I warned you on Monday that my life runs on West Coast Time. It’s only 9:15-ish here, so as far as I’m concerned I’m at work bright and early. Unlike the Andrew of old, I can’t stay up until 2 AM writing for a whole host of reasons (kid, responsibilities, VH1). So I’m sorry about the noonishness of my first posts today… but, hey, you were warned.
-posted by Dan.
ONLINE COFFEE COMPANIES: I’m coming to you live this AM from Fuel Coffee, a great new independent coffee place in my neighborhood in Seattle. Despite being Starbucks hometown, there’s always a new coffee place opening in Seattle-places with character, individuality, and, as in the case of Fuel, real design sense. Like Victrola, where I was working yesterday, Fuel has a website. I find this kind of baffling. Websites for coffeeshops? Why? What’s the point? Dunno. But if you’re just dying to get a glimpse of the spot where I’m drinking tea RIGHT NOW (black, no sugar), check out Fuel’s website.
-posted by Dan.
HEADLINE OF THE DAY: Is our children learning? Not in Kansas:
“Kansas Board Backs Limits on Evolution” -NYT
So that’s what’s the matter with Kansas. I have a policy proposal: Anyone who doesn’t believe in evolution shouldn’t enjoy the benefits of evolution. No eyes, no walking upright, no opposable thumbs. It’s back to the primordial ooze for members of the Kansas Board of Education.
-posted by Dan.
MY SECRET SHAME: A confession: I had three beers last night. For most Irish Catholics this would not be a big deal. My brother Billy pours three beers over his cornflakes in the morning. But I am the freak of the family-not for THAT, that subject that I shall not touch on today. I’m the only lightweight in Savage family. Three beers on Tuesday night means a wicked hangover on Wednesday morning. Oh, and the bar I was drinking in? They have a website too.
-posted by Dan.
THE PERILS OF HETEROSEXUALITY: Whew! It looks like there’s at least one straight Catholic priest out there. From today’s NYT:
A Westchester county man claims… that the rector of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Midtown has been having an affair with his wife, the rector’s longtime personal secretary…. The man, Philip DeFilippo, says that his wife, Laura DeFilippo, and the rector, Msgr. Eugene V. Clark, have taken many vacations together, spent many weekends at Monsignor Clark’s house on the South Fork of Long Island and exposed the couple’s teenage daughter to their romantic relationship.
Mr. DeFilippo showed reporters a videotape of his wife and the Msgr. Clark “entering and leaving the White Sands Resort Hotel in Amagansett.” Mrs. DeFilippo, according to Mr. DeF, told him that she was sorting books that day at a storage facility 30 miles away.
Msgr. Clark-33 years older than Mrs. DeFilippo-denies everything. But Catholic priests no longer enjoy the benefit of the doubt when it comes to alleged sexual misconduct.
Amusingly enough, Msgr. Clark once gave a homily that pinned the blame for the Catholic sex-abuse scandals on “American immorality.”
If the past is any prologue, Msgr. Clark can expect to be transferred to another post any day now-most likely to a Catholic girls’ school.
-posted by Dan.
ASK FOR THE CELIBACY SUITTE: The White Sands Resort Hotel in Amagansett has a website too.
-posted by Dan.
The Dish 