Needle-Hooks for 1/31

"I don't have "friends" as much as I have acquaintances who have not yet filed a restraining order." - David Burge

Offering a continuing appreciation of scenes from the post-Christian age, with a small current of insouciance.

Invocation:

Of interest to those of a spiritual mind, today is the Feast of St. Marcella [325–410], patron of, among other things, vegetarians and those abstemious as she consumed neither wine nor animal flesh. A Roman, she was born the year o…