As far as I’m concerned, Bob Dylan hasn’t put out a bad album in the last sixteen years. (I would have said nineteen, but, well - sorry, Under the Red Sky, I tried to like you). His original songs have been great lately - funny, pretty, harsh, and intense, all at the same time.
In fact, [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Obscure Late-Period Dylan Song Blogging - Huck’s Tune
Posted in Dylan, Music, tagged Dylan, Five Stars, Huck's Tune, Lucky You, Obscure Dylan Song, Soundtrack on April 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Fundamentalist Mormon Sects: A Handy Dandy Guide, Part 3
Posted in Religion, tagged Mormonism, Fundamentalism, Polygamy, plural marriage, LDS, FLDS, cults on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The final installment in a longer-than-I-intended series on Mormon fundamentalism. Check out Part 1 and Part 2 to get some background, otherwise, forge ahead!
True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days
Flock: 300-500
Locale: Manti, Utah
Extracurricular Beliefs: Wow, this is going to be long. First there’s polygamy, Adam-God Doctrine and the Law [...]
Fundamentalist Mormon Sects: A Handy Dandy Guide, Part 2
Posted in Religion, tagged Mormonism, Polygamy, plural marriage, LDS, FLDS, mormon fundamentalists, doctrine, cults on April 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
To really get the most out of this, you should probably read Part 1 of the Handy Dandy guide, where I explained the doctrines that set these groups apart from mainstream Mormonism. Yeah, you know what polygamy is, but what’s the Adam-God theory?
Today’s post outlines the groups themselves. This was going to be all one [...]
St. Aldegundis
Posted in Obscure Saint Blogging, Religion, tagged Belgium, Catholicism, maidens, medieval, nuns, saints, Satan, visionaries on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
St. Aldegundis, also known as Aldegonde, Aldegund, or Adelgondis, was born in Flanders in 639 CE, in the county of Hainaut, which straddled the borders of modern Belgium and France. Her parents, Walbert and Bertilia, and her sister, Waldetrudis, are also all saints. In fact, her nieces and nephews by Waldetrudis: also all saints. They [...]
Fundamentalist Mormon Sects: A Handy Dandy Guide, Part 1
Posted in Religion, tagged FLDS, Fundamentalism, Latter Day Saints, LDS, Mormonism, plural marriage, Polygamy on April 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been lying awake nights the past two weeks, worrying over the fact that I am leaving all fifteen readers of this blog bereft of information on the recent fundie Mormon polygamy busts in Texas. The problem is, not only have I been crazy busy with the deadly combo of a college class, full time [...]
Checks and Balances, Dammit!
Posted in Government, Politics on April 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Spread the power around, people.
St. Blaise
Posted in History, Obscure Saint Blogging, Religion, tagged antiquity, bishops, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, matryrs on April 18, 2008 | No Comments »
This week we’ve got our first Armenian saint, St. Blaise. He’s probably the least obscure saint I’ve covered yet–at least one former Catholic I asked had a vague idea of who he was.
Blaise was also hugely popular in the Middle Ages, because he was one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers/ Martyrs, a group of saints [...]
Is That Still Good? → Eels - Shootenanny
Posted in Is That Still Good?, Music, tagged Is That Still Good?, Music on April 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Music habits change in ways that are hard to track and harder to predict. Most people have only a handful of albums in heavy rotation at any given time. As weeks turn into months, some albums drop out and new albums come in. And while some albums are boon companions, most music lovers have a [...]
Happy Birthday, The Pope!
Posted in Miscellany, Religion, tagged Five Stars, flights of fancy, il Papa, travel on April 16, 2008 | No Comments »
That’s right: Pope Benedict XVI, nee Ratzinger, turns 81 today. Have a good one, dude. Someday when I rule the world you will have a show about your birthday, such as “My Super Sweet (Benedict the) Sixteenth.”
In other papal news, yesterday driving home from work I was listening to news radio, hoping they would explain [...]
An Advertisement
Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2008 | No Comments »
I didn’t want to have advertising on this site - unless, of course, it’s for a product I can truly and fully endorse. Luckly, I have no reservations about advertising Marshall Dillo here, up for auction at eBay. With a “Buy Now” set at $149.99, it would be a bargain at twice the price.
In case [...]
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