lunch - kamut pasta (finished the box) with white beans, butter, and cheese. so much yum.

If I bumped into Pace on the street I think I'd praise his work and then ask if fans need to take up a collection for him so we don't end up seeing him in The Love Guru 2 or something similarly horrific.

Restore Lee Pace!

JZ, I know this is a decision you've struggled with for a long time, and I am sad that it has come to this. I hope you and the other departees can find or structure a much more congenial congregation.

Look at the vintage kitchen in this house!!

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I liked the supporting characters in Dead Like Me, not so much George.

Totally agreed...and this seems to be the case for most shows that I like. It's almost never the lead character that keeps me coming back. I wonder what that says about me? Something deeply existential, I'm sure.

smonster, I adore Gragham Norton but could not be fussed to get the Miley/Usher episode. What would the point of that be? Except, perhaps, to see the hoops GN must have jumped through to keep it from becoming the nadir of his career.

Lee Pace stole my heart in Soldier's Girl. This means I know have a glamored perspective on everything I see him in. I just smile and let is wash over me without letting any of it stick to my shirt...if that makes sense. He gets a free pass from me...but I do wish he had better opportunities/representation.

The Squeakquel is the in flight movie on this plane. Needless to say I am not watching it.

Thanks for the kind thoughts. I'm hoping not to have to bail on the Church altogether, at least not just yet, because there's all kinds of mystic woo that's not quite like the mystic woo of the other denominations that is dear to my wooful heart and it would break me completely to separate myself from that for ever and aye.

There's a Newman Center parish near our apt that will be good - lots of neighborhood kids, involvement in neighborhood activities both religious and secular, and a strong pro-women's-ordination contingent. Other people are also peeling off to various Newman Centers -- since they're all associated with college campuses, they kind of have to be more flexible and community-engaged and non-dogmatic, or the college students are going to give them a quick fuck you and disappear forever.

But I think we owe it to the new lousy pastor and the retired excellent pastor, and the community in general, to not just drift away quietly but to formally resign and be very clear and explicit about why. Next month's parish council meeting should be a real laugh riot.

Sophia, I love that kitchen. We have an islandy thing (rounded edge) on the end of our counter.

Today is grad clearance day at school. Kids are irritating, "But I TURNED that book in!"

but to formally resign and be very clear and explicit about why. Next month's parish council meeting should be a real laugh riot.

Yeah, I kind of hope you give it to them with both barrels. Not really a prince-of-peace sentiment, I realize, but there should be some accountability for driving people away.

It's not like you're the only one. Indeed many long time parishioners have left over the last year for the increasingly conservative direction towards which your church has been pushed.

(For those of you who care for the backstory, the cardinal put in to oversee the East Bay was purposefully chosen because he's quite conservative. There's been a very strong and concerted effort on the part of the upper echelons of the church to break the liberal parishes in the East Bay. That's why JZ's relatively new parish priest is so much more conservative than the previous ones. The strategy has been the same for San Francisco, but it's been less successful in the City. Still, it was the SF Cardinal who reached out to Mormons to fund Prop 8.)

Not Always Right is gold today - I'm an atheist and even I think this is sad: [link]

Sneak preview of Glenn Beck's first novel. [link] I was going to say favorite part was the top-secret meeting with everybody's names on the catering order, but then I got to the end of the article and read the Star Wars part, and I cannot stop giggling.