David Michael Phelps

Distracted from distraction by distraction / Filled with fancies and empty of meaning / Tumid apathy with no concentration ... / ...in this twittering world.

[David Michael Phelps @DMPhelps]

As nervous as anyone about the coming season, but as things progress, Yzerman’s super-patience may prove to be a plus here.

[David Michael Phelps @DMPhelps]

Baconian Christians…. Mmmmmgghhh…

[Luke Burgis @lukeburgis]

I would give it 5 years max before this new generation of Baconian Christians names a church "The New Atlantis" in SF.

[David Michael Phelps @DMPhelps]

Yup. Does this it is a good quiz or they are just tracking my IP address? https://t.co/NSXZu8v14D via @nytgraphics

[David Michael Phelps @DMPhelps]

Can confirm.

[G. F. Allen @AuthorGFAllen]

Legend has it that reading is 10 times better when it’s raining and thundering outside.

[David Michael Phelps @DMPhelps]

Got my copy of @malcolmguite ‘s Galahad. Zoinks, Scoob! Whatta a lovely volume. If the work inside has half the attention to beauty as the construction of the book itself, this will be quite the read. Diving in today.

[David Michael Phelps @DMPhelps]

With the pending SSPX business, I’m realizing: I pronounce it “skizm,” though I’ve heard (and don’t approve of) “sizm.” But I’m hoping to effect a broader use of “Sha-zizm.”

[David Michael Phelps @DMPhelps]

@DrJohnPinheiro @jennfrey *Need* a professor? Maybe not. But *want* a companion to sit alongside and profess additional ways to enjoy something enjoyable? That’d be pretty good.

[David Michael Phelps @DMPhelps]

Has anyone built a Pretty Good Books program? Asking for a friend.

[David Michael Phelps @DMPhelps]

@cjscalia Free idea for the taking: spin off a discussion show (ala Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars). It’s just you chatting with a Catholic convert about a famous Catholic convert, while cruising about in a 60-something Shelby Cobra. Just call it “Convertable”.

[David Michael Phelps @DMPhelps]

@cjscalia I was generally aware of the man—“Burrows” from the Cheers credits tattooed in my memory from countless Thursday nights—but until now, I hadn’t realized how large a part he played as a (hereto) unacknowledged legislator of my cultural sensibility. Who else have I overlooked?

[David Michael Phelps @DMPhelps]

@DrJohnPinheiro @cjscalia Will be over shortly to pillage and plunder.

[David Michael Phelps @DMPhelps]

Priest truck repair reporting is what Internet is made for, and I’m here for it.

[Fr. Joseph Krupp @Joeinblack]

In terms of finishing Dad’s truck, today was not our day.
I got an emergency call and then a death call.
When we did get to work, the welds on the timing cover were very badly done.
Welding aluminum is a bear but it’s kind of another example of a part we bought where the welding was screwed up.
It sets us back two weeks.
Just like with the torque converter, we can’t take any more steps until this part gets to us.
I still feel good about it all. I was hoping we’d have it started today, but it simply wasn’t meant to be.

[David Michael Phelps @DMPhelps]

Between myself and @elonmusk, we now have over a trillion dollars of creative firepower to do good in the world.

[David Michael Phelps @DMPhelps]

🤦

[Walter M. Kimbrough @HipHopPrez]

"Academia’s stampede toward A.I. programs is challenging the perception that higher education is plodding. It is also inviting questions about whether colleges are sacrificing quality in a rush for relevance."
https://t.co/5BjgkqIMuC

[David Michael Phelps @DMPhelps]

That large, it doesn’t look like a light socket.

[Fr. Joseph Krupp @Joeinblack]

I just bought the biggest freaking socket I’ve ever bought 😂

[David Michael Phelps @DMPhelps]

A true friend + good scotch = soul balm.

[David Michael Phelps @DMPhelps]

@JMWSPT @BretVDB The poems have always been a bit “off” to me, even as a kid. But what I think is remarkable is how often the writing is “on” for so large and audacious a work. & fwiw, I am pretty sure were we to flip randomly to a point in Bloom’s oeuvre, we’d find just a lil’ grandiloquence.

[David Michael Phelps @DMPhelps]

@drantbradley Keep it up. Awesome.

[David Michael Phelps @DMPhelps]

He nailed it. Read it. Nailed it.

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

🧵My Latest: I watched an evangelical college die from the inside. Not from press releases. Not from “expert analysis.” From faculty meetings, anxious hallway conversations, and students who had no idea they were studying on borrowed time.