Sunday report

As I might have predicted, that "giving up tea" thing was a bust. In the words of Bertie Wooster, "until I have had my early cup of tea and have brooded on life for a bit absolutely undisturbed, I'm not much . . . for the merry chit-chat." (Or the merry anything, actually--it's my sole source of caffeine.) So, for the sake of my family, I've settled on one small cup a day, with a drop of milk and no sugar. For me, that's pretty austere.

If you're a fan of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters, I highly recommend this post over at Gaudium Dei: http://www.gaudiumdei.com/2012/02/priests-are-scary.html (I can't make the link work--must be something wrong with my computer. Paste it into your address bar.)

In fact, I highly recommend any post over at Gaudium Dei. Joseph Jablonski and David Birkdale are giving me hope for my generation with every new post. They're shrewd, funny and resourceful, and if there's any place on the internet you should be frequenting during Lent--in fact, during the entire Liturgical Year--it's their blog.

On a writerly note, this post is making me consider digging out a "Screwtape Letter" of my own that I wrote last year. Maybe I'll air it out on the blog one of these days.

Until next Sunday - God Bless.

Off the Internet for Lent

Also off tea. Tentatively. We'll see if I survive the first week.

I may pop in on Sundays to check things out. Meantime, enjoy Ash Wednesday, and God Bless.

"Please, Jeeves"

I am very happy right now, for several reasons.

1. My latest obsession, Jeeves and Wooster, has its own manga series.

2. It's an excellent manga series with dead-on perfect illustrations, stories and dialogue lifted right from the short stories, and facts pages at the end with information from the Wodehouse Society and photographs of the actual places where the stories took place. And it was clearly written and drawn by people who love what they're doing.

In fact, the only problem a chappie could possibly have with "Please, Jeeves" is that it's too dashed short.

I'd actually been thinking what a great anime Jeeves and Wooster would make. Anime and manga is, as a whole, surprisingly fond of "wealthy English gentleman" humor. (I think the artists just like to draw all those great sleeves, ties and tophats.)

If you like, you can read it here.

Now someone please make this into an anime.