An Ordinary Tep

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." One of my favorite sayings.

It's actually insane how the counter culture shifted from Reddit atheism to Christian nationalism in just a decade

Here’s a fantastic church renovation St. John the Baptist parish in Minnesota was built in 1984 and renovated in 2025 TRIGGER WARNING: The original is REALLY bad.

This is noticed by few people, but Attack of the Clones literally explains why Dexter's Diner looks like that. The establishing shot of the diner and surrounding neighborhood includes visual details that imply a history for the neighborhood that mirrors the cultural developments that led to that architectural style in our own world. These kinds of Streamline Moderne diners drew inspiration from things like trains and ships and cars, things that were sleek and fast and aerodynamically rounded. This visual inspiration extended to the interiors, which is where you get the long horizontal layouts with booth seating opposite counter seats directly adjoining an open kitchen. These all evoked the interior design of things like railroad dining cars. In fact, the term "diner" itself was originally applied to these railroad dining cars. That's where the term comes from in this context. Some of the earliest examples of these kinds of "diners," in fact, were simply former railroad dining cars that had been detached and turned into stationary restaurants. As I noted in the quoted post, the very first train that shoots past in the establishing shot has the same color scheme and red "fins" as Dex's Diner. Lucas obviously knew all about this history and actually went out of his way to justify the existence of Dex's Diner in this environment. It's actually really cool and fascinating how he did this. It's one of those details that's there specifically for architectural history nerds. But of course, all this flew over the heads of the people most likely to complain and call Lucas a moron.

サグラダ・ファミリアの完成式典、光り輝く床に照らされた指揮者が演奏の終わりを告げるとともに、空中にドローンでドヤ顔のガウディが映し出され大量の花火が飛び交うところでバカ笑った

Talking about Mishima being gay is old hat. Man was the most flaming person who ever lived. We need to start talking about Wittgenstein, the most inflexible, austere, unflamboyant man who ever lived, being kind of gay with it

Most Catholics are unaware that for centuries before the Novus Ordo was instituted, Mass ended with a reading of the Prologue of Saint John. The reason for this particular passage from the Gospels is its cosmic significance, which was deemed extremely suitable for the nature of the Mass until the 1960 when the priority became to emphasise the Mass as a meeting of the Christian community rather than the sacrifice of Christ on the altar.

the stripper scene from “breakfast at tiffany’s” (1961)

A parish that does "Table of Plenty", "One Bread One Body", "I Am the Bread of Life" for Corpus Christi completely misses the point. It's not about the Church, as Christ's body, sharing a meal. Corpus Christi is about the worship of the Blessed Sacrament as Christ's Real Presence

I legitimately don't understand why Joan of Arc was canonized.

Watched Damn Yankees the other day and I think this is the craziest move I’ve ever seen anyone hit