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bert from sesame street talking on a cell phone Alt: Bert from "Sesame Street" holds a banana like a phone. Bert is a Muppet and is yellow with a pointy head with a bit of black hair, a black unibrow, and oval orange nose. He is wearing a white shirt and a sweater with vertical yellow and brown pinstripes. His subtitle is "Hello?" The quality of audio on the banana is unclear.

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Archbishop Caccia has a long career as a diplomat for the Vatican, having been appointed to serve Lebanon, the Philippines, and the United Nations. Congratulations to Caccia on his appointment and happy retirement to Cardinal Christophe Pierre.

Next update in two weeks.

The apostolic nuncio is a key person in the process of appointing bishops, and just over half of current US bishops were appointed under Pierre as apostolic nuncio. I outlined where the apostolic nuncio fits into the appointment process in a series of posts last May. bsky.app/profile/nopl...

Also, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States Cardinal Christophe Pierre's retirement from that position was announced yesterday; he will be succeeded by current permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations Archbishop Gabriele Caccia. Pierre held that position for just under 10 years.

Catholic Bishops of the United States

No new appointments but one new installation on the spreadsheet of US Catholic bishops at docs.google.com/spreadsheets... :

-Congratulations to Bishop Manuel de Jesús Rodriguez on his installation as Bishop of Palm Beach, and happy retirement to Bishop Emeritus Gerald Barbarito.

Sounds like an unproduced Gottfried Kolditz film...

Which is exactly what my wife said when I read the above comment, but before reading yours, and that gets you a deserved follow.

My wife immediately noted a theremin isn't on either list as well. Are there battery-powered ones, or do you need a really long extension cord?

Nothing here banning cellos, so if you're a cello player, go for it!

At that time, I was living in Buffalo, so driving with my not-as-interested wife to Rochester to see the Twins' AAA affiliate was definitely a step down from your experiences, even at the Metrodome...

Ah, finding true love while experiencing the talents of Lew Ford and Nick Punto...

A picture of me in October 2001 on my wedding day. I have dark short hair parted on the right and held in place by an alarming amount of hairspray that came off in the shower in milky white droplets that evening. I'm wearing eyeglasses with metal frames that are kind of square but with rounded corners. The tuxedo has the classic white shirt and black jacket and I'm also wearing a boutonnière of white and gold autumn flowers and my bow tie and pocket square are a dark forest green complimenting my bride's dress. (She started making the dress long before Princess Fiona made it hip.)

I'll have to go with the cliché rented wedding tux, but this is the best my often-disorganized hair has ever looked. My best man brother used hair spray to stabilize it, and the bottle said 3 to 5 sprays. I stopped counting at 26. Sorry if my wedding caused climate change, but we're still together.

Helping out the Russian economy by buying old film stock they seized from Germany after 1945 is a definite choice on this administration's part...

At the Portland Pilots baseball game:

Batter: (hits foul ball behind stands into parking lot)

Joe Etzel Field audio system: (car crash noises)

Me: (quietly) "Longshot!"

(Yes, this is how my brain works. No refunds.)

#GoPilots

Hmm. Gore and Gephardt were Baptists, so the closest he might have gotten to Catholic would have been Dukakis, who was Greek Orthodox but came in a distant third in Illinois.

Could've been Paul Simon, who won the primary 42-32 over Jackson.

First DVD I ever bought. My fiancé had gotten me a DVD player for my birthday.

Super Golden Crisp (née Super Sugar Crisp) is the highest I've seen nowadays at a bit over 50%. My wife ate a bowl once and found it disturbingly addictive...

It's "Frau Holle" (1963), from the director of "Midnight Revue" (1962)

Dress code for the interview is casual to zilch...

It's probably best not to ask what you get free once the punch card is filled...

His first set of business cards said "frequent boinker," but he didn't hand those out much...

Tough call between either of them and a below-average radish, honestly...

Had to look below to see whether fucking was a verb or an adjective in this context, but honestly it works either way...

How I arrived on Bluesky

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He's not, he's blue! Adjust your TV!

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He might be more willing to wear it if it had a White Sox logo on it...

Yeah, but how many other military jets have an 8-track player in them? (Okay, they were aftermarket add-ons, but nonetheless...)

She's already running for governor, so she's going to be out of the House in January anyway.

Except for EV owners, but I suspect most of them already despise Trump anyway.