A nod to Kierkegaard and Walker Percy: existentialist tomfoolery, political satire, literary homage, word mongering, a year-round summer reading club, Dylanesque music bits, apocalyptic marianism, poetry, fiction, meta-porn, a prisoner work-release program.
Søren Kierkegaard
Walker Percy
Bob Dylan
Literature & History
Letters from an American
Beau of the Fifth Column
This American Life
The Writer’s Almanac
San Diego Reader
The Stranger
The Inlander
Adoremus
Charlotte was Both
The Onion
From Empty Hands
Ellen Finnigan
America
Commonweal
First Things
National Review
The New Republic
All Manner of Thing
Gerasene Writers Conference
Scrutinies
DarwinCatholic
Catholic and Enjoying It
Bad Catholic
Universalis
Is My Phylactery Showing?
Quotidian Quintilian
En pocas palabras
William Wilson, Guitarist Extraordinaire
Signposts in a Strange Land
Ben Hatke
Daniel Mitsui
Dappled Things
The Fine Delight
Gene Luen Yang
Wiseblood Books
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Darwinian jackpot!!!
As nice as this picture is, though, the gold standard for bad-Catholic/good-writer/prolific-paterfamilias portraits has got to be Evelyn Waugh and his brood in 1959:
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw13460/Evelyn-Waugh-with-his-family?LinkID=mp11684&role=sit&rNo=1
See how surly, hostile, even THUGGISH they all look! Can’t you imagine Evelyn siccing Meg and Septimus on a poacher? And Auberon’s practically a droog in tweed.
I find that this Waugh portrait pairs surprisingly well with this little ditty by Avenged Sevenfold:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OZs7IoWTvc
That’s not to take anything away from your picture. It is really good, too.
Good song. Never seen that picture before. Thanks. Love Waugh, esp. Brideshead and Crouchback.
We aim to please!
My kid brother’s in the Army and introduced me to the song; Avenged Sevenfold are apparently a major purveyor of the ‘Joe jams’ that blare while people are working out, doing maintenance on weapons, etc.
One wonders what Ryder or (especially) Crouchback would make of ‘Welcome to the Family’!
That’s a great great photo.
We aim to please!
I’d say that that Waugh photo would make a good basis for an Edward Gorey picture, but it practically is one already.
I like the idea of taking a break from the panic attack. Panicking is hard work.
The trick is to do like Tom Sawyer with the fence: Instead of doing the panicking yourself, outsource and monetize it. E.g., Korrektiv could run alarming ads about the need to stockpile gold (or electric generators, copies of ‘House of Words’, water purification tablets, whatever). People panic, people click. Sow the wind of panic; reap the whirlwind of skrilla. All without breaking a sweat.