Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

St Ambrose, whose feast falls on this date, refused to let the Emperor Theodosius I enter the Cathedral in Milan because he had blood on his hands for the illegal order to murder civilians in Thessalonica. ⚓️

QTP with a GIF of a powerful woman

Rep. Chris Pappas (D-Chicken Tenders) is the ideal gay politician for people who think Secretary Pete Buttigieg is not vanilla enough - but he’s cute and I love him and I wish him well.

I feel like we’re living in a real-life production of Chicago

C. S. Lewis died the very same day that President Kennedy was assassinated. WHAT DID HE KNOW?!?!?

If someone wrote a script about a snowboarder who become a cocaine trafficker, it would be laughed off as too up the nose - I mean, *on the nose.

It makes me happy that The Hymnal 1982 has both the Kaiserhymne and God Preserve the Tsar. It has God Save the King, too, but the lyrics are problematic 😝 ⚓️

“Christ is King” is not the same as “Jesus is Lord.” 1 Cor 12:3 tells us that no one can say the latter except by the Holy Spirit, but lots of people are anointed and there are lots of kings. I don’t think it’s the Holy Spirit that makes fascists and racists weaponize “Christ is King.” Anchor ⚓️

For Remembrance Sunday, the choir at St John’s in the Village performed Mozart’s Requiem and it was glorious: there was no mediocrity to absolve! ⚓️

Every Remembrance Sunday I visit the Washington Heights & Inwood WWI monument to say aloud the names of the 357 men from my neighborhood who died. I say the prayers from the Burial Office - and given the significant number of Jewish names, the Mourner’s Kaddish, too. We will remember them. ⚓️

I guess 170 is my stable weight for over 2 years now. I haven’t really tried to cut more but I also haven’t gained any back despite my prodigious alcohol consumption. BMI says I’m overweight but that doesn’t count the muscle mass which I’m proud to see is evident. I feel pretty good about my body.

Dick Cheney won’t see your jokes, but your friends who orchestrated a destructive and illegal war based on lies and also shot a guy in the face will.

Dick Cheney is dead. After so much Chaotic Evil, I’m feeling almost nostalgic for the era of Lawful Evil.

New “What Kind of Anglican Are You?” quiz: anglican-quiz.vercel.app It labeled me an Innovative High Tractarian and paired me with Newman, the patron saint of swimmers 🤦‍♂️ ⚓️

“But lo there breaks a yet more glorious day! The saints triumphant rise in bright array The King of Glory passes on his way Alleluia! Alleluia!” My heart always swells and my eyes get wet at that verse. ⚓️

I filled in the circle for the candidate who actually cares about struggling New Yorkers, won his party’s primary, and isn’t a certifiably insane cat hoarder. It’s notable that it’s the last point that tells you who I meant.

Tell me about an interesting saint you learned about since last All Saints’ Day ⚓️

Malmsey: a traditional option for disposing of inconvenient Royal Dukes

I remember when people really said that Bill de Blasio was a dangerous Communist who would destroy the city and turn it into a 3rd-World hellhole of crime and economic decay. What we got was just 8 years of well-intentioned feckless incompetence. I’m not impressed by the fear-mongering over Mamdani.

The night before All Hallows’ Eve is traditionally a night of pranks and mischief: egging houses, toilet-papering trees, nailing theses on the efficacy of indulgences to church doors… Be careful out there! ⚓️

I choose to believe that this is the origin of the meme

I for one would actually like to have a King, thank you very much. I’d be happy with any one of these.

We’re really doing this #NoKings thing again? If we had a King, we wouldn’t be in this mess!

Watching House of Guinness after bingeing Boots throws into high relief the contrast between the genres of “Hot Rich People Doing Rich People Drama” and “Hot Working-Class People Doing Working-Class Drama.” I’m eager for more proletarian programming.

I’m still reading Dilexi Te but I really don’t understand why Popes need to be so verbose. Do you really need 121 paragraphs to tell people that poor people deserve love, support, and social justice? Oh, yeah. That’s where we are now.

Any other Anglicans here who venerate Blessed Emperor Karl? I’ve met about 5 on Facebook ⚓️

I wish Katy Perry had stayed in space 💔

When Charlene sings that she’s “been undressed by kings,” I have determined that she means two (or more) of the following: Constantine II of Greece Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden Juan Carlos of Spain Hussein of Jordan Hassan II of Morocco

I simply cannot sing “And thou most kind and gentle death; waiting to hush our final breath.” There is nothing kind and gentle about death. I look forward to its ultimate destruction in the Resurrection. ⚓️

My only criticism of Franciscan spirituality is calling death our “sister” in the Canticle of the Sun and celebrating it in the hymn “All Creatures of Our God and King.” Death is not a creature of God: it’s the weapon of the Enemy that Jesus defeated and that will be destroyed on the Last Day. ⚓️

In Hunchback, the intro to “Hellfire,” perhaps my favorite Disney villain song of all time, is the Confiteor that includes the line “beatae Mariae semper virgini.” Thus the Perpetual Virginity of the BVM is enshrined in the Disney canon 😇 ⚓️

Me and parish friends with the new Archbishop of Canterbury, 2022 ⚓️

So many problematic plots both in fiction and non-fiction could be resolved by men remembering that they have hands.

Why does nothing comparable to the Society of Catholic Priests exist for the laity, the largest and most important order of the Church? I know there is demand for such a thing: people want connection and authentic spirituality and belonging. I just don’t know how to get something off the ground. ⚓️

If you are happy to be alive today, you owe a debt of gratitude to Stanislav Petrov

Two violent Antifa extremists - one of them a Communist! - engaging in subversive homosexuality

Why the hell not? This is me on 20 September, 2019 and 20 September, 2025. A once-in-a-century civilizational FUBAR happened between these pics and somehow I crawled out OK.

Under capitalism, there’s not really any difference between deliberately trying to get someone fired from their job and trying to kill them.

The Charlie Kirk débâcle is another thing we can lay at the feet of the fucking CERN beech marten

For some reason, powerful Latina women shouting from a flag-draped balcony to huge crowds hits me right in the corazón

Who else had “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise” today to go along with the reading from 1 Timothy? ⚓️

My favorite anecdote about Noel Coward is when HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother noticed him eyeing the footmen at Buckingham Palace: “I wouldn’t, if I were you. Like the silver, they count them before they set them out.”

This breaking news just in: Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell is STILL dead. Huzzah!

Nobody celebrated the Beheading of John the Baptist better than the Salome That Never Was ⚓️

I’m not a fan of Popish enormities but I’m quite fond of Polish enormities 🍆

Just as the pagans and other occultists have promoted “magick” to differentiate their practice from the flimflam of rabbits and girls sawed in twain, I think we should embrace “catholick” to celebrate our ancient traditions without confusion with the Popish enormities emanating from Rome. ⚓️

Today’s appointed epistle in the Office (TEC 1979 BCP) was St Paul in Malta

Is champagne time coming? Please please please!