Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Your internet connection goes down for a few hours and the next thing you know they've done elected a brand new Pope. Jesus.
Speaking of which, until quite recently, the Fat Asian Baby, in extraordinary ignorance of all things Christian, thought the Pope was supposed to be like related to God somehow, kinda like the new Jesus or something. So I never really understood the whole papal election process unless it was something akin to the way they identify the new Dalai Lama. But then again we were pretty sure the Catholics weren't all up into the reincarnation diddy, so we were frankly baffled. But after the spate of Pope-related news surrounding John Paul II's death, it's all starting to make sense now. I mean, inasmuch as grown men dressed in red velvet capes and yamulkes hiding out in a secret lair to discuss TOP SECRET THINGS for days on end only to be freed again by sending off color coded smoke signals into the sky can possibly make a lot of sense.
On a tangentially related topic, FAB went to pick up some much-needed items at Kroger yesterday. And by much needed, we mean seltzer, tomato sauce, ham, cheese, fake crab meat, and matzah. Fortunately this is Georgia so nobody thought it was the least bit weird when we piled the ham and package of shellfish-related product on top of the box of matzah at the checkout counter.
Speaking of which, until quite recently, the Fat Asian Baby, in extraordinary ignorance of all things Christian, thought the Pope was supposed to be like related to God somehow, kinda like the new Jesus or something. So I never really understood the whole papal election process unless it was something akin to the way they identify the new Dalai Lama. But then again we were pretty sure the Catholics weren't all up into the reincarnation diddy, so we were frankly baffled. But after the spate of Pope-related news surrounding John Paul II's death, it's all starting to make sense now. I mean, inasmuch as grown men dressed in red velvet capes and yamulkes hiding out in a secret lair to discuss TOP SECRET THINGS for days on end only to be freed again by sending off color coded smoke signals into the sky can possibly make a lot of sense.
On a tangentially related topic, FAB went to pick up some much-needed items at Kroger yesterday. And by much needed, we mean seltzer, tomato sauce, ham, cheese, fake crab meat, and matzah. Fortunately this is Georgia so nobody thought it was the least bit weird when we piled the ham and package of shellfish-related product on top of the box of matzah at the checkout counter.
