| Friday, September 23, 2005 |
 | Priest seeks to advertise priesthood by dressing as Neo from the Matrix - not, to be blunt, a huge aesthetic distinction. Apparently he got the idea from watching a revue skit at the U.S Seminary in Rome, in which a group of seminarians batlled Satan in a series of, and I quote, "mock martial-arts confrontations".
Oh, those seminarians. It's amazing how many of them lose their faiths and become homicide detectives reluctantly drawn into a war between angels when they have crazy fun like that.
Nagraj vs. Shakoora the Magician, featuring Superman, Batman and Spider-Man. It goes largely without saying that Superman is a dick pretty much whenever he is not paralysed by magic. Whether he's failing totally to prevent massive property damage, committing cold-blooded murder, calling a dwarf "dwarfy", selling out his friends to the evil magician for no reason beyond colossal stupidity, he's an all-you-can-eat buffet of dickery throughout. If you can work out whether Lou Albano is supposed to be the wrestler Lou Albano, or just an Indian circus ringmaster called Lou Albano, and if you can further work out which of these options is more bewilderingly demoralising, give me a shout.
The evolution of nominally Chinese food in New York's restaurants.
Rubber masks with girls' faces. Really not sure how this is supposed to make me feel, except for "inclined to surf with images turned off".
2 Comments:
Oh Venusberg, you're not still bashing priests?? How many seminarians do you actually know? I have known 4 or 5 at least, and they all went on to be the most amazingly whole characters, despite the hardships of their chosen profession. Heaven only knows why anyone would want to become one, but that's another story.
I know a fair few priests, but I'm a little old to hang out with seminarians. However, I see no priest-bashing whatsoever here. I see a suggestion that a skit in which seminarians battle Satan using kung-fu moves is unlikely to be a masterpiece. Also that having a priest pose as Neo simply because the outfits are similar may not be the best way to recruit the brightest and best to Catholicism, especially given the fact that the only thing that has fallen further and harder than Satan in recent years has been the brand equity of the Matrix franchise.
The hard-bitten detective bit is, of course, a reference to the superb and doctrinally sound work The Prophesy, in which Elias Koteas, assailed by a vision of the war in Heaven as he is about to ascend to priesthood, drops out and becomes instead a tough-talking homicide detective, the natural course of action for all abortive prelates.
If we want to bash priests we could start with HHPBXVI's new and exciting attitude to t3h gay, but if you find the above unacceptable it seems unlikely that we'd get very far.
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