All Poped Out

As we all know, the pope died recently. This is a loss for the world, as he was a pretty good pope. Did alot to help things like the Fall of Communism, and the ostricization of Homosexuals from the Catholic Church. Hmmm.... I guess we're not all perfect.

Well, "why are you talking about the pope" you might wonder. I'm a fairly Liberal guy. I'm technically Roman Catholic, but I think I'm more of a Hatchings-Matchings-Dispatchings kind of church go-er. Births, Weddings, and Funerals are about all the events that get me into a church. So Its a bit odd for me to make a post about the pope.

I was in Chapters the other day reading the magazines while Krista was in a job interview. Every magazine on the shelf was plastered with pictures of the pope, images and stories of his life, and just general news coverage of the whole event. I think that if you properly arranged all the magizines, ther would actually be a way to spell out POPE in big letters with his pictures. There was one noticable exception to this rule. The Canadian Edition of Time magizine had a rag-tag bunch of post-teen punks on the cover. Consequently, they were the band "The Arcade Fire", not a bad band if you are into the funky indie rock scence, but I must question thier ability to trump the death of the Pope.

I checked the date on the cover, and it was April 4th. several days after the pope-al passing. What was the editor of that magazine thinking ? Really, what could trump the pope checking out? Maybe another faux-pas from George Bush, but other than that I think the pope-card needs to be played.

Anyways, I'm rambling now. Time to get back to my Blue Star.