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oh yeah...it dawned on me that one year ago today S and i departed for spain, cashing in some of those frequent-flyer miles - what a damned difference a year makes! i loved england, i loved paris (barring the food poisoning), and i loved japan (although i don't really count those as being "vacations"), but the spanish trip was just so, i don't know
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wow, i'm honestly surprised that anyone would recommend my writing to others! color me bone-white with a bright shade of pink around my cheeks...
my "clever"ness? i thought it was funny to give pope john paul the nickname "it is as it was", seeing as how the last media-significant thing he did before dying was to supposedly claim "it is as it was" when he saw the passion of the christ - it fed the flames of that whole anti-semitic controversy and the vatican quickly claimed that he didn't say it or it was taken out of context or something like that...
and the catholic rodney bingenheimer comment? you remember rodney, right, "rodney on the roq", the subject of that whole mayor of the sunset strip documentary? the eternal teenage in LA who's hobnobbed with all of the superstars? i made the reference because the toledo cathedral was crammed full of paintings by renowned masters and religious artifacts and signatures and such - it was similar to rodney's house tour in the movie...
sign #1 that you're not as clever as you think: when you have to explain to others what makes you so freakin' clever...
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I saw that "Mayor of Sunset Strip" movie, but I totally forgot the guy's name already, and I certainly did not remember the tour of his house. Man, my memory for movies sucks. Or is very selective. What one person notices, another does not, I guess.
But... now that you've explained it? Hey, that's VERY clever. :D
Seriously.
Yes, I recommended your journal. Of course. It's quite good. In a culturally exclusive sort of way. Am I calling you elitist? *gasp*
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