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by cbfrench 3y ago
Being a native East Tennessean, I’ve always had a slight preference for Cormac’s Appalachian novels, perhaps in part because the people (at least some of them…) and locations seemed familiar to me. What a loss. I was pleased to see that the
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by cbfrench 4y ago
The Bond drinking moment that has always gotten me is the scene in Goldfinger in which Goldfinger asks Bond, “The julep tart enough for you?” I can’t recall if that line is present in the novel—I suspect not, as Fleming would surely have
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by cbfrench 4y ago
At least a couple of distilleries I visited in KY recommended trying bourbon neat, with a drop or splash of water, and on the rocks. Each variant gives a slightly different expression of the spirit. So that’s at least an “official” warrant
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by cbfrench 4y ago
>the Middle Ages, which are held up as a nadir of history. Mostly as a result of Renaissance- and Enlightenment-era propagandizing. I think we’ve mostly moved beyond that reading of history, thankfully.
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by cbfrench 4y ago
We’re in the flight path, and I told my wife to go up to her office roof to see if she can see it, but she’s stuck in a meeting, and I’m too far north to catch a glimpse. I guess I’ll have to settle for spotting it on my ADS-B receiver, whi
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by cbfrench 4y ago
For those interested in learning more about forecasting and analysis, NWS Nashville puts together a great lineup of advanced Skywarn trainings every year. They conduct them online, so you don’t have to be local to participate. They offer sh
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by cbfrench 4y ago
Here is bit more information on the lovely custom of the “boy bishop,” which has made a return in some places, both Roman Catholic and Anglican: https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2022/12/the-feast-of-c... (Und
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by cbfrench 4y ago
Mike Tyson had a pretty good run of things, and you wanna know why? No Canada gooses in his weight class.
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by cbfrench 4y ago
>I also can't see any reason a conditional conferral of those sacraments should be a problem. Honestly, I do understand where Rome is coming from on this question. There is a sufficient diversity in Anglican sacramental theology reg
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by cbfrench 4y ago
Agreed! And mad respect for the Anabaptist tradition. The nonviolent witness of the peace churches has been a powerful spiritual and theological influence for me.
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by cbfrench 4y ago
The presumption of these questions is astonishing. You know nothing about me, and certainly not the extent to which I’ve “rationally questioned” my beliefs. (Of course, I recognize the laughably invidious premise of your question, which is
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by cbfrench 4y ago
For me, the primary obstacle to my joining the Ordinariate is the requirement of absolute (rather than conditional) ordinations and confirmations for people coming over from Anglicanism. To me, submitting to that would be an implicit admiss
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by cbfrench 4y ago
Of course, the real question is what status the 39 Articles have in Anglican theology. They’re not a confessional document in the same way as the confessions you find in Lutheran or Calvinist traditions. (That tends not to be the Anglican s
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by cbfrench 4y ago
For me, what’s it’s primarily “about,” of course, is the making present in an unbloodied manner the eternal and propitious Sacrifice of Christ, “proclaim[ing] the Lord’s death until he comes” (1 Cor 11:26). And in the Eucharist we receive t
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by cbfrench 4y ago
I’m an Anglican priest, and I can attest to this! We used to buy the Eucharistic hosts produced by the Institute for the Deaf at Sint-Michielsgestel in Holland (via our local church supplier). They were lovely. The priest’s hosts had a vari
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by cbfrench 4y ago
slaps forehead Why didn’t I think of that before?
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by cbfrench 4y ago
Substituting smoked salmon for lox seems fishy. A real caper, if you will.
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by cbfrench 4y ago
For a more authentic experience, you can breathe through a straw for the last 1k and put bags of ice on your hands and feet. ;)
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by cbfrench 4y ago
Is this irony? Post-irony? Post-post-irony? I feel like I’m either super old now, or something.
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by cbfrench 4y ago
But that’s not how we designate authors in the field. When you’re discussing the various literatures in English, nationality in the political sense is effectively meaningless. Robert Burns was born in Scotland after the Act of Union of 1707
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by cbfrench 4y ago
Oh, come on. No one considers Seamus Heaney a “British poet,” even though he was born in Northern Ireland. He’s Irish. I don’t think the Welsh or the Scots place much emphasis on being “British,” either. It’s a perfectly sensible designatio
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by cbfrench 4y ago
Primarily, to evade blackout restrictions on MLB games. I pay for an annual pass and am still blacked out from three regional teams, regardless of where they’re playing. (And I’m lucky: some parts of Iowa have six teams blacked out, which m
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by cbfrench 4y ago
This seems like a very Ted Gioia take. I remember over a decade ago one of my best grad-school friends, a fairly sophisticated student and connoisseur of rock, getting into an extended Facebook argument with Ted because he’d made an off-han
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by cbfrench 4y ago
> What does he listen to then? Is he passionate about music? Is he knowledgeable? Or does he just like music in general and listens to the radio and his Spotify library? I mean, Ted Gioia is probably the foremost jazz critic and historia
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by cbfrench 4y ago
Party like it’s 1899. (Whist is great btw.)
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by cbfrench 4y ago
I might give it another shot. There’s a bridge club in the area that might be worth looking into. And whist is great. I inflicted that on my friends at Scout camp one summer, and they ended up actually enjoying it. I need to refresh myself
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by cbfrench 4y ago
I was a weird kid and taught myself the rules to a ton of card games as a kid, including bridge. (Except I was an only child who lived out in the country and never really had anyone to play with. Again, weird kid.) The problem is that knowi
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by cbfrench 4y ago
Euchre is delightful. I now live in the Midwest, where seemingly everyone knows how to play, so it’s always easy to pull out a deck of cards when people come over. It moves fast and involves just enough strategy to maintain interest while a
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by cbfrench 4y ago
One of my goals since I was in college has been to own the OED. I finally have the bookshelf space and have saved up for it, so I think this is the year I achieve my personal pinnacle of literary nerd-dom! There’s nothing like a stroll thro
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by cbfrench 4y ago
I wish you all the best on the journey. It’s a hard-as-hell place to be in, but I’m glad you have someone who can balance things out. (I’m fortunate to have the same!) But it’s still a path you have to figure out on your own, and I’m glad y

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