Casting call!

In the made-for-TV Iraq war movie,

Paul Bremer will be played by William Devane.

Any other suggestions?

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CL bracing for Hurricane Isabel

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.

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I fell into a purgatorial fire…

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.

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Today’s snarky tip for pastors

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.

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