Thursday, June 10, 2010
A Great YouTube Channel
The YouTube Channel of AnimeSong3 is the most beautiful combination of sacred music and sacred images I have yet encountered. Go there and enjoy.
I truly wish I knew how to actually create and upload something like this. I have tons of sacred music and tons of sacred images.
My own channel has well over 1,000 favorites (great heaping gobs of Irish and Celtic music and clips that appeal to the retired reenactor in me) that I have culled from all over YouTube, but no uploads, as I lack the skills and software and time to do that.
Maybe someday.
I truly wish I knew how to actually create and upload something like this. I have tons of sacred music and tons of sacred images.
My own channel has well over 1,000 favorites (great heaping gobs of Irish and Celtic music and clips that appeal to the retired reenactor in me) that I have culled from all over YouTube, but no uploads, as I lack the skills and software and time to do that.
Maybe someday.
Labels: Appreciating
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Ariel Agemian
One of the best, and least-known, Catholic artists of the last century. His work graces many of the publications of the Confraternity of the Most Precious Blood, including their indispensable edition of the Imitation Of Christ.
Labels: Appreciating
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Appreciating
I eat a lot of meals at McDonald's. And some at Wendy's. It is convenient for me. But I will readily admit that I am sick and tired of bland, mushy, warm burgers. Wendy's has atrocious service, particularly in the evenings. I can go to Burger King, but it isn't convenient. Burger King has better fries and better-tasting burgers. Downtown Boston and bordering areas has no Taco Bell, no KFC, no Pizza Hut. We have McDonald's BK, and Wendy's. And that is it for fast food. Circumstances have put me on a near-constant diet of burgers, hot dogs, pizza, subs, with the occasional bowl of clam chowder thrown in.
Desperate for something different, last week, I tried a roast beef sandwich at Quincy Market, at a place called The Brown Derby. They cut the beef to order. Well, I had a long, long wait. The fries were MacCain's frozen. Very bad. The roast beef sandwich was bland, lacking all flavor. My 1 roast beef sandwich, 2 orders of those awful fries (one for me, and one for a friend), and a Nantucket Nectar came to $17.00!!!!! Disappointing and way over-priced.
But this weekend, I was able to make up for it. You won't believe this, but I had never eaten in an Arby's. They are not everywhere, the way Mickey D's, BK, and Wendy's are (though they now own Wendy's). I was apprehensive after my experience at the Brown Derby with a roast beef sandwich. But I was very pleased with the result.
I ordered a beef and cheddar, with curly fries and a drink. Less than $6.00. I put some horseradish sauce, which they offer, on my sandwich. I got a 3-pepper sauce for my fries, even though they were already spiced. The sandwich had a sauce on it, and was served on a fresh onion roll. The cheddar was just plain cheddar cheese sauce, hardly Cabot's Seriously Sharp, which I am very fond of, but still nice. There was, admittedly, not as much roast beef on the sandwich as on the bland one at the Brown Derby. But it tasted much better. I got more satisfaction from that lunch than I have had from fast food in years.
I noticed that Arby's advertising campaign (which I am pretty much immune to, since I don't watch TV, and hardly ever listen to the radio) proclaims that they are trying to save the world from ordinary fast food, and challenging your taste buds. Very true, and I like what they are doing. Come on, Arby's! Open a store or two in Downtown Boston. And staff it with competent people, not the idiots who staff the Downtown Boston Wendys.
A big thumbs up for Arby's!!!
Desperate for something different, last week, I tried a roast beef sandwich at Quincy Market, at a place called The Brown Derby. They cut the beef to order. Well, I had a long, long wait. The fries were MacCain's frozen. Very bad. The roast beef sandwich was bland, lacking all flavor. My 1 roast beef sandwich, 2 orders of those awful fries (one for me, and one for a friend), and a Nantucket Nectar came to $17.00!!!!! Disappointing and way over-priced.
But this weekend, I was able to make up for it. You won't believe this, but I had never eaten in an Arby's. They are not everywhere, the way Mickey D's, BK, and Wendy's are (though they now own Wendy's). I was apprehensive after my experience at the Brown Derby with a roast beef sandwich. But I was very pleased with the result.
I ordered a beef and cheddar, with curly fries and a drink. Less than $6.00. I put some horseradish sauce, which they offer, on my sandwich. I got a 3-pepper sauce for my fries, even though they were already spiced. The sandwich had a sauce on it, and was served on a fresh onion roll. The cheddar was just plain cheddar cheese sauce, hardly Cabot's Seriously Sharp, which I am very fond of, but still nice. There was, admittedly, not as much roast beef on the sandwich as on the bland one at the Brown Derby. But it tasted much better. I got more satisfaction from that lunch than I have had from fast food in years.
I noticed that Arby's advertising campaign (which I am pretty much immune to, since I don't watch TV, and hardly ever listen to the radio) proclaims that they are trying to save the world from ordinary fast food, and challenging your taste buds. Very true, and I like what they are doing. Come on, Arby's! Open a store or two in Downtown Boston. And staff it with competent people, not the idiots who staff the Downtown Boston Wendys.
A big thumbs up for Arby's!!!
Labels: Appreciating
