Matt Spainhour

Singing lead soprano in a junk man’s choir // still waiting for the second coming of Ophelia.

[The New Atlantis @tnajournal]

"As a society, we have made a devil's bargain with technology: we will take the benefits now and worry about the side effects later, trusting that by the time they catch up with us, there will be a technological treatment for them too."

[Matt Spainhour @mspainhour]

@fizzification duuuuuude. Unbelievably thrilled to see your avatar. Twitter… I mean “X”… can’t contain this convo and I obviously check this site minimally. BUT I WILL MEET YOUR DEMANDS!! Lemme DM you.

[Karl Barth: Mall Cop @KarlBarthVEVO]

The greatest country & western song ever, Pancho and Lefty, is motivated by the key insight that living in Ohio can be a spiritually equivalent fate to being shot to death in Mexico

[Matt Spainhour @mspainhour]

@TylerHuckabee Racing in the Street. So many favorites, but Racing in the Street.

[Vikram Murthi @fauxbeatpoet]

This has aged just enough to be really beautiful. A “look what we’ve lost” kinda thing. True. True.

[Alexander Raikin @AlexanderRaikin]

What's going on with Canada's MAiD program? Let's ask the physicians in charge.

This piece took a long time to report. I interviewed 50+ people. I went over two years of training seminars. And it turns out, MAiD in Canada is seriously flawed https://t.co/wdl21N0ucN

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

"A dreadful mass sentimentality, compounded of anger, fear, resentment and self-pity" - Michael Burleigh, on the mood of Europe in the aftermath of the Great War.

[Matt Spainhour @mspainhour]

@HarderRambles Oh, it’s already a poem.

[Malcolm Guite @malcolmguite]

You could have knocked me down with a feather

[Matt Spainhour @mspainhour]

@tonyreynozo This is the way.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

In the 1880s, the Harvard Observatory director was frustrated with his staff, and would say "My Scottish maid could do better!" So, he hired his Scottish maid. Williamina Fleming, who went on to discover tens of thousands of stars and more.

[Matt Spainhour @mspainhour]

@mattwilcoxen Man, yes! It’s so perfect. I’ve *almost* worked it into the service for Advent 1 the last 3 years. This tweet might be the nudge I needed for 2023.

[Matt Spainhour @mspainhour]

@KevinAntlitz … unless Snoop Dogg is on the bottle.

[Matt Spainhour @mspainhour]

tfw you see a hearse go through a fast food drive thru.

[Matt Spainhour @mspainhour]

@rcbernick ok but they just haven’t seen my church’s worship livestream or Very Relevant™ posts on Instagram yet so don’t worry

[Matt Spainhour @mspainhour]

@KevinAntlitz @JonTyson https://t.co/1mOqRdA2Xa I was really glad to dust it off for this online Advent service last year. The song starts at 16:00, but 12:15 gets you the Gospel reading—>Yeats—>Cowper. I can’t believe Advent is weeks away, but I am in desperate need of it.