The Pope in DC
Writing in the blog, such as it is, I’ve learned quite a bit about when I tend to write the best, with more fluidity and with more passion for the topic. I’m a morning person. Fueled by coffee, sunshine and lingering dreams from the night before, I can’t get the ideas out of my brain and onto my keyboard fast enough.
My day job is like, so getting in my way.
The Pope is giving Mass at the new Nationals Ballpark this morning and I think it says something that DC can’t get 22,000 people into the stadium to watch Lasting Milledge in the outfield but the Pope can get all 48,888 seats filled to standing room capacity. I’m hoping that the benevolence will somehow translate into the Nats winning more games. And I’m wondering if the opened concessions at Bens Chili Bowl, Boardwalk Fries and Dippin’ Dots.
When the last Pope died, I called a good friend of mine, a Catholic and the youngest of 9 kids and said “Dude, sorry about your Pope”. It’s become kind of a catch phrase between us with him texting me this week, “Dude, new Pope in town”. Then Bug texted me with “Who let the Pope out? Who? Who? Who? Who?” Because there is no protestant or secular equivalent to the Pope, I’m not sure we non-Catholics get it.
For one thing, I can’t understand a thing he says. If he spoke in Gangsta, maybe. But is accent is what? Italian? And he speaks what? Latin? I don’t know. Another thing is the clothing. I think maybe if he had on a backward-facing ball cap and a pair of jeans from the Gap- well he’d for sure be more comfortable, but I think he’d be more approachable. One more thing is that the Pope is always an old guy. This Pope just turned 81. EIGHTY ONE. My pseudo grandmother (the one who told me to get Lap Band) is only a few years older than that and she almost burned down her house last month with a microwave.
You can’t tell me that they let the Pope make his own microwave pop-corn… but they’ll let him lead the Catholic Church?
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