The Great Cold Moon

December 4, 2025. This is the Great Cold Moon in Mohawk

 

No, Goebbels wasn't excommunicated by the Catholic Church for marrying a Protestant

Joseph Goebbels, Bundesarchiv, via Wikimedia Commons

I think Christopher Hitchens was being unfair when he said that Joseph Goebbels was excommunicated by the Catholic Church for marrying a Protestant. He said this in his 2007 book God Is Not Great, and in other speeches and debates, including one where he mocks the church by saying "See, we do have our standards". Under the Canon law of that time, Goebbels would have been automatically excommunicated under the 1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 2319. Goebbels put himself in a state of excommunication, not the Church. No formal excommunication action against Goebbels by the Church has been found but in 1930, The Bishop of Mainz did formally excommunicate Nazis in his diocese. 

Officials in the Catholic Church had an inconsistent relationship with the Nazis, sometimes collaborating, sometime opposing.

A Redditor named AlbatrossLanding wrote "Geobbels (sic) wrote in his diary that he was excommunicated for his marriage, at the time of his marriage." but I can't find it in the available online version of his diary in German, which does not have an entry for that date and a search of the text doesn't find the German word for excommunicate.

He also said in one video that 50% of the military wing of the SS were Catholic, but in this book he brings the figure down to 25%.

Bad dream about Krystal

I had a dream about driving Krystal's corpse - I think I was trying to get her to Boston. I guess I feel bad because I haven't gone to visit her grave because of the situation in the States over immigrants.

Turkeys gleaning field

Turkeys looking for corn grains

 

Filming for Cheese on Top

 I joined the extras for filming an episode of Cheese on Top, a project by Stacey Case for Bell. Windsor, Ontario has an odd pizza with shredded pepperoni, something not found elsewhere except some places around Montreal, and the running gag is a protest against Windsor's pizza contrasted to Cornwall's cheese on top style.

Lawn darts using a pizza (Windsor pizza?) as a target

coloured tape used to mark position for actors

Slate operator found this -  Chinese says"Training note

Specimen

For training use - Do not circulate"

Windsor Street Cornwall is rebaptized 'Windsor Pizza Sucks Street".

Huge Irish Wolfhound takes part in filming

Mom punk band Wet For Days

Ottawa’s punk rock mom band. Wet For Days, 

Sarah Gott, lead guitar vocals, Steph Leger - Bass, vocals, Deirdre Dooley - drums,  at Bud's Records, 108 Pitt St, Cornwall, ON, 14 October, 2025

Band has six children between them. 

Wet For Days Bandcamp , Instagram , and website

Aurora, near Akwesasne, Ontario, 1 AM, November 12, 2025

Aurora, near Akwesasne, Ontario, 1 AM, November 12, 2025, some ice still on branches

 

Animated gif  via ezgif.com

Crabapples in snow

Crabapples in snow, November 11, 2025

 

Little red pepper

Little red pepper, only one I got off the plant!

 

Alexandria Free Library

Corner of Kenyon and Bishop, Alexandria, Ontario

Has a swing on the tree

 

Anscoflex twin lens camera

Anscoflex was a twin lens camera developed in 1954 by Ansco Anscoflex was designed by Raymond Loewy, who also designed the Shell petroleum logo. The lens cover slides up with the cover of the view screen to form a hood to shade the screen in bright light. It used the now obsolete 620 format film but with some worked 120 film can be used with it. See Good article here: 

November Moon behind crabapples

 

W3G & Co 16th Annual Trunk Sale

Author Melissa Yi (Yuan-Innes) in front of her books

 

Chucklez N' Knuckles 2025 Edition

 

Chucklez N' Knuckles 2025 Edition, Boxing followed by comedy,  Royal Canadian Legion Branch 297, 415 Second St W, Cornwall, Ontario, November 1, 2025 - children in front row father is one of the comics. About 10 years old - they were pretty cool with the very adult jokes and heckled the comics.

Halloween 2025

Halloween Pimp, Cornwall Square

Costumed workers, Food Basics

 

The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Port Theatre in Cornwall.

Photo by a kindly Columbia cosplayer

Me as Henry Woolf's photographer character who says the first spoken line in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I was in Jean Genet's The Balcony at the University of Guelph in 1983 which Woolf directed. He never talked about being in Rocky Horror or Steptoe and Son, but he did talk about working with Harold Pinter and Orson Welles. I was the projectionist for the first showing of  Rocky Horror in Cornwall in 1976 at St. Lawrence College - it had only had its first screening outside the UK, by the Canadian Film Institute, at the NAC in Ottawa on August 15, 1975, and it had not become a cult movie yet. Larry Sylvain, the theatre owner, told me that the video they were showing was from an original 35mm print of the movie they owned.

Let's do the Time Warp again! There is a stage in front of the screen for dancing.

I had forgotten to turn the autofocus back on on this lens, so crap photos!

 

 

Bats After Dark with Dr. Brian Hickey

 Facebook video of presentation

 Dr. Brian Hickey spoke about white nose syndrome and other challenges to bats in this region. He said that bats were being killed by wind turbines from the low pressure zones behind the blades caused them to hemorrhage.

Opps

 Just noticed my photos of Comet Lemmon were really lens flares! They were green like the comet was in real photos but they were all near a light source on the ground.

Fifth Haunted Drive-Thru at Charlottenburgh Park , 25 October 2025