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Defending the 12th century since the 14th; blogging since the 21st. Catholicism, Conservatism, the Middle Ages, Opera, and Historical and Literary Objets d'Art blogged by a suburban dad who teaches law and writes stuff. "Very fun." -- J. Bottum, Editor, FIRST THINGS "Too modest" -- Elinor Dashwood "Perhaps the wisest man on the Web" -- Henry Dieterich "Hat tip: me (but really Cacciaguida)" -- Diana Feygin, Editor, THE YALE FREE PRESS "You are my sire. You give me confidence to speak. You raise my heart so high that I am no more I." -- Dante "Fabulous!"-- Warlock D.J. Prod of Didsbury Who was Cacciaguida? See Dante's PARADISO, Cantos XV, XVI, & XVII. E-mail me Site Feed Syndicate this site  MilitaryHonors.com LINKS: Axis of Eve: The Cigarette Smoking Blog, by Helen E-Pression, by Zorak Eli's Coffer, by TKB Eve Tushnet Iqra'i, by Kate et al. MarriageDebate.com Mommentary, by Elinor The Old Oligarch Otto-da-Fe The Rat The Reactionary Epicurean The Yale Free Press: Vast. Right. Winged. Crusaders' Corner: Blackfive Buscaraons Catholics in the Military Lepanto Group Long War Journal, by Bill Roggio Michael Yon Small Wars Journal Blog Stop the Islamization of Europe Catholic blogs: A (Little) Light from the East Against the Grain The Anchoress Cnytr, by Lauren B. The Curt Jester Dawn Patrol Dyspeptic Mutterings Erik's Rants & Recipes Fiat Lux! Five Feet of Fury, by Kathy Shaidle Holy Smoke, by Damian Thompson Jelly-Pinched Theatre Laodicea (straight from Scotland!) Mark Shea Patum Peperinum Pertinaceous Papist Philokalia Republic A Plumbline in the Wind The Truth Will Make You Free (Fr. Bob Connor) What Does That Prayer Really Say? by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf Yurodivi(Catholicism, opera...) Law blogs: How Appealing Lex Communis Mirror of Justice Ninomania Conservative blogs: Belmont Club Desperate Irish Housewife Eschatological Psychosis Never Yet Melted Power Line WorldwideStandard Medievalist blogs: Another Boring Academic Has a Blog? Cranky Professor LiveJournal Medieval Studies Rogueclassicism The Few, the Proud, the On-Line: From the Halls to the Shores, by Mike the Marine Morristown, by Jonathan Lee One Marine's View Opera and other arts blogs: About Last Night Box Five Prima la musica, poi le parole OTHER SITES, MOSTLY NON-BLOGS: Catholicism: Catholic World News Eastern Ortodoxy Compared Hebrew Catholics InsideCatholic New Advent (includes old Catholic Encyclopedia) Opus Dei Remnant of Israel SSPX suxx Conservatism: Claremont Institute National Review RealClearPolitics.com The Weekly Standard Law: Federalist Society Founders' Constitution JURIST Nat'l Lawyers Ass'n (alternative to ABA) Overlawyered.com Supreme Court decisions The Middle Ages: Divina Commedia Lectura Dantis Medieval Academy of America Medievalist Weblogs ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies Pontifical Inst. of Mvl. Studies, U. of Toronto Yale Medieval Studies Department Opera: Bayreuth Festival The Met Met archives New York City Opera OperaCast: b'casts on the Net The Opera Critic Opera-L archives Opera magazine, a.k.a. "English Opera" Opera News Special interest: Courage Dreadnought The Gay Priest Problem, by Fr. Paul Shaughnessy, USN NARTH Sed Contra, by David Morrison "Less easily classified": Arts & Letters Daily Blondie.net Rolling Stone article on Blondie The Historical Society Manolo for the Men MercatorNet Society for Military History Mugglenet The Leaky Cauldron The Snitch 
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Friday, June 18, 2010
Developments on this blog Hello! The fact that I haven't posted in a while does not mean this blog is going out of service. When you have a blog that started in 2002 -- back when people still said "A blog? What's that?" -- you don't pull the plug on it lightly. And I really have no reason to pull the plug on it at all. So why the light posting? Basically, it's that I've been doing a lot of writing under other names in other fora. The 'net has expanded so as to create such opportunities. Though I started this blog to be about pretty much everything I'm interested in, I will probably refocus it on its core competencies, which I see as being Catholicism (including Catholic history and current Church matters), and Medieval Studies. I am also considering bringing on co-bloggers: both fictional (like me) and real. I've been in conversation with a fictional character inspired by Alberich in Act II of Wagner's SIEGFRIED, called Anders Alsdummeriesen. He's not the most soothing individual, but I think you'll be amused by his candor and wry humor. As for the realies -- it's hard to get them to work with you when you're fictional, but there are some possibilities. Another unresolved issue: physical layout. At the beginning, it was my greatest pride that on arriving at this blog, readers would notice that it bore a physical resemblance to Eve Tushnet's. I'm still proud of that, and for that reason, I may not change it at all. Otoh, Blogger is making template-fussing easier these days, so who knows. Many of you may have fallen out of the habit of checking this blog "manually," but I take it the technology of the blogosphere has developed since I founded it -- RSS feeds, Google Reader, etc. -- so I may hope that the mere fact that I've posted something will alert some of you to the fact that I've posted something. If so, then do comment. Knowing you're out there will make a difference in how much time I, Anders, and andere Leute will put into it. |