This morning my son reminded me that when he transitioned, he picked “King” as his first name, partially based on Track 3, Side 1 of “Can’t Buy A Thrill” and I feel like there is no greater homage to my work as a parent.

Happy Tour of Flanders to all who celebrate!

Something strange is happening. ⚓️

All this time I thought "translunar injection burn" referred to the "your mama" joke that Bryce Huckabay scalded me with in 8th grade.

It's not my piety at all, but I'm so tempted to go to the coffee shop in my cassock.

🦋 is this Eucharistic Adoration?

Matt Damon is nine years older than Stellan Skarsgard was when “Good Will Hunting” was released.

Can’t afford universal child care, but whitey’s on the moon.

Guys, there's a place where you might not have birthright citizenship, but you can get adopted super easy. Let's open our bibles to Romans.

Spy Wednesday - Anyone want to go for a walk in the dark?

Tuesday in Holy Week: Trans Day of Visibility and its foolishness to those who are perishing

I have, in the past, poo-poo'ed the rock salt and rubbing alcohol formula for a new fire; however, since I don't want to be in the news for setting Colorado alight, we will be doing said rock salt thing this Saturday.

Monday of Holy Week - Lazlo's smile still reached his cheeks, but it no longer creased the skin around his eyes. He'd show up for a cookout and everyone would act like they were happy to see him, but he inevitably wound up in a corner, picking at his plate.

Over the weekend I was very disciplined about getting lots of rest so as to be prepared for this week, but then I went to see live music last night and blew all that out of the water. I have no ragrets. Not one letter.

Encarta Forever!

Palm Sunday. Jesus says to the leaders of his community, "If you really want to hear our view ..." The first in an uncertain series of reflections for Holy Week.

I love that there is a No Kings protest in my town today, but it is scheduled to go for four hours and I'm just not sure I can give that much time to preserve democracy.

Morgan Geer : Jimmy Buffett :: Tom Waits : Ben Harper

“And in the morning you say, ‘The band will break up soon because Skunk Baxter has left.’ You know how to make sense of Michael McDonald’s arrival. But you are unable to recognize the signs that point to what the time is.” Gadd 3:16

Today’s orgy of record listening has reached the inevitable Steely Dan stage.

If the Oxford Movement was, at least in part, as aesthetic response to the dehumanizing dreariness of the industrial revolution, what aesthetic might we offer in response to the dehumanizing potential of AI?

Brand New Country Star : You Can Have The Crown :: The Wino and I Know : Living the Dream

I’ve got my Doc Martens on I guess I never was meant For cardinal pulpit roles

The fifth Beatle? More like the first Beatle of the modern era.

The difference between hearing “Carry That Weight” as a curse or as a gift is love.

The whole point of spending too much money on stereo equipment is to get goosebumps when “Golden Slumbers” comes on, even though you’ve heard it a hundred times.

I built a sermon around this photograph two weeks ago. For what that's worth.

This concept did not quite work for this use case, but I will try again with something else.

Can't be coincidental that ABC Sarah is being installed on the Feast of the Annunciation, right?

It is a weird aspect of my weird job that I'm all of a sudden interested in medical stuff. Like, I never aspired to be a nurse or doctor but walking with a parishioner through a major cardiac event has me wondering about the differences in recovery from this as opposed to all the joint remplacements

The love of Jesus Christ, which passes all understanding

Why yes, I have started riding my bike outside again. Why do you ask?

Maybe if Vandy had a large, loud, annoying noisemaker that they could set off every time they score?

Why does my neighbor insist on leaf blowing the street for hours on end?

Literally impossible to be a Pogacar hater when he does Pogacar things.

TIL that when Daniel Berrigan went underground, he spent a significant amount of time in William Stringfellow's home and was ultimately found and arrested there.

Is this rabbit hole -- in which I am trying to find out of Paul's use of "nekros" and "thanatos" constitutes a distinction that makes a difference -- is this rabbit hole a distraction from the point or the actual point?

Purity Dairy, the Goo-Goo Cluster factory, and one of the local Civil War battlefields (pro-tip: don't kick the cannon ball that's embedded in a stump if you're wearing sandals).

The religion nerds were all like "who is that sitting next to Kate Bowler" at the Duke game.

98% of me is all "different people do different things"and 2% has no earthly idea why someone would buy records just to play them through bluetooth speakers.

Why does all the reporting on the State of the Union treat this as a normal, predictable time in politics?

What's so great about the Litany?

Tombstone pizza

Y'all ever notice that the priest does not actually pronounce absolution in the Ash Wednesday liturgy?

I'm fixing to be the Anglican Communion's leading expert on best use cases, liturgical and otherwise, for mayonnaise. Would anyone like to be in the top 5?

I’m amazed that none of these curlers has fallen flat on their butt.

I mean, it's hard to justify wanting to keep a 95 from passing through the veil, but also, dammit.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

I feel a little sorry for Pitt, but Carolina is giving its fans the kind of Valentine we need at the moment.

Woody Paul Chrisman, fiddler for the cowboy group Riders in the Sky (and nuclear physicist).