Saturdayis our godson's First Communion. There's a godparent breakfastFriday(45 minute drive that I'm happy to do both Friday and Saturday, but busy).Maybe now that Mini's home, I can run to the Catholic gift shop that's a stone's throw from my house, but closes at 3:00, so I...
Day 3: Our single day of cycling in Hanoi consisted of a visit to crowded cemeteries and rural pottery plants, the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum (closed Mondays and Fridays, unfortunately for us), the Ethnology Museum, the One Pillar Pagoda, and the Citadel. As with almost every meal on this tou...
to explain why she had bought my sandwich. I really didn’t care why, but it gave me a few minutes of her special attention, so I was quiet as she explained. She told me that she was a Catholic(天主教徒) and Catholics didn’t eat red meat on Fridays, they ate fish on Fridays....
Meat’s slice:Some of my favorite records ever have been “concept” records.Operation: Mindcrime,Misplaced Childhood,2112,Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes From a Memory,El Corazon; to name just a few of many. When it comes toThe Elder, my one sentence review of this album would simply be:Some ...
Indeed. In other news, Osama bin-Laden urged Americans to convert to Islam or die. Since forcible conversion has also been afavorite tactic of the Catholic Church, I believe this constitutes definitive proof that the Islamicist terror brigades are in thrall to the vile Papists of Rome, as wi...