#1603: Bk. 10C, The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning

The Ring and the Book continues, after being abandoned on this podcast since January. (Yes, it’s a little too big for me. I admit it.) For those who weren’t listening back then or who have forgotten in six months, this epic poem about a strange case of a wife’s flight and a family’s murder in [...]

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Technical Difficulties (aka It’s Not My Fault!)

And anyway, there’s no proof! You’ll never find the dead silicon body!
Ahem.
I uploaded a bunch of chapters of Intro to the Devout Life today, but archive.org doesn’t seem to be in a good mood about letting the rest of the world see them. I’m going to stop fiddling with it and go see my parents.
Basically, [...]

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#1593: Chs. 30-35, Bk. 3, On Christian Doctrine by St. Augustine

On Christian Doctrine continues, as we get to yet another important meaty part of the book. Back in the day, one Tichonius, a Donatist, wrote an important book on scriptural interpretation which is now lost. So all we have is the Cliff Notes version from St. Augustine. In this installment, we hear Rules 1-4. Next [...]

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Giving In to Pressure

Air pressure on my sinuses, that is….
I’m sorry, folks. Yesterday was a near total wash, thanks to all these fronts moving through, and I’ll probably be spending most of tonight curled up with my sinus medicine, too. With any luck, I’ll be able to post something tomorrow morning.
In the meantime, you can always check out [...]

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Free Music!

The happy people at the Church Music Association of America (CMAA) Colloquium in Chicago have been posting recordings of their various Masses and Liturgy of the Hours services. (The idea is that you go to classes and workshops about sacred music, but you also go to Masses and prayer services where you sing and play [...]

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Next Week

Now that The Beetle Horde is done, there’s only two short stories left in the February issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science. So I’ll be finishing that up this coming week. We’re also done with the daily meditation phase of Introduction to the Devout Life, so that will be moving back to Saturdays. I’ll start [...]

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Free Neil Gaiman Short Story on Audible

I don’t think I’ve ever read Gaiman’s short story “Chivalry”. Since it involves the Holy Grail, it may or may not be incredibly beautiful — or incredibly offensive — or just meh. So for you Audible subscribers out there, feel free to join me in playing yet another game of Neil Gaiman Roulette!

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Apologizing Again

I am currently experiencing personal technical difficulties, which is to say that I’m too tired from work and other stuff to record. Sorry about this. I’ll try to make up for it over the weekend.
In other news, my physical therapist says I won’t have to do rehab on my arm more than a couple more [...]

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Librivox Vacation Audiobooks

If you can’t get away very far this summer, here’s some good travel books!
John Muir’s journal of My First Summer in the Sierras.
Mark Twain’s satirical travelogue, The Innocents Abroad, and his account of his travels through Europe with a friend, partly on foot, A Tramp Abroad.
The Englishwoman in America is the account of one lady’s [...]

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The CalonSound Project

The Society for Creative Anachronism is a number of different kinds of fun all stuck together: historical re-creation, historical recreation, roleplaying, cosplay, martial arts, eating and drinking, camping, friendship and fellowship, political gamesmanship, and so on. Often the non-historical fun overwhelms the history. (For example, most SCA music is by contemporary composers, and is about [...]

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Free Early Music Album Download on Amazon

Naxos has an early music sampler up for free on Amazon.
I know Naxos tends toward scary academic-looking album covers, but the music is great. And you can’t beat free. If you’ve never listened to much early music, this’ll be a real treat. I promise. And it’s free. (But for how much longer, I don’t know.)

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Ooh! Free audiobook of Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder! Ooh!

Sun of Suns, which is a science fiction book full of sense of wonder, wit, and people in odd gravity situations getting to fly bizarre contraptions for non-gratuitous reasons, is free from June 1 to June 12 over at Audible. It’s a very good deal, if you’re a member already, and not bad at all [...]

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Free Audiobooks in Spanish

The important search terms are apparently “audiolibros” and “gratis”. Some people prefer “libros hablados” and “gratuitos”. Other good search terms are “audioteca” and “fonoteca”. (I like that word “audioteca”. A “biblioteca” is a library, so an audioteca is an audio library.) Audio fiction is apparently “audiorelatos”, radio dramas/soaps are logically enough, “radionovelas”, [...]

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It’s an Honor to Be Nominated

The Maria Lectrix podcast has been nominated for “Most Spiritual Podcast” in the 2009 Catholic New Media Awards.
Thank you to whoever nominated it!

Voting starts June 1 and runs through June 30.
This is probably the only time anyone will ever mention my podcast in the same breath with the Christophers, Father Z, and the [...]

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Sorry about the Lack of Posting This Weekend

And yes, I brazenly wasted hours on a Pangur Ban search project instead. I will make it up to you this week.
Re: my lack of energy –
Well, obviously it has a lot to do with flu this winter and allergies and sinus this spring, with lots of my energy shunting into bone growth, and with [...]

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