Category Archives: Bible

Fake Jan!

Posted on December 29, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

You may not know this, but January 2nd is, to some online hipsters that I do not count myself among, sometimes called “Fake Jan” Day. Jan 2. Get it? The whole thing involves the Brady Bunch Variety Hour in some … Continue reading →

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Protected: Good and faithful servant

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

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Flavinus, Easter, and Power

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

A note to my Sewanee-in-England students in Hexham, where we are all exhausted after climbing around Housesteads fort. Alas, Hexham Abbey opens at 9:30 AM but we must be on the road by 9. What I had wanted to show … Continue reading →

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The Backstory to the SAS Reredos

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

Earlier this year, I wondered about the reredos in the St. Andrew’s-Sewanee school chapel, discovering that it was a copy of the Demidoff Altarpiece, now in National Gallery, London, but originally made by Carlo Crivelli for the church of San Domenico in … Continue reading →

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Protected: Telly Savalas’ cuirass

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

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Scorsese on Bowie as Pilate

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

Excerpt from interview with Martin Scorsese, from Dylan Jones, David Bowie: A Life I’m sitting in my director’s chair and there are some chairs behind me and suddenly I feel a tap on my shoulder and I turn around and there I … Continue reading →

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Sewanee Memoire: Projections for the Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation

Posted on March 11, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

Below are remarks I gave for a forum organized by Prof. Woody Register and the Sewanee Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation on about Art, Commemoration, and Sewanee’s Campus, held at Otey Parish on February 19, 2017. Also on the panel … Continue reading →

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The Graveyard on Devil Step Island

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Uncomely and Broken

My friend Adam and I had been planning to take his boat out on to Tims Ford Lake, and this Sunday seemed like the last possible day to do it until springtime. It was an unseasonably warm November day. Why … Continue reading →

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Post in which social media doesn’t suck

Posted on November 4, 2017 by Uncomely and Broken

So, I’m in Milwaukee for the Film & History conference where I gave a talk on Nina Paley’s film, Sita Sings the Blues and her ongoing Seder-Masochism project. Vince Tomasso, one of the other attendees, has been tweeting the conference, … Continue reading →

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Protected: But Let Judgment Run Down As Waters

Posted on September 20, 2017 by Uncomely and Broken

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