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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Also the head boss of everyone was on site today so people were high strung.
The Grandboss!
Grey chilly morning in SF, though the fog will probably burn off before noon.
I have to get Matilda up for her Pilates consultation/assessment. Basically just seeing if she's fit to do Pilates and where her strength/flexibility is to put her at the proper level.
White smoke! There's a new pope! They haven't announced who yet, though.
I'm like 99% sure it isn't Trump.
White smoke! There's a new pope!
That's quick! Where's the intrigue and the infighting?!
I'm like 99% sure it isn't Trump.
Is it our Tom Scola?
Sun has already broken through in SF. Back off fog!
I'm like 99% sure it isn't Trump.
Is it our Tom Scola?
The NBC commentators are saying it's the first American — Robert Francis Prevost. (That's not his papal name.) Wow!
Okay, he's Pope Leo XIV. He apparently was favored by Pope Francis as a successor, so hopefully he'll continue Francis's more progressive (for the Catholic Church) attitude.
He's 69 years old and a Chicagoan who also has Peruvian citizenship.
A USAmerican pope will not get me back to the church, but it's pretty cool nonetheless.
No Pizzaballa for you!
No Pizzaballa for you!
I'm a little disappointed by that.
I log in to tell everybody about my overnight adventures, and get immediately upstaged by a new Pope.
(Housemate -- the spouse of the one who was on TV -- had a kidney-stone attack a bit after midnight. We just got home from Kaiser about an hour ago. Everybody's fine, but we didn't get much sleep.)
Here's hoping the new Pope isn't a dickhead.
JD Vance has been a Catholic for less than six years, and he’s already been smacked down by TWO Popes.