Remember when I used to post almost every day? That was awesome.
Okay. Last week was not so good. This week will be better. I hope.
Let's just do some random thoughts to get this going again:
1) Virtually nothing I was cheering for in the Oscars won, but it was almost worth the three-and-a-half hours I spent listening (mostly) and watching (partially) to the telecast for Errol Morris' opening. Fine, yes, I'm an Errol fanboy, but does anyone else think that his opening segment was the best possible five-minute film on such a stupid subject for a five-minute film ("why do you like film?" or something broad and lame like that)? Then again, any short film that references Ernest Goes to Jail followed by a fleeting (alas) argument of its greatness has a special place in my heart.
2) I was going to post on Thursday afternoon that I thought I would hit even par on my home disk golf course sometime in the next month. (My best score at the time was +2.) But I didn't, and of course, on Friday I got par. Today, I got +7. Eek.
3) I've written two bell pieces called "Lent Sadness" and "Easter Happiness." (The latter, of course, will premiere this Sunday.) But what shall I name my next piece? "Ordinary Time Mundaneness?"
4) I've mentioned before how bad these omnibus posts are, haven't I? Good.
5) After doing a great deal of reading on transubstantiation, I've decided that rather than transubstantiation being nonsensical that the difference between transubstantiationists and consubstantiationists is so minute as to be nonsensical. Both groups believe that a change has been made to the general properties of the bread and wine without a similar change to the taste, feel, and other physical properties of the bread. The difference, I think, is that transubstantiationists see these physical properties as auxiliary to the new property of the bread/wine (that it is the body/blood of Christ), and consubstantiationists see both the physical and the spiritual properties of the bread/wine/body/blood as equal.
Regardless, I doubt that even one in ten American Catholics has even a basic understanding of transubstantiation or has a basic understanding of the Church's beliefs but doesn't agree.
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There. Pretend I posted each of those things on one day last week.
oh so lovingly written by
Matthew |
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
