• At the Old Mass

    In New Orleans on Sunday we went to Mass at St. Patrick’s, where there is a weekly Sunday morning Tridentine Mass (note to non-Catholics: this is what’s commonly referred to as “the old Mass” or “the old liturgy”—it’s in Latin and is different in other significant ways from the current Mass in local languages). I want…

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  • I’m going to be out of town and away from computers for most of the weekend. So when you want a hit of LoDW, you can listen to and watch these over and over again instead of reading some balderdash from me. They say a lot of what I want to say but can’t, anyway.…

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  • Pier in Fog

    I haven’t posted many pictures recently, and the reason is that they never look very good as they come from the camera, and I spend a lot of time and drive myself a little crazy tinkering with them. For instance, it was quite foggy Monday morning, and I took a number of pictures when I…

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  • You may have heard this film recommended; I’m pretty sure it’s been mentioned at least once in comments here. It was very highly praised a year or two ago when it came out. Set in 1984 in East Germany, it’s about a Stazi (secret police) official who finds himself sympathetic to a couple on whom…

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  • …how bad an idea it is to forget the root password on an HP-UX system in trusted mode, the answer is: pretty bad. Not at all related, but just because I’ve been having a bad day, here’s some humor from xkcd (click to enlarge if you can’t read it): This one’s not funny but I…

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  • I’m not, in general, a fan of the poppy Christian-themed music known sometimes as contemporary christian music (CCM) or praise-and-worship music. I do tend to like it better than the Catholic Glory and Praise or Gather sort of thing, which falls into some queasy-making place between The Kingston Trio and Broadway. CCM/P&W tends to be…

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  • Link Updates

    I’m adding John Schwenkler’s blog, Upturned Earth. And Amy Welborn is now blogging at BeliefNet, under the title Via Media, so I’m replacing the link to her old blog, Charlotte Was Both, with the new one. The post which is currently at the top there continues her wrestling with the recent death of her husband,…

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  • Truth Beyond Culture

    A Guest Post by Janet Cupo Janet and I were discussing, in email, the power of certain Christian symbols. I mentioned that in an unfinished (and probably never to be finished) novel I have a character who’s not Catholic but is quietly haunted by the image of the Sacred Heart as a symbol of the…

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  • And to emulate. I’ve put off doing this post since sometime this afternoon, wanting to say something meaningful in addition to linking to these two posts at Toby Danna’s blog. But if it’s possible to add anything useful to them, it would take more time than I have at the moment, so here they are:…

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  • “I’m not the panicky type.” Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js

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