You Know You're a Catholic Nerd When...

...You base your selection of cheap red wine for a friendly gathering solely on the fact the head of the winery producing the bottle is rumored to be a member of Opus Dei (dun dun DUUNNN), and indeed, the winery has had a few ludicrous conspiracy theories linked to it.**And that you know all this is because the only book you have ever read on wine was written by John Zmirak.

Edward Weber, the Unknown Architect

Edward Joseph Weber is, in many respects, the José Carreras of the early twentieth century Gothic Revival. You have Pavarotti, Domingo, and...the other guy, just as you have Cram, Goodhue, and...the other guy. Indeed, I would not have known of his existence had not he published two well-illustrated books on Catholic ecclesiology that often served as extremely thinly-veiled showcases of his work.

Bertram G. Goodhue in Cleveland

The great early twentieth-century architect Bertram G. Goodhue, Ralph Adams Cram's sometime business partner and the designer of the Nebraska State Capitol, St. Vincent Ferrer in New York City, and, with Cram, much of West Point, was also the progenitor of numerous minor masterpieces scattered across the country. I was quite surprised to discover one of his church designs can be seen in Cleveland

Westweek - The Editor at Large Panel

I am happy to announce I will be a guest speaker at The Editor at Large panel at the PDC. Pacific Design Center announces Westweek 2010: Design Revolution, which takes place March 24 and 25 and includes three keynote panels, 50+ showroom programs, book signings, new product line introductions and a roster of lectures by renowned experts in the field. It will be capped by the 2010 Stars of Design

REMINDER: DNG EVENT at Fifth Floor THIS THURSDAY Feb 25th at 7pm!

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The School for Sinners

"No longer is being divine; now the divinity is first being and cause of all there is. [...]"Why is this important? Because it radically transforms the way in which God is to be thought. Philosophically, it becomes required that God is the first cause, and the ground of all being, and of every particular being in its being. God is the summum ens, highest being. The nineteenth-century return

Seeking Design Intern

Thank you to everyone who submitted, the position has been filled.

Upward Bound House

After two and half long weeks I am happy to share my room that I decorated at Upward Bound House. I want to give a big thank you to the companies that did donate like The Woven Company Shades, Zia Priven lighting, paint by Benjamin Moore and wallpaper by Madison and Grow. You can click here to view them. Enjoy! Photography by Laure Joliet.

A Thurible from the Church of St. Anthony, Padua

Source: Taken from the otherwise mediocre work Postwar Churchbuilding.

XL1200X Sportster Forty-Eight (2010)

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FXDWGI Dyna Wide Glide (2005)

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FLSTC Heritage Softail Classic (2002)

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FXDWG Dyna Wide Glide (2002)

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YAMAHA Luxair Concept (2007) insurance info | pictures |

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KAWASAKI 1400 GTR (2010) insurance info | wallpapers | specs |

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KAWASAKI ER-6f ABS (2008) | specs | pictures | insurance info |

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YAMAHA MT-01 (2006) | insurance info | wallpapers | specifications |

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