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This is for those of you who read the National Catholic Reporter article about the Chesterton's Society slide into irrational extremism and who want more info.  My book An Actor Bows - Show Biz, God and the Meaning of Life has gotten some positive reviews on Amazon , but it badly needs An Actor's Encore .  The book, as it stands, presents a far too positive picture of the Catholic Church. This is the encore. *** This is an email I sent to the Rochester, New York Chesterton Society, as they were organizing their 2021 conference, after skipping the 2020 conference because of COVID.  They had invited me to be a presenter at the conference, along with my friends Dale Ahlquist of the Society of GK Chesterton and Joseph Pearce, publisher of the St. Austin Review. The email is addressed to Lou, the organizer of the conference, but it went to a group of people, including Dale Ahlquist and Joseph Pearce. *** Dear Lou, I've communicated with Dale and Joseph about this separately a...

This week, the Twitter user @gkcdaily tweeted several of GK Chesterton's antisemitic statements and implicitly endorsed them.  Here's one ... It seems that Chesterton's fans are pivoting from, "Chesterton was not antisemitic!" to "Of course Chesterton was antisemitic and good for him!"  In a similar manner, fascist-leaning Christian Nationalists have gone from denying that Christian Nationalism even exists to saying, "Of course we're Christian Nationalists and we're proud of it!" As some of you know, I was, for a long time, a proud member and spokesman for the Society of GK Chesterton, speaking at and performing at Chesterton Conferences nationwide and making many videos celebrating Chesterton's writings and his influence on my conversion. But the Society of GK Chesterton has an obligation publicly to disavow @gkcdaily's celebration of Chesterton's Jew baiting.  Whether @gkcdaily is an official mouthpiece for the Society of ...

One of my latest audio books is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, with Lectures for Use as a Study Guide - by Mark Twain and yours truly. You'll get to hear me perform this remarkable novel - doing all of the character voices - and you'll get to hear the lectures I gave to my students at Homeschool Connections .   The book will soon be available at Audible, but for now is available here ... Audible -  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Kevin O'Brien - Audiobook - Audible.com Scribd :  https://www.scribd.com/ audiobook/581721124/ Adventures-of-Huckleberry- Finn-The-with-Lectures-for- Use-as-a-Study-Guide Kobo, Walmart :  https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ audiobook/adventures-of- huckleberry-finn-the-with- lectures-for-use-as-a-study- guide Chirp :  https://www.chirpbooks.com/ audiobooks/the-adventures-of- huckleberry-finn-with- lectures-for-use-as-a-study- guide BingeBooks :  https://bingebooks.com/book/ adventures-of-huckleberry- finn-the-wi...

Back in the late 1990s, I first fell in love with Branson, Missouri. It was the perfect combination of rugged, natural Ozark scenery, show business, real-country-charm mixed seamlessly with fake-country-charm and a heapin' homestyle serving of garish ugly over-the-top commercialism, dolloped onto your plate like a cup-and-a-half of instant mashed potatoes at an all-you-can eat buffet line, where you're being shoved out of the way by a 300-pound beefy guy wearing a US flag tank top.   W hat was not to love ?! Back in the day, Branson drew bus tours of senior citizens from all over America.  There were dozens of live performances a day, from breakfast shows to matinees to dinner shows to after-dinner shows.  I even performed in Branson for a while, doing my interactive comedy murder mysteries , but the only show that sold consistently was Murder in the Morning - an 8:30 am breakfast show (I am not making this up).   Bacon, eggs and bloodshed.  ...

  This is at the website The Crew of the Barque Lone Star. Thanks to Steve Mason.