Patron saint of procrastinators, and one who generally hurries things along.
The story of Expeditus is extraordinarily confused, and ends with the Catholic church basically admitting that this guy never lived. He starts showing up in martyrologies–big lists of martyrs–in the eighteenth century in Italy, well before 1781. Unfortunately what the martyrology said was that he [...]
Archive for May, 2008
St. Expeditus
Posted in Obscure Saint Blogging, Religion, tagged hackers, historical confusion, martyrs, nerds, procrastination makes it happen, saints on May 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Fun with Firefox
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2008 | No Comments »
So Firefox has a google search toolbar which shows up by default. This toolbar has a “suggest” feature, which tries to complete your query by suggesting common search phrases. This also allows you to see what some of the most common google searches are.
Type “How” and the toolbar suggests “How to tie a tie.” Something [...]
St. Christina the Astonishing
Posted in Obscure Saint Blogging, Religion, tagged madman, madwomen, maidens, miracles, mystics, purgatory on May 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Astonishing. Astonishing!
Also known as Christina Mirabilis, which is fancy Latin, she was born in the town of Saint-Trond in 1150 CE, in the diocese of Liege, in Belgium because apparently if a saint is going to appear in the blog on Obscure Saint Friday, they must be Belgian.
She, along with her two sisters, were orphaned [...]
St. Simeon, fool-for-Christ
Posted in Obscure Saint Blogging, Religion, tagged ascetics, madmen, the desert, Eastern Orthodox, fools for christ on May 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I think Simeon’s on the left.
I have a serious weakness for the ascetic saints, probably because I think they mine the depths of insanity much more than any others. I mean, helping the poor and all that is just what Christians are supposed to do, right? But starving yourself in the desert while living in [...]
Politics ARRGGHH
Posted in Politics, tagged Media, Obama, Politics, Why god why on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ll get back to folk music soon, but I want to comment on a trend I’m seeing in the sleazier attacks on Obama. I was watching CNN today, listening to whoever was on argue about whether Obama agreed with his crazy pastor or not. The answer to that question should not be hard to figure [...]
But does it have widgets?
Posted in Miscellany, Sex, tagged abstinence, bad jokes, bafflement, maidens, marriage, One Star on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
The Abstinence Clearinghouse-which I guess is like Publisher’s Clearinghouse, but if you win instead of a million bucks you get no sex?-recently launched a blog, which I of course checked out since I love kitsch. Mostly it’s full of irritating news and eye-rolling slogans (”Free love is pretty expensive!”) but one post in particular actually [...]
Brian Wilson - Surf’s Up
Posted in Music, tagged Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Surf's Up on May 11, 2008 | No Comments »
In 1966, the Beach Boys put out Pet Sounds. The album was written by Brian Wilson, and was a major leap over previous Beach Boys songs. Where their previous recordings were catchy teenage surf rock, Pet Sounds was a melancholy mission statement. The arrangements were elaborate and the melodies were powerful. Although the Beatles fashioned [...]
St. Drogo
Posted in Obscure Saint Blogging, Religion, tagged anchorites, bilocate, coffee, hermits, orphans, patron saints, penitence, shepherds on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »
St. Drogo was born in Sebourg, France, in 1105 CE, though his mother died in childbirth. His father also died at some point, though sources seem to disagree on whether it was before he was born, or when he was a teenager. At any rate, he was orphaned, and although he was nobility, he gave [...]
Old Man Luedecke - Hinterland
Posted in Music, tagged banjo, folk music, four stars, hinterland, Old Man Luedecke, pseudo-traditional music, review on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
I hear Old Man Luedecke has a new album out. I haven’t gotten my copy yet (it’s only available on the Canadian iTunes store - weird), so I thought I would review a previous album of his.
Hinterland is a nice album. That may sound like faint praise, and those who demand that their music be [...]
St. Dymphna
Posted in Obscure Saint Blogging, Religion, tagged Catholicism, Escaping the Pagans, incest, Irish saints, maidens, martyrs, medieval saints on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Dymphna was a young lady in Ireland sometimes during the 7th century CE. Her father was a pagan Irish chieftain Damon, and her mother was his beautiful Christian wife whose name has been lost. When Dymphna was about 14, her mother died. After searching all over Western Europe and not finding a woman as beautiful [...]
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