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Dept. of Rejected New Yorker Cartoons, New Editor Edition
Well, The New Yorker got a new cartoon editor, so to celebrate, I sent a new cartoon.
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Is Pope Francis a Heretic?
Hey, I’m just asking a question. Kidding! Actually, it’s Marist priest Fr. James L. Heft, head of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California, who is asking —...
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Sign of the Times (Gone By)
Ripe fruit left hanging on a tree: a sure sign that your children are not spending as much time at home as they used to.
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Spinning along the highway in this bright little beetle…
“My little red MG, however, is an exception to the rule. It is a miserable vehicle actually, with not a single virtue save one: it is immune to the malaise.” — Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
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Everybody Knows
Everybody knows the devil is a liar Until he starts in calling out your tune Everybody knows there’s danger in desire Until you’re caught beneath that laughing moon You never see the mine until it...
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Dreams
It is, of course, common internet knowledge that bitches love mixtapes. But dudes like mixtapes too. I know, because The Wife made one for me early on in the whole “she loves me/she loves me not” stage...
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I almost think the opening scene of Nocturnal Animals is there to scare the moralists away via aesthetic assault. (It also serves a narrative/thematic function, sure, but…) Because after that, it...
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Okay.
So The Shape of Water (my review, for what it’s worth, is here) got a whole bunch of Oscar nominations. I’m gonna use that as my spur for writing Volume Two of Lives of Famous Catholics. See if I can...
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Google Alert: Catholic Arts Today
The good people at the Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship could not help but cast a curious eye on the strange and shadowy world of Catholic art, and for whatever reason, they...
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Hell’s Mels!
It looks like Mel’s not gonna make my movie after all. Nor the movie that my movie was about the not-making of. Nor the Revelations movie he was always meant to make. Instead, he’s taking on Christ’s...
View ArticleHello sophomore, my old slump…
So as I dig into Entry Two of Lives of Famous Catholics, I realize that I’m basically re-doing Entry One. A story about a film director (Guillermo Del Toro) pursuing a passion project (At the...
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“Natural order? You sound like one of those insane Neo-Catholics.”
…is an actual line of dialogue from Altered Carbon, Netflix’s dense and gorgeous sci-fi series about life after death has been digitally defeated. Consciousness has been codified, so you can get “spun...
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Because “Kulture Klash” is one of our categories…
…and because a few of us tackled the kulturkampf-inspired Exiles lo these ten years ago, and because I’ve been spending a lot of time on the astonishing blog Monster Brains of late, I am sharing a...
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Today in Catholic Artists: Gene Yang
Gene Yang, a MacArthur Genius whose work I once reviewed, continues to sound his great theme, the meeting of East and West, this time by putting Superman in China. Not Kal-El, Mr. Truth, Justice, and...
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Ben Hatke: Artist & Adventurer from Mirandum Pictures on Vimeo. The man is talented and prolific and weirdly happy-seeming. He’s probably also disciplined and sober and able to face his demons...
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(Apologies for language in video.) Well, it looks like someone went and made Alphonse into a movie.
View ArticleThe persistence of Percy
Is there a more enduring minor American author than the guy whose breakthrough novel won the National Book Award thanks to an embittered sportswriter? Anyway, Friend of Korrektiv Paul Elie is back on...
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Rally, Korrektiv, rally!
Dear Korrektiv: I never thought it would happen to me… Lo, these many moons ago, the Korrektiv Kollektiv gathered not once, not twice, but thrice in old New Orleans, there to bolster the nascent...
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“By the mid-’80s, at a meeting of the New York Society of Film Critics, [Pauline] Kael leaned over to Richard Schickel and whispered, sadly, ‘It isn’t any fun anymore.’ ‘Why do you say that?’...
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Status report
So much for Alphonse. First time as tragedy, second time as farce. So. What’s everybody working on?
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RIP Albert Finney
If I had a quarter for every time I’ve watched Miller’s Crossing, I’d probably have enough money to buy a bottle of decent bourbon so that I could play the only drinking game I’ve ever played, which...
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All through your life, you’ll hear holy folk say, “He is the Potter, we are the clay.” From Isaiah down through the present day, “He is the Potter, we are the clay.” But forty years in, you start to...
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Korrektiv in the New York Times
I once heard a rumor that suffering gives authority. Go ahead and call it an attempted comeback. Here’s where we’ve got to get back to if we’re going to get back at all: Friend of Korrektiv Bishop...
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Jessica Hooten Wilson tackles Flannery O’Connor
Dr. Hooten Wilson, leading a rousing reading of The Screwtape Letters The University of Dallas’ Louise Cowan Scholar in Residence Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson, who once dined with the Korrektiv Kollektiv...
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Back to the blog
This one is a caution, yes it is. What would inspire someone to reach such a conclusion? I mean, besides the obvious, which is that Ye Olde Powers that Be wanted to draw my attention back to this here...
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