Notes.

For those wondering about my porch, everything's fine. The patio is a mess with mud, though.

The rain stopped the other day, just in time for me to get a bunch of packages, including the entire series of Cowboy Bebop from Amazon, three official bootlegs and a signed vinyl record from Stew, and my only valentine of the season, from shadesong.

I'll write more about these things, but now it's time for me to leave the office after thumb-twiddling for about eight hours.

SunNYTX: 23. El-em-en-tary, for the right person. I am obviously not of the right age group to appreciate the crossing of 23A & 4D.

Unclean getaway.

As a footnote to an earlier discussion, the St. Cyril who is the patron saint of the parish where I just attended Mass lived a century before the St. Cyril that aussie_nyc referred to, who lived about four hundred years before the St. Cyril I was talking about.

I hope that clears everything up.

There was a good lector at Mass. He had a slightly whimsical tone in a rather unusually redundant first reading:

"The one who bears the sore of leprosy
shall . . . cry out, 'Unclean, unclean!'
As long as the sore is on him he shall declare himself unclean,
since he is in fact unclean."

I almost thought a Python would appear to say "Clean is right out!"

Unfortunately, the priest tends to get a little rambly in his homily. Let me see if I can reconstruct an excerpt, which some how sprang from the theme of a Christan attitude toward outcasts:

We can't all be like Mother Teresa and pick people out of the gutter. Actually, I tried picking someone out of the gutter, once. Because he was having an epileptic fit. And he cussed me out. So, personally, I haven't had too much luck with that. Although, once, I picked up a drunk of of my balcony when I was in an apartment in West Hollywood and walked him down the stairs because he couldn't get up. That probably wasn't a very Christian thing to do. But I couldn't just let him lie there. My house keeper would have tripped over him.

And so on.

Anyway, I'd better get some food in me before I get a headache.