Eric Scheske

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The Biggest Bar Night of the Year is Here

Just don't call it "Blackout Wednesday" It’s here! Black Wednesday 2021. My erstwhile traveling companion has the COVID, so he won’t be joining me, but I’ll have three sons in tow, thereby smashing the previous record held by my Dad (one son . . . me)

GKC on Waugh

GKC on Waugh

Evelyn Waugh liked to send out satirical Christmas cards, and the apex (or nadir] of this practice was reached during the Christmas season of 1929. Waugh's card that year consisted of extracts reprinted from unfavorable reviews of his first novel, Decline and Fall. The harshest passage of all

How to Pay for Thanksgiving Dinner

Are food prices soaring? Ever since the 2008-2009 crisis, the thinkers, pundits, and writers who ascribe to the Austrian School of economics have assured us that massive inflation was going to start. They assiduously refused to provide a date, but they assured us nonetheless, often suggesting we hoard gold and

Ten Catholic Drinking Costumes Guaranteed to Impress

Halloween lands on the weekend! Far out. If you have costume parties to attend, and you want to embrace your Catholicism, and you want to embrace the (drinking) weekend, I have ten great ideas. The Liberated Nun, circa 1518 This one might be hard to set up with your crowd,

BYCU Special Edition

Black Wednesday Far out. Here we are again: Black Wednesday. The hardest part about writing about Black Wednesday from a Catholic perspective is the, um, Catholic part. Let's face it: Black Wednesday is occasionally referred to as "black out Wednesday." It's not exactly a

Friday

Brews You Can Use: Special Holiday Edition Christmas is nigh. I've never been much of a Christmas drinker. Thanksgiving? Sure, but Christmas? Nope. I certainly don't have a religious problem with drinking, since, as long-time TDE readers know, I practically consider alcohol a sacramental, but there&

Special BYCU Edition: Eight Years Running

Black Wednesday again. Far out. I've been celebrating Black Wednesday since 1985, when I first came back home from college for Thanksgiving Break. It is one of my favorite days of the year. But how long have I been writing about Black Wednesdays? For that, I had to

Merry Christmas

A Christmas Carol by G.K. Chesterton The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap, His hair was like a light. (O weary, weary were the world, But here is all aright.) The Christ-child lay on Mary's breast, His hair was like a star. (O stern and cunning

Something for Christmas Morning

"He is born poor, and he teaches us that happiness is not to be found in an abundance of earthly goods. He comes into the world without any ostentation, encouraging us to be humble and not to depend on the applause of men." Francis Fernandez

Monday

St. Francis and Christmas The picture is St. Francis of Assisi Preparing the Christmas Crib at Grecchio [http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/giotto/st-francis-of-assisi-preparing-the-christmas-crib-at-grecchio-1300] . I've long been a St. Francis fan (who isn't?), but I never realized he is largely to thank for the intense warmness