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Notes from Hanazono

Notes from Hanazono

Rejected essays, bad fiction, and reprinted scraps written by Timothy H.J. Nerozzi

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Death of the Blue Check Nobility

Blue checkmarks have historically served as an order of merit and mark of authority for the most terminally online users of the site. 

Essay, Twitter

Shawnee arrow heads under a Pennsylvania field at night

Running through the underbrush like a spooked raccoon, zig-zagging and picking up speed as my Chippewa boots pound the ancient Shawnee arrowheads under the dirt farther into the past with every step.

Holy Smokes: Getting High in Roman Catholicism

There is no conclusion to this essay that definitively prescribes a lifestyle or relationship with drugs that will allow one to live virtuously. 

Catholic, church, drugs

More Than Our Bodies

From behind, the tall one looked like Riley. Even her butt was round and tight like Riley. 
I wondered if she looked the same without clothes on.  

Fiction, Short Story

I regret to inform you — we can’t just ‘ban porn’

There is little actual value in Twitter slogans, LARPing as Catholic inquisitors, and circle j**king (pun intended) about pious and well-ordered morality.

america, Catholic, love, porn, Sex

My Beloved City, So Bright

His clothing was bizarre and unique in its shape. The stiff collar of his coat rose up over his neck, and several metal ornaments in flowery patterns and shapes decorated his chest.

Emperor, Emperor Meiji, Fiction, Japan, Short Story

If Jesus says ‘no,’ go ask your Buddha

We want to fly to Cancun and have impoverished Mexican peasants deliver us our mojitos on time. We want to cheat on our wives with a Thai college student in a Seattle hotel, fly back home, divorce our wives, and live in Miami snorting coke off a call girl’s butt cheek.

america, Buddhism, Catholic, church, Japan, Religion

Almost Everything Under Heaven

“Y-YOUR HIGHNESS!” Konoe choked out. Michitaka threw himself up onto his feet in one motion, almost falling forward onto his face from the momentum of his frantic scramble.

Emperor, Emperor of Japan, Fiction, Japan, nobility, Short Story, Women

Exclusive Letter from Cardinal Zen of Hong Kong — ‘Parolin Is Telling Lies Shamelessly’ About The Church In China

“I will never fight with the Pope, but the Pope never tried to silence me, so [I] will continue to protest against Parolin,” Zen said.

cardinal, Cardinal Zen, Catholic, China, church, clergy, Hong Kong, Joseph Zen, pope

Cardinal Zen Of Hong Kong Struggles Against The Vatican — ‘I Will Not Stay Silent’

“I feel sorry to have disappointed our brothers and sisters behind bars. So, let us use a different way: a sincere prayer, to express our same caring and thought to them,”

bishop, cardinal, Cardinal Zen, Catholic, church, Joseph Zen, pope

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