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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
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.
"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
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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