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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile

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Churchman, draughtsman, aesthete, pedant. Often tiresome, sometimes insufferable, never dull. https://open.substack.com/pub/askwallace/p/trec-ing-into-the-future?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · 24d

Incipit to a horror story.

Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 24d

Auntie Zelda stung by jellyfish and shed her skin.

⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · 26d

This is my view as well. Doing something like this in a Mar Thoma church would be met with… something less than approbation.

The text of the musical meditation, sent without context from a priest to a layperson, would be grounds for an immediate Title IV charge.

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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · Sep 8

Together with this is the fact that fruits and vegetables can, in the right climate, grow on their own, while animal husbandry is more-or-less a daily obligation.

⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · Aug 30

Sunflowers: just the thing for a satisfying annual garden. (Protected them from vermin until they’ve germinated.)

They grow satisfyingly quickly, and pollinators love them, too!

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · Aug 15

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · Jul 18

feast on our tax dollars, shithole red states

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Jul 18

ugh California is so terrible i can’t believe anyone would ever live there they say as i park for free at the beach at sunset

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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · Jul 18

This is one thing that large parts of New Jersey actually get right, probably due to most of the coastline having only been developed in the 19th century as railroad resorts.

⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · Jul 13

Welcome home!! (Having come from ELCA to TEC, my annoyance with Rite 2 began with the use of “you” in lieu of “who/m” in the Collect for Purity.)

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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · Jul 1

I’d be less opposed to it if SEPTA did what I need it to do. At this point, I fundamentally don’t have confidence in its ability to get me from A to B.

⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · Jul 1

What is less clear is just how congestion pricing would work without just dumping traffic into adjacent neighborhoods. Manhattan, being an island, is a much easier control case.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · Jun 26

"My father, an early and prominent computer scientist, passed away more than two years ago. Since then I’ve been trying to make sense of how rapidly the world that helped make him, and in turn the one he helped shape, is unraveling." 1/ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...

Did My Father’s World Die with Him? Grieving the Incalculable Costs of “STEM.” - The Scholarly Kitchen

Grieving my father's death feels inextricably tangled with grieving the catastrophe overtaking the whole of our research infrastructure.

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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · Jun 26

It’s crying out to be Perp or Deco Gothic, and - surprise! - gets a steep, Early or even French roof plopped on.

⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · Jun 26

Some good stuff there, though I’m not entirely convinced by the scissor trusses in the Nave.

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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · Jun 16

Not of the sort that could lead to consecrated Hosts being flung around the sanctuary!

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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · Jun 15

A necessity! But Fortescue is sadly silent on what to do about wandering wasps on ciborium knops.

⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · Jun 15

Celebrating Father’s Day at Valley Forge by stage-whispering to Father Rector that a wasp had flown onto the ciborium mid-Consecration and that it needed to be removed before the Cel touched it

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · Jun 2

Happy Pride to the tenor section of all choirs

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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · May 30

1. Just as it is. No reason to change a classic.

⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · May 29

I mean, I *like* Ascension Day. I just wish there were ways to keep it that don’t dynamite… the only evening this week in which it isn’t pouring… with a 90-minute liturgy.

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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · May 29

I’d say it’s mostly the latter - per Tract 61, “The desire of novelty is restlessness; the maintenance of our own novelty is selfishness.”

There isn’t a single worship resource post-1970 that I’d have someone take with them to, say, Basic Training. They’re too fiddly and group-centric.

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · May 14

A little purr floating your way
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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · May 14

The Psalter is, unsurprisingly, one of the biggest structural issues with the pagination.

(Then again, the existence of the ‘79 psalter, which to me reads like the feeling of using someone else’s toothbrush, is itself an issue.)

⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · May 14

La Hambina wants to give you a hug.

A classic tabby sitting on a red-and-green patterned rug. She is on her hind legs and reaching towards the camera, with a look of wide-eyed insistence on her face.

⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · May 13

Depart ostentatiously for as long as is needed to keep the feast. The official muckety-mucks should be able to get the kalendar through their skulls.

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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · May 12

Dirty work done at the font.