Wordpress - suburbanbanshee.wordpress.com - Aliens in This World
General Information:
Latest News:
Medieval Songs for Inciting Devotional Feelings 26 Aug 2013 | 09:45 pm
Here’s a neat paper by a music guy on another thing I’d never heard of. The Devotio Moderna movement included a Belgian named Johannes Mauburnus, aka Jan Mombaer (1460-1501), an Augustinian canon writ...
Scott Hahn Proves I Don’t Have All That Many Books 26 Aug 2013 | 06:22 pm
Scott Hahn’s home library consists of the standard bibliophile “apartment full of bookshelves,” except that it appears to be his basement or living room. (This is why it’s good to live in Steubenville...
“Golden Curry” — Pretty Good 26 Aug 2013 | 06:58 am
In my continuing pursuit of eating things that look good on anime, I’ve finally broken down and cooked some Japanese Indian curry with one of those Golden Curry curry cubes. First off, if you get a b...
Wonder Woman’s Outfit Not Swimsuity Enough 25 Aug 2013 | 06:19 am
People always complain about Wonder Woman’s outfit not being authentic because it “looks like a swimsuit.” Well, sure, her creator William Marston was creepy, but he wasn’t totally pulling the idea o...
La Vierge de Dom Rupert 24 Aug 2013 | 07:40 pm
This little bas-relief sitting in a museum in Liege has traditionally been known as a wonderworking statue/picture of Mary. The inscription around it says (with abbreviations), “This Gate will be clos...
Rules for Construing Latin 24 Aug 2013 | 02:53 am
Well, this was interesting. I found a book for doctors on how to read medical books written in Latin (Gregory’s Conspectus: A Literal Interlinear Translation….. It actually includes guidelines for con...
Rice Cooker Borscht 23 Aug 2013 | 04:13 am
It is easy! Can of beets, chopped up some. (I just chopped them up inside the can, to avoid beet juice messiness.) Half a carton of beef broth Salt A little vinegar Rice cooker all that on Hot. W...
Kenneth Grahame’s Horace’s Reluctant Dragon 21 Aug 2013 | 06:28 am
In which the Banshee’s lack of a classical liberal education is once again exposed. It turns out that the original “reluctant dragon” shows up in Horace’s Odes, Book 4, Ode 4, the third stanza. It’s ...
St. Pulcheria: Shadow Empress of Byzantium 20 Aug 2013 | 06:21 am
I had never heard about this lady, but she is awesome! St. Aelia Pulcheria was the daughter of Emperor Arcadius and Empress Eudoxia. After they died in AD 408, her brother, Emperor Theodosius II, wen...
St. Skylar, Skyla, Skyler? 20 Aug 2013 | 04:31 am
This is one of those names where I have to break it to you. The name is really a phonetic version of the Dutch last name “Schuyler,” courtesy of all the old Dutch settler surnames and place names in ...
