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Your City Lies in Dust, My Friend

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"Mount Vesuvius in Eruption, 1817," by William Turner. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, Wallington, Connecticut, USA — “Mount Vesuvius in Eruption, 1817,” by William Turner. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, Wallington, Connecticut, USA

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Categories: Canon, Creativity, Lent, suffering

Tags: #apocalypse, #dust, #Lent, #Pompeii, #Siouxsie and the Banshees, #SPQR, #urban studies, #Vesuvius

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Alone Together – Plague Epistle I

Alone Together – Plague Epistle I

I am in Brooklyn, New York and I am writing a bleak theology while cloistered with the rest of my city. I do not know what these epistles, these letters, these dispatches are to become. But I am writing them, because they give me relief and we are alone together in this time of real uncertainty.

Yet There’s Still This Appeal

Yet There’s Still This Appeal

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It’s Just a Donut.

It's just a donut. There's a shop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, just off the G train at Nassau called Peter Pan Donuts. They do good donuts. In fact, Tina Fey has confessed she'd like to have sex with their white-cream-filled powdered ones. Personally, I prefer sex with their red velvet donut ice cream sandwiches, but I