Category Archives: Art, music, letters

Free Advice for The Budding Brown

Posted on 15 May, 2024 by C.L.

First of all, blame the whites: Winnie Dunn becomes the first Tongan Australian to publish a novel. Dirt Poor Islanders’ opening scene neatly illustrates the cultural clash Meadow navigates as an Australian-born Tongan living in Sydney’s western suburbs. The young … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, music, letters, Culture and society, Left-wing hypocrisy | 18 Comments

LOL

Posted on 2 May, 2024 by C.L.

ABC investigative journalist Louise Milligan switches from news to fiction with her debut novel.

Posted in Art, music, letters, Fake news, Media | 30 Comments

St Mark’s FTW

Posted on 2 May, 2024 by C.L.

Trash: 10 Must-Visit Pavilions at the Venice Biennale. Australia’s predictable exhibit is derivative. “When they stop believing in God, they call themselves modernists.” – Sir Humphrey Appleby.

Posted in Art, music, letters, Culture and society, Fake news | 11 Comments

Cross Country

Posted on 29 April, 2024 by C.L.

Mission: ‘You have to get off your sofa’ – Young French Catholics restore wayside crucifixes. We received thousands of donations overnight and people across France asked us to restore calvaries in their regions. We understood there was something to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, music, letters, Culture and society, History, Religion and faith | 35 Comments

1 Corinthians 13:1-8

Posted on 23 April, 2024 by C.L.

Posted in Art, music, letters, Religion and faith | 11 Comments

You’re good to go: behind the wheel of the 1950 Austin Atlantic

Posted on 7 April, 2024 by C.L.

A far simpler array than the 1960 Chrysler that headlines Iowahawk’s tribute thread to dashboards. I recently came across this image while reading about the promising A90. It deserved a longer run.

Posted in Art, music, letters, History, Science and technology | 8 Comments

Beauty As Choice

Posted on 1 April, 2024 by C.L.

Great thread about Antoni Gaudí, the Sagrada Família, Barcelona and the Catalan Renaissance: The transformation of Barcelona after 1855 would not be conceivable anywhere in the West today.

Posted in Art, music, letters, Culture and society, History | 20 Comments

Now trial ‘free from the black gaze’ nights on the Underground

Posted on 1 March, 2024 by C.L.

New West End play allocates two nights for black audiences to watch ‘free from the white gaze.’

Posted in Art, music, letters, Culture and society, Left-wing extremism | 20 Comments

The President of Russia still hasn’t found what he’s looking for

Posted on 22 February, 2024 by C.L.

Next week it’ll be two years since Putin invaded and tried to destroy the hard-won freedoms of Ukraine. Next it’ll be Poland, next it’ll be Lithuania, East Germany; who knows where this man will or won’t go.” – Bono makes … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, music, letters, Fake news | 27 Comments

The realisation that a life spent aping men is a miserable sham

Posted on 13 February, 2024 by C.L.

Sad girl novels like Madeleine Gray’s are everywhere right now. What’s behind this literary trend?

Posted in Art, music, letters, Culture and society | 51 Comments

Wholly Smoke

Posted on 16 January, 2024 by C.L.

It pleases me that hand-crafted pipes are still being made. This beauty is for Fr Calvin Robinson. “I believe pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.” ‑ Albert Einstein, the man DEI would … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, music, letters, Culture and society | 9 Comments

Ridding the powerful of a turbulent priest couldn’t happen now

Posted on 29 December, 2023 by C.L.

Cardinal George Pell: Prison Journal, Ignatius Press, Volumes 1, 2 & 3 pack. (On sale for $99.95).

Posted in Art, music, letters, History, Politics and governance, Religion and faith | 5 Comments

An accidentally perfect metaphor-epitaph for the Western world

Posted on 23 December, 2023 by C.L.

“We said, ‘What are you doing?’ but no-one really knew what to do. We sort of just watched it happen.”

Posted in Art, music, letters, Culture and society, Rule of law | 12 Comments

Signs of Hope

Posted on 8 December, 2023 by C.L.

A new cross atop a spire for Notre-Dame and work is nearing completion on La Sagrada Família.

Posted in Art, music, letters, History, Religion and faith | 3 Comments

Have mercy upon me, O God

Posted on 12 October, 2023 by C.L.

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Against The World

Posted on 6 October, 2023 by C.L.

NEW: Pell Contra Mundum, edited by Robert A. Sirico. A white cassock would have suited him.

Posted in Art, music, letters, Religion and faith | 6 Comments

A Portrait of the Western World As An Old Man

Posted on 19 September, 2023 by C.L.

A Danish artist has been ordered to repay a museum after delivering blank canvases. And then you get an artist Who says he doesn’t want to paint at all So he takes an empty canvas And he sticks it on … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, music, letters, Ethics and morality | 11 Comments