Amusements: September 2003 Archives

In the made-for-TV Iraq war movie,

Paul Bremer	will be played by	William Devane.

Radley "Yes, that is my real name" Balko has an article on NRO about the comeback of Opus from Bloom County. Entertaining read and a walk down memory lane. Not to cheapen it with a tired cliche or anything.

Update as of 9:41am Wednesday: A big, scary new hurricane path map.

The current path of Hurricane Isabel has it bearing down on the DC-area, where 60% of the CL contributors reside. Luckily, our in-house Canonist and our up-north Catholic Light-kateer* should be out of harm's way. And the Catholic Light network operations are within a weather-proof, bomb-proof, lunch-meat stocked network center in an undisclosed location. Much like VP Dick Cheney.

*That would be RC. RC - help me with a new nickname.

God bless Johnny Cash. If there was anybody in popular culture who so well expressed both the strength and misery of man, it was he.

At a ball game the other day shortly after he died (Chicago at Boston), the Fenway showmeisters saluted Cash during a break in the action by playing the tune from his hit "Ring of Fire". Sure, it was a popular song; it's a fun song. But with those lyrics? Let's think this one over, guys.

Don't let the p*rn film crew work unsupervised.

To start with, there's probably some rule against letting a fiction film be made inside a church. But if a pastor's going to ignore that and allow it anyway, he needs to watch over the filming and make sure the church isn't profaned to the extent that it needs a re-consecration.

Anyway, Father, the thing to do is just send these people to make their movies in a suitable non-Catholic church. Some of them look more like a Catholic church than some of ours do.

You can get anything you want these days in worship, and the suppliers of church goods are ready to make it possible. Why not have sealed individual Holy Communion packages? After all, you wouldn't want to receive from the same one cup and one bread as other people, would you? Better for everything to be perfectly sterile.

My Capuchin pal Bro. Matthew commented that a Mass using these things might not be valid, since the priest is supposed to say the words of institution over the elements, not over their packaging. And that's besides any problems about the grape juice.

I bet some evangelistic TV outfits would love these Communion Cups: they could mail 'em out to supporters and conduct the next monthly communion service through the Satellite Ministry. Would you put your Communion Cup in front of the TV set, brothers and sisters, while I pray the Prayer of Faith? What the heck: we could do it over the Internet!

Victor noticed this other product from the same company. I'm cuckoo for Eucha-Puffs!

Fr. Sibley wants to get a handy new high-tech item to help his parish finances, and now CWN reports that Peter's Pence will accept donations by credit card over the Internet. (Subscription required for full story.)

When the queues get too long at the donation machine, will Fr. appoint extraordinary teller ministers to help out?