October 31st, 2007
In honor of All Hollow’s Eve, here’s one of those wonderful YouTube clips devised by some cracked savant with too much time on his or her hands. It’s a spoof movie trailer that re-imagines Kubrick’s the Shining as a cuddly, warm-hearted family movie.
Thanks to Angelo Matera, edit0r-in-chief at Godspy.com, for putting me on to [...]
October 1st, 2007
Stephen King (who else?) has a wonderful (and wonderfully depressing) article in the Sunday New York Times online about the current state of short story writing and publishing in America.
Here’s a morsel to whet your appetite, commenting on the fact that mags and journals that publish short fiction are few and far between, and tend [...]
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Strive to live content in the midst of those things that cause your discontent. Free your mind from all that troubles you, God will take care of things. You will be unable to make haste in this [choice] without, so to speak, grieving the heart of God, because he sees that you do not honor him sufficiently with holy trust. Trust in him, I beg you, and you will have the fulfillment of what your heart desires.
— St. Vincent de Paul