Ryan Shinkel

Comms. @MadisonProgram, "Madison's Notes" producer & host. MI Man, writer, editor. Views my own.

Listen, there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go.

[James Madison Program @MadisonProgram]

Madison's Notes is out with a new episode: "A Divine Comedy."

Host Ryan Shinkel (@RyanShinkel) interviewed Rob Long (@rcbl), the TV writer & producer turned divinity student & future Episcopal priest, to talk about all things Hollywood & holiness.

They discuss the sitcom Cheers, the writer's room, whether art can survive AI, Jerusalem pilgrimages, the nature of humor, a sermon's proper length, if Jesus ever laughed, along with Dick Van Dyke & Michaelangelo, Aristotle & Moliere, P.G. Wodehouse & P.J. O'Rourke, plus much more.

Please enjoy: https://t.co/C4RNqfpYnM

[James Diddams @JamesDiddams]

Hello Twitter friends. I lost my old account to a hacker. Please follow this one instead 🙏

[Frank Yan @FrankYan2]

Tarantino should help Costner to get Horizon: An American Saga released

[Michigan Enjoyer @mich_enjoyer]

We Found the Best Mackinac Island Fudge Shop @bobby_on_mars
https://t.co/Mu14Y9z3J4

[Method and Madness @madmethodpod]

Out of the archives of The Black Mask—the magazine that launched the careers of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler—comes a tale by Harold Ward, an unsung hero paid pennies by the word. Link to the bot-free audio recording below.

[The New Atlantis @tnajournal]

"To seek the pleasures and comforts that attend human connection ... in the manufactured simulacra of a human mind is grotesquely disordered."

But Pope Leo offers only the most timid correction against this. https://t.co/6SILOYe9w2

[Method and Madness @madmethodpod]

Icymi, Audrey Lee (@tinndfishmonger) joined me to talk about things the European mind cannot comprehend about America, the legacy of John Williams' STONER, and her wonderful new short story collection UTTER GOODNESS, out now on @farthestheaven. Link in comment.

[Pottersville P.D. @Love_Thy_Hood]

The most unfortunate aspect of the computerized version of this amusing compulsion is that it robs the man of most of its social dimension.

[Ryan Shinkel @RyanShinkel]

A teacher: I lost all inner peace. My soul is a sunless dreg. I wake up to an equation whose answer is I'm damned. I'm condemned to use my enemies tools to defeat him. What do I sacrifice? Everything!

A cashier: sir, I know detecting AI writing is hard...but this is a Wendy's.

[Michigan Enjoyer @mich_enjoyer]

The Underwater Mountain Hidden in Lake Superior @LMoorehouse04
https://t.co/cjQkTo95gD

[The Lamp @thelampmagazine]

Issue 35 is live on our website!

[Alan Cornett @alancornett]

A nice piece by @owroot on Russell Kirk’s Piety Hill. @KirkCenter

[The New Atlantis @tnajournal]

Pope Leo’s new encyclical offers wisdom about what we don’t want AI to be.

But, like many of us, he is still frustratingly vague about what AI actually is.

Link below...

[Ryan Shinkel @RyanShinkel]

@percy_gryce @paul_jkrause Alasdair MacIntyre, Saul Kripke. It seems like they are the last of a generation that could get away with it.

[Montana Classical College @MTClassical]

Epic is the broadest and deepest of the genres; it contains within it comedy, tragedy, and lyric--whereas none of these could hope to contain epic within themselves.

[Ryan Shinkel @RyanShinkel]

Orestes recounting to his sister the advice of their slain father, Agamemnon:

[O.W. Root @owroot]

My dad used to use the term “useless anxiety” to describe a lot of worry. It was annoying when we were younger because it felt like he described too much that way, but the older I get I think he was right.

[James Madison Program @MadisonProgram]

The conversation is also available on YouTube (https://t.co/90RpPV4tKp).

[James Madison Program @MadisonProgram]

And the transcript has been published on Madison's Footnotes (https://t.co/vAMrkJ3Sef).

[Method and Madness @madmethodpod]

Icymi, Jacob Everett (@blauer_geist) of
@APCON_MAG joined me to riotously revel in the hot-blooded hysterics and primal paranoia of James Ellroy's AMERICAN TABLOID, a great American novel if there ever was one. Here’s a clip. Link to full episode below.

[James Madison Program @MadisonProgram]

The late Alasdair MacIntyre once called for a new, though altogether very different, St. Benedict to refound moral community.

Recently speaking on "The Future of Originalism," Notre Dame Law (@NDLaw) professor Sherif Girgis (@sherifgirgis) called for a new Robert Bork to shape constitutional law. What did he mean by that?

Host @RyanShinkel asked him on the latest episode of Madison's Notes. For his answer and the full episode, see here: https://t.co/Q0wOMPuruq