Unexpected Poundland in Twin Peaks.
Twin Peaks: Pilot (1990) dir. David Lynch
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It turns out I haven’t got over my “Sherilyn Fenn smoking in Twin Peaks” thing, either.
Finished #reading: English Spirituality by Martin Thornton.
Not a book whose prose sings off the page (though with some happy moments, such as the final sentence of this), but worth the effort of reading. Thornton presents a convincing case for the existence of a distinct tradition of “English spirituality”, whose twin peaks lie in the fourteenth century of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, and the seventeenth century of the Caroline Divines.
What will most stay with me from this book? Probably Thornton’s pugnacious insistence on “the threefold Rule” of Eucharist, Daily Office and personal devotion as the fundamental model for all Christian spirituality - with the Office of greater importance than private prayer.
It’s also interesting that Thornton regards the most important element of personal devotion as “habitual recollection” and “homely dalliance” (to use Margery Kempe’s delightful phrase for free colloquy with Christ throughout the day) rather than formal systems of prayer. It’s also made me want to return to his book Christian Proficiency (with its fabulously ugly cover) to get more guidance on what all this means in practice.
Currently #reading: Social Psychology by Eliot R. Smith and Diane M. Mackie.
Old picture of Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott that tumblr needs to see (x)
Evansville Press, Indiana, February 5, 1912
it’s a leap yeap
My nightmare: making a typo that people are still talking about over a century later
Happy leap yeap!
The typo heard round the world
yesterday, tumblr totally deleted the account of a prominent trans girl on this website because she was posting safe for work transition timeline photos. this is supposedly "the queerest place on the internet" but i haven't seen anybody but trans girls talking about this. why does nobody else give a fuck?
wtf is going on with Tumblr at the moment? They seem determined to burn it all down to the ground
Hotel Annabella,
Balatonfüred, 1970. From the
Budapest Municipal Photography Company
archive.