I got my first “fan” who was really just a pr0n account trolling for followers. Blocked and reported, as they say. That kind of garbage will bring the site down faster than anything else. Keep it out of Substack. And if you're engaging in this kind of behavior, you need to start praying that Jesus shows you a better way to use the gifts he gave you.
The past couple days, this scene just keeps playing in my head on a loop.
There seems to be an endless supply of Will Ropers in Conservative, Inc., these days.
This isn’t about JW—but Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Göransson might be one of the greatest director/composer duos, for my money, since Spielberg & Williams. I profiled them and their new project, SINNERS, for the LA Times.
You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.
In the final stages of a (currently very long) essay on Fr. Vincent McNabb O.P., a dominican friar and Catholic radical of the interwar period, deeply influential on Dorothy Day, Chesterton, Maritain and (I strongly suspect) J.R.R. Tolkien. McNabb’s activism was in part an extension of the Arts and Crafts movement’s political expression,…
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Thanks, Dan. Loved it! I can understand the connection between island/sea and the feel of the planet, perhaps stronger than us middle-of-a-continent dwellers. On the other hand, I get a lot of my intense feelings of planetness (and beyond) by going small rather than vast. I remember being a 16 year-old and standing under an elm and looking up at its zillions of leaves and feeling gobsmacked by the vastness of the planet. I'm still getting that dazzling experience of living on a planet from looking at the tiny: David Haskell's The Forest Unseen visits a tiny circle of land in a Tennessee forest, and does deep dives into what he sees throughout the year. That triggers it for me big time. Or Ed Jong's I Am Multitudes goes microscopic, and that too turns my head inside out sending me to planetary vastness.
