I just thought I'd do a little lunchblogging to let folks know what's going on with the blog right now.
I am writing on deadline to finish a major book project, and it's spilling over my work time and into my free time, so for the next couple of weeks blogging is likely to be lighter than it has been of late.
I'll still put up some things when I can get a few free minutes, but the more sustained, longer posts will likely have to wait until the book manuscript is done.
A particularly frustrating thing is that this weekend I typed out my review of the series finale of Galactica, and just as I was proofing it and about to put it up, it vanished entirely–and irretrievably–leaving me with only a small portion of the beginning of it.
The good news, though, is that I just have to re-type it when I can get the time. I've already processed my thinking on the subject, and the re-written version is likely to be better than the original draft, anyway.
So . . . that's coming.
Whenever I’m working on a long post I always just copy the whole thing to the clipboard periodically, just in case.
NOOOO! not the BSG review! Gosh darn it why did the computer gods have to take that one of all the possible document sacrifice tributes they could have extracted, why!?!?
Clearly, it’s part of The Plan.
Working on the revised “Mass Confusion” ?
Not yet. I start primary work on that next month.
The current book is a collection of The Fathers Know Best, with lots of never-before-seen bonus materials I’m working on now.
Jimmy;
Do you have input on cover artwork? The working title begs to have a retro 50’s-60’s TV style.
BTW on the “Mass Confusion” update, is it justified at this time and not a year or so after the English Missal release and all of the locals have “played” with it for a while. Based on some of the comments I’ve heard, it seems there will be a lot of confusion and outright contempt for the changes. Or perhaps it just takes a year or so to get the book out and you’ll have plenty of time to incorporate the latest liturgical abuses?
If I could make one suggestion on the content, I would strongly encourage more material on musical abuses. Please include what the Church teaches is musically authentic Catholic and encourages for Mass (Tra le Sollecitudini) and to what limit can that envelope be pushed before it becomes an “abuse”. While you had some material on pages 182-184, the musical instruments and “songs” (chant is usually written in most Vatican documents) sets the “mood” and liturgical background for the entire Mass.
I wonder if I can put in a request for your blogging resumption, when that comes.
That would be this. Can you perhaps summarize the differences that separate the Orthodox Church from we Roman Catholics? I know a few of them, but it’s sort of a confusing topic. I was recently listening to the excellent Twelve Byzantine Emperors podcast, and the author seemed to sort of assume that the listeners would be more or less familiar with the details of the schism. I am not that familiar with it. I did a little net research on it, but it’s an interesting topic and I’d like to read the commends of the more knowledgeable Apologist here.
The Devil and Jesus decide that they are going to have a computer-programming contest. God counts down. . . 3, 2, 1, Go! and they begin typing and programming furiously. After a while, a tremendous lightning flash and thunder erupt and the power goes off and the contest is stopped.
After power is restored, God asks to see what the Devil has programmed and the Devil responds, “C’mon God, the power went out we lost everything.” God walks over to Jesus’ computer and asks to see what he has done and Jesus hits a key and glorious graphics scroll across the screen and a multimedia routine kicks in and the Devil just looks on dumbfounded. He asks how could that be, the power went off.
God replied, “Come on Devil, everyone knows that Jesus saves!”