BPloG

Checking in . . .

It's been weeks since my last post - time flies when you're having fun (and when you are working long hours).

Bouyea Bachelor Party in Baltimore this weekend, as you Bowdoin folks are no doubt aware. What a catastrophe this is going to be. A celebration 10 years in the making. Somebody get the bail money on standby.

After a rough start, the Mets are fighting their way back to respectability. I know there are a lot of strikes against this team, but I wouldn't count them out. If the offense clicks, there is no limit to how many runs this group can score. Pitching would just need to be decent (which, so far, it has been).

And, for the record, I still have not found myself grieving for the Pope. Perhaps that makes me a bad Catholic (though there are probably a host of items that make me a bad Catholic (get it? host? Sorry)), but I just cannot bring myself to be too sad about the death of a guy who was very old, very much ready to die (if you believe the reports), and by all accounts had a rich and full life (even despite the lack of the obvious). I'm not going to get started here on whether he was a good guy or a bad guy (though I lean towards good, just old-fashioned), but suffice it to say I think that the tears and prostration that we see from some people on television may have more to do with their own issues and ostentatiousness then with any real sorrow at the Pope's passing.

That's just my opinion - no offense to anyone who was truly sad. In fact, I'd be interested in hearing about it if you were, because it's difficult for me to understand.

posted by Brian G. @ 10:14 AM