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Gear up. Load up. Eat fast. Prepare. Be ready. Lent starts tomorrow. Hurry. Now. We don't think about Mardi Gras in this way, but it is a subtext. Eat all the sweets you can before you can't. You'll be fasting. You'll have given up chocolate or... whatever it is you've decided to give up. But

http://youtu.be/cqBujJ9OVFU

It was a rough day for bigotry, yesterday. First, a federal judge overturned the Texas constitutional amendment that reserved marriage to be between a man and woman. Then later in the day, Arizona governor Jan Brewer vetoed SB 1062, which was intended to protect "religious liberty." Unsurprisingly, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said he'd appeal

Lent approaches, as always, silently and without fanfare. This year, I will shape my Lenten writings around the songs of Joy Division. Consider it a commentary for a kind of Lenten soundtrack. Mind you, this is not a Christianizing of Joy Division in any way. If anything, it is a drawing of Lenten observers further

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbnHmFKxPgA Feist, Metals, "Graveyard." I would sing this song at Bushwick Abbey.