Palm Sunday

The Passion play today.

Father La Bonte’s (God rest his soul) replacement (or was he a guest priest?) had the 5:30 Mass; I did not catch his name. His Indian accent was thick, but not as thick as Fr. La Bonte’s was when he first came to us.
11:56:17 PM  #  comment []

Spoken in an outrageous French accent:

We wanted the characters to have real depths. Of course, it’s kind of stupid, whacky, cartoony depths...

(Host’s gratuitous remarks on the character of the French deleted)
11:35:07 PM  #  comment []

This is all approximate, from this morning:

Blitzer to Christine Amanpour: I understand that you can’t get out, but what is the looting situation there?

Amanpour: Well, we have been out, and we have witnessed along with reporters from other stations [emphasis mine —Ed.] some of the...

I believe that that’s going to be an oft-repeated phrase over at CNN for quite a while, anywhere they report in a repressive regime, eh?
3:32:15 PM  #  comment []

Is anyone blogging the People’s Poetry Gathering? I’ve let my Poets House membership lapse yet again, and forgot to check up on this.
1:09:31 AM  #  comment []

They walk among us

Deep in the recesses of the human heart, lurking guiltily beneath the threshold of consciousness, there may lie a depraved craving for the taste of human flesh. By Nicholas Wade. [by way of New York Times: National]

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