Hey some news from my place of employment: Bexley Seabury (where I am academic dean) got a $10 million grant to establish an Indigenous Theological Circle to provide theological education, formation, and congregational studies for Indigenous communities! episcopalnewsservice.org/pressrelease...

Has nobody seen the relevant Black Mirror episode(s)? This is a situation where reality might be worse than what Black Mirror can nightmare up for us.

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

Hey I don't have Spotify Wrapped to share b/c I DO NOT USE Spotify or Pandora to listen to music. They have destroyed any way for artists to earn anything from having their music played. Buy directly from artists on Bandcamp or other sites! #SpotifySux wilcohq.bandcamp.com/album/a-ghos...

Just in time for a remastered release of the classic Spinal Tap album…

Then I was all “Say ‘uniate’ again. I dare you. I double procession dare you.”

Introduce Yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen 1. Public Enemy 2. They Might Be Giants 3. The Village People 4. Lemongrass, Soul Asylum, Soundgarden (single admission to club where all 3 played back to back) 5. Bob Dylan

So say we all.

This here’s a jam for all the faithful Trying to do what those prophets tell us Get shot down cuz ur over zealous Trying to do what the Torah tells us You know what to do yeah Bust a move

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure Do the Right Thing Strange Brew Commando

Every time I see a quote by Martin Buber I think of the Jewish chaplain at my university who I played with on Religion Dept softball team who said reason he was able to play shortstop at age 60 was "I have an I-thou relationship with the ball." Here's a photo of that team.

Favorite Star Trek Character. Wrong answers only. “I’m not a doctor, I’m the dude, Jim.”

When it’s not enough to sleep on The Hooman’s pillows but you also need to rearrange them to support your chin and your butt. (And yes I am a growed ass person who has Star Wars sheets.)

Discovered this Mr Quackers crime scene when I got home but thankfully there is a suspect in custody. @weratedogs.com

From Amazon’s front splash page this morning. “We cannot get out. The end comes. Drums in the deep…they are coming…”

From Amazon’s front splash page this morning. “We cannot get out. The end comes. Drums in the deep…they are coming…”

People be all "Oh wow an extra hour's sleep". I'm like oh yeah I guess there are people who don't have dogs who don't know from daylight savings time... HAI TIME FOR THE WALK

I asked the neighbors if we get Trick or Treaters in this neighborhood and they said not many so I said "Do you end up with a lot of leftover candy?" and the guy says very seriously, "That depends on how much candy you start with, don't it."

Rev. Dog assisting with handing out candy.

The greatest year for music ever! Many perfect albums from 1989 to post…

About to watch a horror classic: Its The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Think about it! Has Linus' descent into madness, the cruelty of other children to Charlie Brown, Snoopy cosplaying so thoroughly he internalizes PTSD and trauma of war, and a serial killer in town who gives rocks to children.

Getting strong Christopher Lee Wicker Man vibes from the local pumpkin fest …

“The vacuum cleaner can’t get me under the bed.”

My uncle worked for Alexander Graham Bell as a child doing odd jobs for him then later fought in the Battle of the Bulge (for Canada) where he got shot 25 times and was left for dead but survived.

Everybody likes to talk about the Terminator and SkyNet but I think our eventual AI apocalypse will look a lot more like the TechnoCore in the Fall of Hyperion...

I stand by this meme I use it a lot...

New book dropped, just in time for spooky season. Seminary's motto is "Beyond Walls" wanted to look to future & call it "Beyond Beyond Walls". Editor said nobody would get it. Was reminded that "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" and agreed. wipfandstock.com/979838524085...

I became a monthly sustaining pledge member with my local NPR the awesome and important @nhpr.org !

Covered Augustine in church history class this week. One of my favorite responses to a question was when student asked years ago “Why did Augustine leave Milan & go back to Carthage” I said “Because like Right Said Fred he realized he was too sexy for Milan.” Shout out to one student who laughed.

Hai I noticed you were eating lunch…

How it started looking up…how it ended look g down…this mornings hike.

I was at a video arcade with my son and some of his friends and someone was doing a work Zoom call in the middle of the arcade with their laptop on a flat tabletop Ms Pac Man game and was not using headphones.

I needed to share a password with someone earlier today and while I was glad to help this person it also required me to disclose the password in question is JeterS**ks69 and I am totally not sorry for that. #Masshole

There was literally that Black Mirror episode on this - the next horror in much of society’s unthinking wallow in AI’s ensh*ttifcation of everything will be monetizing and exploiting grief with bad AI chatbots.

Guy named Tolle making major league debut for Sox tonight wish I was at the game to start the “Tolle! Lege!” Cheer Where my Augustine peeps at

Hearing the sad news of the death of the great Terence Stamp — among his many many great roles he was General Zod in the Reeve Superman movies — here’s my license plate from when I lived in Ohio.

The 10 ft long 18 inch wide 18 inch deep ditch the boy and I dug…he said “We did it” and I said “We’re Irish, our people know how to dig holes. We dug the Erie Canal by hand, we dug the Boston subway by hand.”

It is my sad duty to report that in the Year 2025 there are still people who hit "Reply All" on an email and unknowingly send personal messages meant for an individual, not the whole list.

What GIF pops up when you type your name? Really prescient here because also reflects current mood.

Watching the Billy Joel documentary on HBO - wish they had done more on his concerts in the USSR in summer of 1987. I was studying there and saw him in Moscow, had no ticket, but I got in…1/5

Golden hour sunset, Meredith, New Hampshire…

www.newportri.com/obituaries/p... Rest in peace, Hays Rockwell. I am now the last living Dean of Bexley Hall Seminary.

Furthest north: Uppsala, Sweden Furthest east: Moscow Furthest south: Mexico City Furthest West: Hawaii

Saw thread on another site on weird 1st dates here's mine: back in 1990s over dinner the date talked about how their apartment was haunted by a ghost clown and when she found out I was studying for the ministry asked if I could do an exorcism I said as student wasn't allowed and she got big mad.

The defenestration of Prague - it sounds like an album by a 1970s prog rock band. Plus the dudes defenestrated survived a 75 foot fall that’s metal AF. (Also to clarify I am referring to 1618 defenestration of Prague there were several of them.)

The boy and I are going to see Hundreds of Beavers movie tonite and all day I have been doing my dad joke best referring to it as "Fourscore and Seven Beavers", "A Handful of Beavers", "3.14159 Beavers", "A Cornucopia of Beavers", and still have several more in the can to trot out later.

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Hello, I’m a dean in a film. I spend my time obsessing over a tiny fraction of the student body and to exact revenge on them I plot ways to violate the policies of my institution as well as federal regulations and laws, all the while ignoring the routine matters which are 95 percent of my job.