Neanderpundit

No, it did not suck. no, you don’t, and we will be here, waiting, when you (Hopefully) come back again.

There will be a new Pope.

He will put on thered leather fisherman’s shoes made just for him by Stefanelli. He will be taken to a room called the Room of Tears, where he will take off his red vestments and put on the white vestments of the Holy Father.

This will be the fifth time in my life when this has happened. I have no illusions as to what the Church is, but I have always had respect for the Holy Father. And we have had some really magnificent ones; Julius II who lasted only ten years was a serious warrior,if you’ve ever seen “The Agony and the Ecstacy” he’s played brilliantly by Rex Harrison, imagine the Pope in armor climbing down, bloodied, off a horse, to approve Michaelangelo’s sketches for the Sistene Chapel.

Lord, give us another Julius II. We need one so badly.

On broadcast are pretty good too, I love the old Julia Child reruns and Jacques Pepin is awesome.

But I gotta tell you..

Christina Pirello is a pustule on cooking in general. Hey, I don’t care if you buy into that whole macrobiotic whole vegan food bullshit, some people also think Obama is a good president. I watch as this horsefaced old cur with no waist and no ass, like a middle aged manin a bowling alley, only lacking the monogrammed pinstriped shirt, and i think to myself, if this is what you get from being a vegan, count me out. And the skeletal, sickly sycophants in the audience oohing and aahing at each faux cheese recipe or catshit looking garden burger fried in hemp oil (I’m not making that up) it makes me want to hurl. If I live fifteen fewer years than any of them, I will consider myself to have lived twenty years better. Who gives this freak a TV show? Especially knowing that (As she says herself) she became a vegetarian just to piss off her father the butcher. Sorry, honey, the “Stick it to daddy” tantrum has outasted it’s cuteness.

I guess public television has to cater to it’s base.