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Moses The Black Artist: Hunter Biden

The repaving action around here has been insane. Spotted on the walk home.

Chemicals Make You Small

When I read that Hammock had collaborated with The Flaming Lips on their song "Chemicals Make You Small," I was a bit shocked. Wayne Coyne and The Lips are brash, experimentally noisy, irreverent, sometimes goofy and often oversaturated. They seem to have almost the opposite of Hammock's ethereal, slow, quiet and completive approach. Echoes and...

Jim Carol New Year

With Life in Small Spaces, the upcoming album from Black Marble, the project's creator, Chris Stewart, taps into one of my semi-obsessions. The album's description on its Bandcamp page has further details on the clue we are given with the album title. It is an invitation to accept and consciously agree to a more minimal...

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Six Flags White House

Kevin D. Williamson writes for The Dispatch about the spectacle of setting up a UFC match on the White House lawn. It does not matter whether you live in a trailer park or a brick ranch house or something more grand and getting grander, it is all the same: Tornado bait is tornado bait. When...

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The Roman Pontiff vs. AI

The pope is so hot right now. Everyone is discussing the long-awaited Magnifica Humanitas papal encyclical from the Roman Pontiff. It makes sense. In a world where much of the responsibility for moral leadership has been abdicated, we are in much need of a figure who can provide that leadership with reach and authority. Enter...

There are some amazing photos of holy sites in France coming from @eastbrad. I was especially enthralled by Mont-Saint-Michel.

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Van's yellow and black Half Cabs. The official shoe of Canned Dragons.

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Black Butterflies

Kupajo warns us to beware of black butterflies. Male grayling butterflies prefer to mate with darker female graylings. When caged with a female grayling and a cardboard cutout of a grayling painted black, the male will choose the cardboard cutout over the female. Beyond being an example of bro falling for an unrealistic standard of...

I attempted to attend Divine Liturgy at another Orthodox parish today, but couldn't even get into the nave because there were so many people.

Star Wars The Product

What Star Wars owes to its fans and commercial interests.

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