My hippo dignity put on a tutu and called it done a long time ago.

Our wedding cake, of course, had the hippo dignity speech written on it.

JZ, I meant to say that I am very sorry about the situation you are in. It's just heartbreaking to hear how you and others have been alienated. I believe 'Suela is right: the church needs more of you.

I believe 'Suela is right: the church needs more of you.

I'm pretty sure the church itself wants less of her.

So what's gone down in JZ's parish is not the action of some rogue priest, but part of a larger strategy to break up liberal parishes. Basically, people like JZ are not being made welcome.

Yeah. If I'm a member of a parish these days, it's Corpus Christi, but I can't imagine the diocese trying to shut it down, despite its politics. Because it's in Montclair, on the edge of Piedmont, and they couldn't risk losing all that income.

Still. Argh.

Dear Newsperson:

You say of the car wreck, "The driver is deceased at this time." Do you expect that to change?

So, last night I tried using the flashlight on my iphone. Couldn't get it to work - believe the phone needed charging.

So I just went and hid in the bedroom where it's cool and this morning, went over to check the fusebox and yes, indeed- somebody had turn on my heat.

Sigh.

Why is there a delay between French Open radio and the NBC tv coverage?

(Of the French Open.)

Hey, I was baptized at Corpus Christi! We can see the little blue tower from my dad's back porch. And it was actually the home of the now-retired, about-to-be-fired priest and the fiery radical friend of Bartlett before they moved to my old parish.

The thing that's obvious from an outsider's perspective is that this parish priest was installed to basically break up this parish.

Oh, it's pretty obvious from an insider's perspective, too.

Nobody expects to be able to change the course of events; the goal is to make it happen in the open. And if eventually it came down to a big ugly rupture and a schism and we ended up with (a) Opus Dei, and (b) a Vatican II hodgepodge of folk songs and women priests and no more secret handshakes with the Mormons... I could live with that.

You say of the car wreck, "The driver is deceased at this time." Do you expect that to change?

I'm only surprised they didn't say allegedly or reportedly deceased at this time, just to totally cover their asses.

I was being Socottish.

Hee!

Also, if we ever have a recommitment ceremony, we may have to celebrate afterward with a hippo diggity cake.

And argh, sumi. My skin is getting all itchy and sweaty in sympathy. And mutual annoyance. Who the hell? Why?

I really dislike having control of my heater in one of the public areas of the building - particularly when I am the one paying for it.