Brother Roger, founder of the ecumenical Taize’ community, was murdered Tuesday during a vespers service by a woman who is probably mentally disturbed. There’s not a lot of information, but it was a shocking, tragic end to a life of prayer and meditation and peace. This is a terrible loss to Christians everywhere, as Brother Roger was working to reconcile different streams of Christianity and lend support to the disenfranchised. The Taize’ community, founded in 1940 by Brother Roger when he was 25, became a safe haven for political refugees and people of all faiths, among them Jews fleeing the…
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Flickr and Yahoo, those two cahootsers, are integrating even more by making it possible to sign in to Flickr using a Yahoo ID. This is supposed to make it easier to use and easier to invite people, and they’ve made the sign-up process even easier. So hey Timmy! Why don’t you sign up for Flickr and start putting some family photos up? How about everybody else in our far-flung family? I’ve been having a lot of fun with it lately and still have plenty of photos that I want to highlight there. I’m starting to join more group pools and…
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Priest’s Pooch Welcomes N.D. Parishioners – Yahoo! News AAAAAH! I’ve been talking about starting a dogwalking club at Holy Moly. These guys get national PRESS because their priest brings his dog to Mass. Oh, man. We gotta get us some Episcopawlians.
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Seen on my way in to work the other day: a woman not just putting on makeup while waiting at a red light, but using an eyelash curler. If you’ve never seen or used one, it’s an instrument of torture marketed as a beauty aid. It has a scissors-like thing that squeezes two pads together; you position your lashes between the pads, give a squeeze, and presto! Curly eyelashes. We had one for years in the downstairs bathroom at my mom’s house; I fooled around with it a few times but concluded that it made my already fairly curly but…
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Rev. Paul Landahl, bishop of the Metropolitan Chicago Synod, said he was disappointed with the decision to maintain the policy of ordaining only those gays and lesbians who remain chaste, but grateful the assembly did not make the policy more restrictive. “We welcome gays and lesbians, but only so far,” he said. “So if you feel the gift of the spirit and the call to ministry, well, you’re going to have to sit on that because our welcome doesn’t include that. And that to me is offensive.” Damn. That’s disappointing. Very sorry to see how close the vote was, too.
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This image was sent from Flickr as a blog entry, email or cameraphone image. Via: Flickr Title: Bus crack By: GinnyRED57 Moblog: a dry crack is a happy crack! Originally uploaded: 13 Aug ’05, 12.18am PST
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Near-Arctic Readiness Force of the Domination of Eiler I see that the Dominator has added to the Dominion of Eiler, and that He has graciously included a photo credit. Click on the link, scroll all the way down, and there’s the NARF-Cycle in the winter picture wot I took last year. There it is parked in all its arctic glory on the pile of snow plowed up in front of Holy Moly’s handicapped parking sign. The Dominator bypasses man’s restrictions by parking anywhere He damn well pleases. Coincidentally, the Dominator is also the Ineffable Bass. (stats pages is fun reading…
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Chicago Tribune | Chicago, other cities told attack possible around Sept. 11 Oh, goodie. They’re not saying it’s a very credible threat or that the source is reliable, but oh goodie. Supposedly, the terrorists would use hijacked fuel trucks, something counterterrorism experts have been concerned about for years. Gas is already more expensive in the Chicago area than in the rest of the country (for reasons that remain obscure) but imagine how prices will climb if fuel trucks start exploding.
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Okay, I have no idea why the Halloween candy bowl came out this week at work. My TL keeps bringing in candy and refilling it, but most of the time it contains the dregs of the candy world: green and blue Jolly Rangers. An online acquaintance (hi, Leibniz!) complains of a similar candy bowl at his coordinates in space/time/ectoplasm, except that his dregs consist of root beer barrels in addition to Jolly Ranchers. As to why this stuff is appearing, more than 2 months in advance, I really can’t tell you, but it’s not doing me any good. It’s right…
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President George Bush has said he “sympathised” with the mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq but refused to heed her call to pull out the troops. Speaking from his Texas ranch where Cindy Sheehan has been holding a roadside protest, Mr Bush said withdrawing would be a “mistake”. Later in the story, Bush is quoted as saying he “thought long and hard about her position.” There you have it: this President is screwing us all over. Hur, hurh, hurrrr. Seriously, though, it disgusts me that he won’t meet with her and explain his “rationale” – the REAL one…