by KARL STEEL Hi everyone! I’m trying to trick you into reading this whole thing with this jaunty opening. My interest in Sky Burial and…
This blog post is a preliminary sketch of what and when medieval Western Europe (hereafter, for simplicity’s sake, “medieval” or “medieval people”) would have known…
Over at the Smithsonian, Natasha Geiling writes about Santa, who has as many hometowns as Christ has foreskins. Santa lives at the North Pole, or, rather, the “North…
Tony Lewis from Whitney Biennial by KARL STEEL What the title says. Over the past couple days, I’ve been reading David Nirenberg’s forthcoming Neighboring Faiths: Christianity,…
by KARL STEEL A few nights ago, I made the mistake of watching The Horde, a 2012 film produced by the Orthodox Encyclopedia, (!), that…
Some of the pleasant cows of Bréhat. by KARL STEEL Nearly two years ago (!), I outlined a prospectus for my next book. You’ll have…
A sequence of thoughts: one of the main problems with meat-eating is that the thing with the meat gives us its meat unwillingly one solution…
Ryan Judkins reminds me that: during the curee, the dogs were usually fed on the innards of the deer, including the stomach, lungs (if they…
by KARL STEEL To ensure the blog stays as eclectic as possible, I’m here to talk, again, about deer carcasses, so you may want to…
The story goes like this: Anno Domini MCCCIIII. Quidam puer in partibus Hassie est deprehensus. Hic, sicut postea cognitum est, et sicut ipse retulit, cum…