tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post3872927230071247750..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: #3 - The Sadness Of NPR ChristmasAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-49224527090599868002019-12-25T21:36:26.658-05:002019-12-25T21:36:26.658-05:00Comment #3: It's NPR. Don't trust it, do...Comment #3: It's NPR. Don't trust it, don't believe it.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-381162519020290672019-12-21T16:36:10.351-05:002019-12-21T16:36:10.351-05:00Father Emil of "Our Lady of Perpetual Respons...Father Emil of "Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility" parish was likely the priest. Pastor David Ingkvist was married (to Judy Ingkvist, I think) so that doesn't match. But they did converse at times, rather secretively on both their parts. I don't remember that episode, but Father Emil brought out some very good liquor on one occasion, which Pastor Ingkvist admired, noting that he didn't dare go to the liquor store except around Christmas, when he might pass it off as a gift, even though it was far away. Father Emil noted that the bottle was a gift from one of Pastor Ingkvist's parishioners "who sometimes comes around for a second opinion." He recommended finding a few people who wouldn't mind bringing a bottle around for him discretely from time to time. <br /><br />Yes, he wanted nothing more than to escape the people of his childhood - he was raised in a Brethren sect that was on the fundamentalist/evangelical boundary - but also loved them, and it shows.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-7965392273619141682019-12-21T15:07:23.402-05:002019-12-21T15:07:23.402-05:00I enjoyed PHC, but can't pinpoint when. Perha...I enjoyed PHC, but can't pinpoint when. Perhaps it was the late 1980s. There was a sweet-natured story about the uneasy rivalry between the Lutheran pastor and the Catholic priest, both bachelors, in which they carefully find some common ground and, I think, spend Christmas together. In that story or a related one there's a throwaway line about the town's suspicion that the Lutheran pastor is "soft on Catholicism." The narrator didn't obviously hate anyone. It's a shame he turned into a bitter old man.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-90625707013922800942018-12-14T18:59:07.922-05:002018-12-14T18:59:07.922-05:00I stopped listening to PHC circa 2001, when I tire...I stopped listening to PHC circa 2001, when I tired of the repeat shows that repeated shows of three months ago. Why couldn't they repeat a show from 10 years ago? Regarding Garrison Keillor going into snark mode, I decided to listen to a Dubya-era show, to see how snarky it was. <a href="https://www.prairiehome.org/shows/56987.html" rel="nofollow">December 15, 2007 broadcast with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and The Boys of the Lough.</a> The show was broadcast from NYC. I found gentle humor directed at both NYC and flyover country. Though as some have pointed out, if you wanted to see Garrison Keiller in snark mode, his newspaper columns would suffice. I certainly found his columns snarky.RichardJohnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07490819511630683969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-47770540181610232562018-12-12T07:28:47.474-05:002018-12-12T07:28:47.474-05:00Quit listening to Keillor once I figured out that ...Quit listening to Keillor once I figured out that he really hated the people he was talking about. The mocking got more obvious, or I got older.Tom Bridgelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13098048586042365606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-21439898860989860662018-12-11T14:47:59.330-05:002018-12-11T14:47:59.330-05:00This is why I have abandoned both Keillor and NPR,...This is why I have abandoned both Keillor and NPR, in part. The rest is Keillor's snarkiness and the lefty politics of both.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-26533211711565705162018-12-11T12:39:37.833-05:002018-12-11T12:39:37.833-05:00I am not impressed with the Unitarian pastors asse...<i>I am not impressed with the Unitarian pastors assertions, BTW, though she does seem like a nice enough person. What Unitarians were like 150-200 years ago is irrelevant to today, far more so than with churches with more stable doctrine.</i><br /><br />For example, <i>RevCyn</i> informs us about all the Christmas carols that UUs wrote. How many UUs would today enthusiastically embrace the religious parts of the lyrics of those songs? I, for one, would not be surprised that a lot of UUs in 2018 would like to scrub out the religious parts of those UU-written Christmas carols.<br /><br /> <br />Quoting UUs provides sufficient material for mocking them. That is what upsets <i>RevCyn.</i> <br /><br />For example, some of the UU jokes implied that UUs were more concerned with politics than they were with theology. Alternate description: for UUs, current political stances define their theology. (I write "current" to point out these stances are continually changing. Or as they would say- "evolving.")<br /><br /><i>RevCyn</i> doesn't exactly refute the assertion about the importance of politics for UUs with the following post. <a href="http://revcyn.blogspot.com/2018/02/resistance-renewal.html" rel="nofollow"> Resistance, Renewal....Meanwhile, this doodle is a year old -- but the need for resistance continues.</a>RichardJohnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07490819511630683969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-79365479525861981602016-11-10T06:44:13.628-05:002016-11-10T06:44:13.628-05:00Enjoying their Schweddy Balls...Enjoying their Schweddy Balls...dwboschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08168690181256469094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-87521195422272161362012-12-24T12:20:35.750-05:002012-12-24T12:20:35.750-05:00Some want only a miniscule little bit of Christmas...Some want only a miniscule little bit of Christmas.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-23534229168109665212012-12-22T23:49:31.793-05:002012-12-22T23:49:31.793-05:00Or they're tools to find balance or encouragem...Or they're tools to find balance or encouragement: "We need a little Christmas"jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.com