as an erstwhile catholic and not one to be particularly ruminant or contemplative, and with deference; beuchner notwithstanding, i read the most fascinating tidbit in Mother Earth News. the money spent so far in our conflict/war in Iraq equals the same amount it would take to not only make the U.S. totally independent of foreign oil, but have our energy sources be 100% renewable. thanks, Condie....thanks Dick.... excellent choice.

buechner's brendan

Now Ita lived and died a virgin. I believe that is true if anything about her at all is true. Had any man ever tried to take his pleasure of her, he'd been blown clean off his feet by the great wind she was. She had never freshened.

mimes, et cetera

Holden! I'm about to plunge you into an existential crisis. I know you take your blogging seriously: see comments about religion and Alec Baldwin for examples of this. But blogging is about as serious and productive as miming or masturbation. ;-) Researchers have said recently that the internet as we know it is a failure. Is this a futile activity? (secretly, I'm pulling for you: you have to hold off the creeping fascist coyotes, and insanity) If you want to engage in serious discussions, that's fine. But keep your sense of humor and humility. Retain a degree of sarcasm. And I won't have to find you and torture you with irrelevant Cohen brothers quotes and excerpts from Jerry Falwell's sermons. Viva la Resistance!

is alec baldwin the devil? are his expectations too high for his daughter? when one is eleven years old, do they have the ability to tell time and use an otherwise complicated device like the phone?

a basic starting point

the point i suppose is the same for everyone......remain anonymous with the sense that what one is contributing to our own smatterings has poignancy, urgency, heft.....the weight of a sopping wool sweater.

my own dilemma is that i won't ever be Catholic; an accepted fully cloaked Catholic that is (for reasons we can discuss later). catholicism in the true sense (..i believe in the Holy catholic church) can't be grasped or denied only experienced. but the other...the wafer (host), the ability to sidestep the blessing (i want it to be the same but i still feel like i'm wearing a moo moo to my counterparts Hugo Boss tuxedo) and go directly to communion.

it's my desire therefore to share with, cajole, and otherwise engage the occasional visitor in an erstwhile disobedience. the surreptitious communing with our Lord and Savior apart from the scaffolding of the priesthood.