Concerning blogs

The Runes of Christ blog, dedicated to exploring early Germanic Christianity, pushing Odin-as-type-of-Christ imagery as far as it can go, and expressing the occasional bit of Pope-love, has sadly closed down, and is, as of this moment, inaccessible without a password. A pity; I should have copied down more of the poems he posted, when I had the chance.

Eve Tushnet is worthy of mention for both generally-interesting subject matter and memorable topic-tags - So far from God so close to the United States, pour the liquor pour le droit, and my favourite, It is very dark. You are likely to be wrestled by an angel.

I'm currently flicking through the archives of the MaxedOutMama blog, which I remember getting very panicky about the prospects for the US housing market back in '06 or '07 - and we know where that led in late '08, so props for predictive ability. (She now thinks the "credit crunch" was more a side-effect of energy prices and inflation rather than credit; I've not the economic know-how to judge such things.) She's currently blogging about the European crisis and thinks the US Government debt cause for concern - although these are pretty conventional doomsayings (is there anyone who doesn't know about Greece's problems?) compared to heralding the 2008 crunch way before time.

Finally, congratulations to The Kraken (my sponsor in Popery - pictures soon) for passing his exams, and to Elberry for finding a new base of operations in Germany, from which to seek to corrupt the minds of the Germans and pontificate on life, death, and beautiful women.

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Today is the feast day for not one, but two Sts. Heliodorus (St. Heliodori?), martyred for the Faith - one Roman, one Persian; St. Eadbert, a Lindesfarne abbot, whose bones lie in the cathedral at Durham, which I lived in the shadow of while studying there; two English martyrs who were hanged, drawn and quartered under Good Queen Bess; St. Evodius, successor of Peter as overseer of Antioch; and St. Petronax, who rebuilt an Italian abbey that had been plundered and destroyed by the Vikings.