The International House of Pancakes (IHOP) restaurant chain is offering a free short stack of pancakes today, between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. I assume that's local time. I won't be joining in, only because for one day back in college, I was a busboy at an IHOP, and from cleaning up those customers' messes, have lost any interest whatsoever in eating pancakes.

For Shrove Tuesday information, see Shrovetide (raw herring in oil?, now that sounds tasty), Shrove Tuesday traditions (which has two interesting images, one of penitents making their confessions and the other of a pancake race), Shrove Tuesday today! and Absolutely Perfect! Be careful which IHOP you show up at, because the Seething Midwest Explodes Over Lombardi Cartoons.

Someone visited this blog through the technorati search: Pristas and latin, which lead me to this blog in Dutch: Ad mentem Sancti Thomae Aquinatis. Using technorati search myself, I came across this one in Portuguese: A Casa de Sarto, which links to a number of fine blogs.

Mark Keith has been teaching Latin at different Virginia high schools since 1987, and blogging at pro linguae Latinae magistris since Monday, February 13, 2006. Thanks to New Blog: pro lingua Latinae magistris at the Thoughts on Antiquity blog (which has an amusing domain name: neonostalgia.blogspot.com).

How do you do in identifying and defining the Classical literacy terms?

The Music Department of Ave Maria University will hold its third annual Advanced Gregorian Chant study week this coming July, at Solesmes. Susan Treacy has some details at Gregorian Chant Study Week in Solesmes, France on the Musica Sacra blog of the Catholic Music Association of America. There's a one page .pdf file on the blog here, with some more information and an application.

These are words near the end of Stephen Heiner's post The very latest about SSPX-Rome relations, directly from the Superior General, Part I of II, in which he paraphrases and discusses Bp Fellay's conference at St Isidore the Farmer Catholic Church, in Watkins, Colorado, U.S.A. It always was going to get down to that, wasn't it? I would like to be as sanguine about prospects for the liberation of the Traditional Latin Mass, but for long term prospects, a reinterpretation of the Council is a necessity. I don't expect to see such a reinterpretation in the time I have left on this earth. There is too much rot to be cleared away, and too few surgeons.

Domenico Bettinelli, in his post New Catholic blog search engine, points to CatholicBlogs.com, which claims to have more than 13,000 articles from 697 Catholic blogs. Curious, I searched for "bubble gum" and "synth-pope", with and without the double quotes, thinking that such search terms would pull up my post Catholic bubble gum music, a/k/a synth-pope. Nothing from this site. I also tried "neurotic nostalgics", with the double quotes, and Prof Blosser's post popped up, but not '[C]andid academic research is destroying the myth that Catholics who favor traditional liturgy [are] simply neurotic nostalgics'. Maybe I need to send them copies of my baptismal and confirmation certificates, or a letter from some of the diocesan priests who know me.

It was inevitable. Just as traditional vestments become so popular that they have to go on back order, and small neo-Catholic family size destines them to extinction, now that the Donegal Express blog is a finalist for the Catholic Blog Awards, the awards site goes off line.

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The best reason to vote for him is not that the success of the SSPX talks hangs by a thread, it's because he can write a post with the title It’s a UNIX system! I know this! – Lex Murphy.

The Una Voce America Northeastern Regional Conference 2005 blog announced on Monday, February 13, 2006, that audio tapes and a DVD of the Braga Rite Mass are now available: the blog post is Order Conference Tapes - DVDs. I see only the one DVD, of the Mass and Bp Rifan's talk, so maybe they're planning more. Maybe His Excellency playing the accordion? I assume Mr Maynard's jokes are on one of the audio tapes.

I don't know why the most recent comments are not displaying over on the left. Periodically, I delete spammers' comments, and after a recent spate of deletions, the comment to the post 'A missal for the laity, in English, from 1806' and to 'The Ghent Altarpiece boggles the mind', and earlier ones, no longer display. I've checked the comments via this blog's adminstration interface, and both look copasetic: neither has its IP address blocked and neither was deleted (the two options I use when dealing with comment spam). So, I post this to let the commenters know that they've not been mistreated or singled out, deliberately or otherwise.