sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2013-02-28 11:45 am

Dead ones and the living

I slept twenty minutes last night and all of them were nightmares. I write this e-mail from a dentist's office in Davis Square, where after an hour [livejournal.com profile] derspatchel is finally being seen for the filling that disintegrated on Monday night (it is that kind of week). I appear to have just watched the Pope abdicate on CNN. I've had better-starting mornings.

(Probably so has the Pope, but I bet he isn't tired enough to hallucinate movement in the brickwork across the street.)

[edit] I still really keep hoping for an antipope. I know it's not going to happen. I'm just saying.
aedifica: Partial view of a mosaic of the Pater Noster in Latin (Pater noster)

[personal profile] aedifica 2013-02-28 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
You could join the sedevacantists, and then the new Pope would *be* an anti-pope...

[identity profile] snowy-owlet.livejournal.com 2013-02-28 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Good lord, this WEEK. This MONTH.

Is it too late to hide under something? I'll bring blankets if you'll bring muffins.

[identity profile] snowy-owlet.livejournal.com 2013-03-01 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Beg pardon. I guess February has me a bit tetchy.

Muffin?

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2013-02-28 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
If the bricks get up to anything especially interesting, I hope you'll let us know. Maybe you and [livejournal.com profile] derpsatchel can go for bubble tea after he gets done having the filling replaced.

[identity profile] nineweaving.livejournal.com 2013-02-28 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Good gravy. Maybe what your karma needed was an ex-pope? I certainly hope that your bad luck goes with him. May the white smoke go up: Habemus fortunam!

Nine

[identity profile] schreibergasse.livejournal.com 2013-03-03 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
sporrfle

[identity profile] rose-lemberg.livejournal.com 2013-02-28 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
And again I say onto you: ARGH

*hugs*

[identity profile] eglantine-br.livejournal.com 2013-02-28 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Wishing a quiet evening of snacks, sweatpants and fuzzy slippers-- for you, and for the pope.

[identity profile] ethelmay.livejournal.com 2013-02-28 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
The pope gets fuzzy slippers WITH TEETH. On the inside.

[identity profile] lauradi7.livejournal.com 2013-02-28 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
A Vatican spokesperson yesterday carefully clarified that the Pope (that was) doesn't get to keep the red shoes, which are apparently official pope-wear. No fuzzy slippers were mentioned.

[identity profile] marlowe1.livejournal.com 2013-02-28 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
One gargoyle coming to life for a pope abdication. Is that too much to ask?

[identity profile] rinue.livejournal.com 2013-02-28 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I know! There was video of his helicopter flying over the Colosseum, and a demon or titan or sandworm did not erupt from its ancient maw and do battle with the helicopter.

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2013-02-28 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry for your lack of sleep and [livejournal.com profile] derspatchel's dental issue.

I hope matters will improve soon, at least a bit, for both of you.

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2013-03-01 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
Most welcome.

If it's any consolation, there are already at least a couple of anti-popes out there. There's David Bawden AKA Pope Michael I, who apparently lives outside of Topeka, and there's Sergio MarĂ­a AKA Gregory XVIII of the Palmarian Catholic Church, who lives in Murcia, Spain. I expect there are others, but those were the first two that came up when I looked around on the internet.

There's some sort of a schismatic Tridentine Mass group with a chapel not far from me, but alas they're sedevacantists* and only have a bishop, albeit an irregularly consecrated one, rather than an antipope. Perhaps they will choose to be more amusing soon?

*Believing there is no current pope--I suspect Pius XII is the last one they find acceptable.
Edited 2013-03-01 01:43 (UTC)
gwynnega: (John Hurt Raskolnikov 2)

[personal profile] gwynnega 2013-02-28 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Yikes. I hope you get better sleep (and better dreams) tonight.

[identity profile] moon-custafer.livejournal.com 2013-03-01 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
So, I assume the college of cardinals will keep things ticking over until they elect a new pope, but is one of them the official senior official in the meantime? And do the other cardinals go "Whee! Substitute Pope!" and throw paper airplanes at him when his back is turned?

A girl can dream, can't she?

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2013-03-01 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
And do the other cardinals go "Whee! Substitute Pope!" and throw paper airplanes at him when his back is turned?

I only wish I thought any of them had a sufficient sense of humour to do this. I've known priests who might have done, and even an archbishop, but alas none of them have been given a red biretta.

[identity profile] moon-custafer.livejournal.com 2013-03-01 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
I like to think some saints might have. Particularly Francis; Lawrence was supposed to have had a sense of humour, as well. I don't know if either of them could make paper airplanes, though. When did paper-airplane/dart technology develop?

[identity profile] ethelmay.livejournal.com 2013-03-01 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Paper darts were around in the 18th century. There is a story of schoolboys lodging them in their schoolmaster's wig. "The culprit was inftantly fummoned, and made no other defence, than that they flipt out of his hand, and he did not go to do it."

[identity profile] schreibergasse.livejournal.com 2013-03-03 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
but alas none of them have been given a red biretta.

This is why we wish Leonard Boyle had been willing to accept one, and NOT gotten himself into a fundraising scandal... Other people throw paper darts in the classroom. Boyle used to throw manuscripts. (Though to be fair, I think it was just charters; and they're not rare, and relatively indestructible.)
Edited 2013-03-03 13:56 (UTC)

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2013-03-04 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
This is why we wish Leonard Boyle had been willing to accept one, and NOT gotten himself into a fundraising scandal...

Agreed. This is the first I'd heard of him, and I'm wondering how I can find out more. Thanks!

antipope

[identity profile] ratatosk.livejournal.com 2013-03-01 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
This icon will have to do.