Thursday, October 03, 2013

T'would be nice...

If I could doff the lead apron of gnawing anxiety that I medicate with sardonic humour and port.

Ah, well. Tough shit, as they say.


6 comments:

  1. I think I might be on a slightly tighter budget than you, and cut from a subtly different emotional cloth, so it's all stifled rage and cheap beer for me.

    Apropos, I saw a riff earlier today at a ritually unclean (i.e. less-than-wholly-pro-Francisian) blog on the W.C. Fields quip about the blond who drove him to drink: "Thank you for that much, at least, Pope Francis."

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  2. Yeah, well, it's off to the lambrusco shortly. Can't afford the port any more myself.

    Allow me to reassure you that fury is also a component of my weave, so to speak. Misery loves company?

    I'm gestating another couple of posts, so that will help, too.

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  3. Eeeeexcellent.

    I've got a longish post coming together.

    Cheers, and let's toast Pope Guido Sarducci!

    Eeyorishly,

    Commiserator née Codgitator

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  4. Oops, I don't know how to do pinpoint links in YouTube videos, but I meant starting just before 2:00. A prophecy of the Pope's next "off the cuff" "encounter"?

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  5. I got it: http://ebougis.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/live-feed-of-popes-latest-general-audience/

    Meanwhile, check out the church-lady foot-stamping by malcolm in this post of mine: http://ebougis.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/a-leading-prelate-weighs-in-on-pope-franciss-latest-statements-on-good-and-evil/#comments

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