This is also my Midwestern Lutheran parents. Pretty sure my mom suspected Obama to be the antichrist when he first got elected. Not based on his policies or anything, just because she was worried about his popularity.
Sitting in my local NoVa bar listening to the evangelicals discuss the end times and how the Antichrist is supposed to be a really really smart guy and that Trump can’t possibly be it because of that
November 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This is also my Midwestern Lutheran parents. Pretty sure my mom suspected Obama to be the antichrist when he first got elected. Not based on his policies or anything, just because she was worried about his popularity.
Scrolling through November 1863 newspapers looking at reactions to Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation and what’s notable is how whiny the conservative Dem papers are about how Thanksgiving proclamations should be the state prerogative and not the federal government’s
plus ça change, I guess
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Scrolling through November 1863 newspapers looking at reactions to Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation and what’s notable is how whiny the conservative Dem papers are about how Thanksgiving proclamations should be the state prerogative and not the federal government’s
The reveal in here of her obsessively planning details for even small gatherings is extremely relatable. No other way to enjoy having friends over for a meal.
The author Joan Didion embraced Thanksgiving. And she staged it the same way she conjured her essays, novels, screenplays and memoirs, with an almost military mustering of planning and ambition.
November 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
My spreadsheets for managing big cooking/hosting events are immaculate
Much like real Bushido, poster's bushido is a post facto romanticization of an earlier era of uncontrolled conflict, constructed by the inhabitants of a more centralized system to justify their own pretensions.
poster's bushido logically implies the existence of historical european posting arts
November 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Much like real Bushido, poster's bushido is a post facto romanticization of an earlier era of uncontrolled conflict, constructed by the inhabitants of a more centralized system to justify their own pretensions.
You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today because there is a wizard in a high tower and he's zapping you with one of his spells to drain you of all your vigor. You are in a weakened state. You couldn't possibly make a movie in this condition.
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today because there is a wizard in a high tower and he's zapping you with one of his spells to drain you of all your vigor. You are in a weakened state. You couldn't possibly make a movie in this condition.
“It’s not that I’m for austerity, it’s just that I’m against bailing out AI, crypto, private assets/university endowments, and I’m fine with canceled Thanksgiving flights and missed paychecks as long as Republicans take the blame for it.”
The main problem with Bluesky is that some of you aren't posting enough Chicago content. This is the premiere Chicago-centered social website, please act accordingly.
November 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The main problem with Bluesky is that some of you aren't posting enough Chicago content. This is the premiere Chicago-centered social website, please act accordingly.
“Mankind’s self-destruction is the only foreseeable end to the world, left to itself, and the only end it deserves, insofar as it prefers to hoard what is its own (that is, power, mammon) rather than to gather with Christ. It has already decided its own fate.”
- all from Balthasar, Theo-Drama vol 4
November 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
“Mankind’s self-destruction is the only foreseeable end to the world, left to itself, and the only end it deserves, insofar as it prefers to hoard what is its own (that is, power, mammon) rather than to gather with Christ. It has already decided its own fate.”