“Also, Pornography could easily go head to head with Disintegration in a battle over best The Cure album”
My Two Faves:
This is the opening track for The Cure’s 1982 album Pornography, and the first line is, “It doesn’t matter if we all die.”
My dad used to jokingly say that to my mom whenever they were fighting in front of us kids as a way to end the argument. She’d roll her eyes and maybe give him a playful smack or something, but I never knew what it meant. When I learned the context, probably late in high school, I remember being really discomfited by…
Goths refer to it as the “evil Daystar”
Remember, ladies, only guys can do timeless comedy that everyone thinks is funny.
If we’d had “Agnes”, we wouldn’t have had the movie spoofs (below: Carol as Joan Crawford as Mildred, in “Mildred Fierce”)
Women. Get it in writing.
Don’t need sunscreen if you never go into the sun.
The Pope best learn his history...
So true about the Jesuits. I went for years to a Jesuit-run parish in Michigan and they seriously did not give a fuck about whatever the hierarchy was saying. The oldest priest would routinely recite modern poetry for his homily and talk about social justice issues. This was in Ann Arbor, so they were obviously…
I was glad Pope Francis was chosen after Benedict, and he has been a world leader in talking about income inequality, climate change, etc. However, he lost my respect when he still pushes anti-birth control messages. It just shows, as this article also points out, the Church is not changing with the times.
This makes me very happy that my nephew had a much different experience. I suspect the fact that he and my family is in the progressive-land of Vermont has a lot to do with this. When he was 16 he came out to us as gay. My sister, his mother, and I gave a shrug and said “we love you, do your homework.” Our mother and…
I do love Fr. James Martin! I still disagree with him about a lot (like, so much), but he seems to genuinely put love and compassion for his fellow man above most of the dogma.
Aww, Bobby! I never knew you had to grow up in that kind of environment. FWIW, as far as I can tell, any and all efforts to suppress your badass individuality have failed miserably. <3
I’m not surprised that you would hear that at St. Patrick’s — Cardinal Dolan is a calculating opportunist playing at progressiveness in Manhattan while supporting the religion’s more conservative elements.
Sure, he’s met the basic level of respect for gay people, literally the least someone can do. But I’ve seen this painted as him being cool with the “LGBT+ community” elsewhere, and that’s just patently false. He still thinks that trans folks are against his god’s will, abominations like nuclear weapons. So he can kiss…