Trips and Pics
| Ok, This is a sort of "Merlin's New Digs" post, and we'll return you to the regularly scheduled Potter Programming after. :) First, I should have brought the camera to campus today to take a pic of the place I am sitting in and writing. From 1990 to 1993 Pauli and I played in a band together, and the best paying gigs were colleges and universities because they had the money budgeted in to the programming budget (for building a following though, the bars and clubs were the core places for gigs) ... so, sometime in that stretch one of the places we played was the Ramskeller at Fordham ... and I am this very moment looking at the place I remembering setting up my equipment something like 13-15 years ago ... pretty funky experience (when we played here back then we were rocking in and out in no time, on the way to another gig, so it was all a blur back then, all I remember is what the room looked like and where we set up). PICTURES So, Here is inside my new bedroom from standing just inside the door ... a wee bit ... well, a wee bit wee (considering I brought my whole library) ... but I am making do, as you can see (my friend Dom has always noted my pentient for "verticality") I'll have to take one of the from of the building from the street soon.  Here is what you can buy at the deli down on the corner, a small place packed with everything from beer to laundry detergent ... and Saint Candles (I grabbed St Jude, for lost causes :) )  This below is a shot (sorry for the sideways, couldn't figure how to get blogger to spin it) of the paper they hand out where I went to Mass Sunday ...  More to come in the future. And also getting back to the matter of Potter discussion :) |
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Merlin said ... (September 03, 2006 6:14 PM)
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Merlin said ... (September 04, 2006 8:04 PM)
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post a commentLooks very cozy, Merlin. You might want to look for a St. Anthony candle because I suspect you'll have difficulty finding things in your room. LOL
FWIW, the spelling is "penchant".
And I totally understand the living in small places situation -- except I'm trying to deal with another adult and 3 kids in a 2-bedroom apt in Queens. I think I have to get a couple St. Anthony candles, and if there saint-branded flashlights, a St. Jude flashlight might be helpful. ;)
The candles made me think of something funny. A few years ago on Open Book (back when it was In Between Naps), someone posted in the comments an exchange that had taken place in a chat room. Apparently a very fundamentalist type was criticizing Catholics for "worshipping" statues, and a Roman Catholic deacon who was participating answered that Catholics used to worship statues, by now we worship banners. I'm sure the deacon went on to explain that Catholics don't worship statues and banners, but it was so funny I've never forgotten it.
Of course, Merlin doesn't have that problem given that he's found a traditional Latin Mass.
If that's a traditional Latin Mass, why is the program in Italian?
It's not a Latin Mass ... haven't found an indult community up here yet ... it's from an Italian high Mass (homily and everything was in Italian ... no English except a visiting Dominican priest who was Nigerian but stationed out of Harrisburg and kind of "on tour" for fund raising, who spoke after the homily).
This is pretty wild ... I tried posting earlier today in the library but for some reason it was not working (had a comment on the issue of Spell casting with Felicity on the Spidey Snape post on that essay and lost the whole thing, cound't even get back to copy and paste to email myself with the content)... now I am sitting here in the laundromat on the internet while I do my laundry - they have an internet machine for $1/10 minutes - pretty wild compared to where I come from.
I was in Queens yesterday Meep - my buddy who came through by my mother's at like 6 am a few weeks ago and loaded my stuff into an empt cargo van he had rented on a return trip from Chicago delivering some of his stain glass work and took my stuff with him - he and his wife live in Queens so I had to pick my stuff up there last week (spent who knows how long driving around south of Queens Blvd trying to get on the blvd going east because Servix raod was washed out coming from the Grand Central) and I had been trying to hook up with him and his wife and their 1 yr old son all week (had a mishap getting on the wrong train and walked around Greenwich Village forver trying to find the place we were meeting, cel battery had died and completely missed them). They're moving to DC in a few weeks so I wanted to get some time hanging out with them.
So yesterday I went out there and hung out with them. Thought I might also meet up with another friend who lives in Forest Hills and works for the Brooklyn diocese but she had some other stuff come up. Stopped in Queen of Martyrs Church around 4 pm to see if there might be confessions but was a few hours late. It was fun hanging out in Queens though - I hung out with them there for New Year's this past year ... they live near the Van Wyck stop on the E line.
Anyway, I will have to get some more pics from around here up, some great murals and stuff in the Church on campus and in that Italian Church. And I'll have to get the content back up of what I was talking bout with Felicity on the other post.
Checking to see if it's done drying yet,
Merlin
Oh, well now you know I'm illiterate. You're a real smartie-parts, Meep.
Merlin, try St. Agnes near Grand Central. They used to have one every Sunday IIRC.
I can't even spell now. Fine.
Felicity,
thanks for the tip on St Agnes ... I will have to check it out.
And St Anthony is definitely on my list ... but the bedroom situation has gotten better since I figured out the bed ... meaning that it can go up, the headboard and footboard have tracks with props in them so you can heve the platform up at the top rather than down low, which opened up much more storage under the bed and thus more floor space ... still plenty of room in the bins under the bed and table to misplace stuff though :)