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This is Us.
We're a nation of basement studios.
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Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, 2024
This was the end to a nearly flawless week split between Middletown and Brooklyn. Thursday night I left the Goldsmith Cinema humming all the different anthems permanently tattooed in my brain after a lifetime of watching MGM's iconic smash-up of fairy tales, Tin Pan Alley schmaltz and American Gothic nostalgia - "The Wizard of Oz". The difference ( Read more... ) -
Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Yesterday was a good day.
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Eighth Sunday After Pentecost, July 14, 2024
Today was another in a seemingly endless parade of hot, humid Sunday mornings with the Cross Team processing down the center aisle and up the altar steps with bare legs and track shoes visible beneath their vestments. Not only was it unbearably hot but the solution - a cadre of stand-up fans set next to certain strategic pews - likewise proved to ( Read more... ) -
Colin G. Campbell (1936-2024)
Just received word that my college president, or rather, the person who was president during my time at Wesleyan, has passed away at the ripe old age of 88. I think all of us "Campbell Kids" have secretly been aware that this day would arrive someday. It was just that in our mind's eye, Colin would forever be the thirty-three year-old wunderkind ( Read more... ) -
So Much for "A New Paradigm"
A year ago, at this time I was high on the possibilities of OnlyFans as a surrogate world of sex, sexuality and "parasocial relationships". It was, in fact, a kind of onanism which is itself my normal sex life but reinvigorated by a personal relationship with a "creator" who supplies a constant stream of on-demand content with themselves as the ( Read more... ) -
Racism
I'd like to say a few words about racism. As few words as possible, actually. It's not a pleasant subject. Indeed, I think I've spent the better part of a long life avoiding not just the experience of it where possible, but any deep understanding of it. I blame my parents. They left the segregated existence of their native small, southern, farming ( Read more... ) -
Breaking News: Operation a Success; Bing Begins "Long Recovery"
The two boys have done a magnificent job of keeping us informed. Father Crosby texted me with the details of a late breaking delay. Then, in the wee hours of the morning, The Mysterious Stranger sent out a blast mail confirming that the procedure began late in the afternoon on Friday and seemingly had only just been completed. Bing has a brand-new ( Read more... ) -
Breaking News: Bing Under the Knife Again
Prayers Up for Bing who is quite possibly undergoing open-heart surgery as I write this. It would be his second time at the rodeo in nearly 15 years. Mysterious Stranger sent a blast mail Tuesday on behalf of the family, outlining the cascading events leading up to it. An infection that had been misdiagnosed as "double pneumonia" was, in fact, ( Read more... ) -
Third Sunday of Lent, 2024: The Return of "Hometown Boy"
They were still singing the opening hymn when I arrived for church last Sunday. People were still standing and it made my march toward the second row a little less conspicuous than it might have been a few moments later. As it was, I was too late to find my usual seat - usual as far the last month or two are concerned - and I had to occupy the ( Read more... )