with
Mediterranean roots. The diverse menu includes bar snacks,
daily specials, a rotating chalkboard menu featuring nose-to-tail
cooking, charcuterie and 5th Quarter offerings focusing on
sustainable foodstuffs.


intriguing and so much money.

Romanian ruminations

favorite new photographer.
vlad eftenie.

Raconteurs Bang Bang

one of the best live covers

The Building Stage adapts Wagner’s Ring Cycle - Time Out Chicago

The Building Stage adapts Wagner’s Ring Cycle - Time Out Chicago

Court 13

Every so often a group of commited artists come together and create a place for smart, witty, and deeply meaningful work to be generated. Introducing Court 13, a group out of New Orleans, that has garnered quite a bit of heartfelt support over the last few years. Their latest endeavor, Glory At Sea (which has been nominated for numerous awards after its showing at the latest SXSW) is set in their home of New Orleans, immediately post-Katrina. While I think everyone should check out their most mature film to date, their other films, especially Death to the Tinman, are insightful, smart and possess the disjointed irony of a Wes Anderson film that seems to be influencing so many of the twenty-something writers I know.

If there's one thing you should do before the semester begins, spending 10-25 minutes with one of Court 13s shorts is it.

more tony to end the year

Reasons to Survive November
Tony Hoagland

November like a train wreck –
as if a locomotive made of cold
had hurtled out of Canada
and crashed into a million trees,
flaming the leaves, setting the woods on fire.

The sky is a thick, cold gauze –
but there’s a soup special at the Waffle House downtown,
and the Jack Parsons show is up at the museum,
full of luminous red barns.

– Or maybe I’ll visit beautiful Donna,
the kickboxing queen from Santa Fe,
and roll around in her foldout bed.

I know there are some people out there
who think I am supposed to end up
in a room by myself

with a gun and a bottle full of hate,
a locked door and my slack mouth open
like a disconnected phone.

But I hate those people back
from the core of my donkey soul
and the hatred makes me strong
and my survival is their failure,

and my happiness would kill them
so I shove joy like a knife
into my own heart over and over

and I force myself toward pleasure,
and I love this November life
where I run like a train
deeper and deeper
into the land of my enemies.