Update: APRIL FOOL!! You didn’t fall for it, did you? I mean, come on, Pigs in Space? You’re not getting rid of me that easily. The idea for this came to me last fall sometime and I put it in my calendar to remind me. Did you read the title of this post carefully? I’m particularly proud of that. I wonder how many people won’t be coming back because they believed me.
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As of today, April 1, 2006, I am announcing a radical change for this blog. As you may have noticed at the top of this page, I am changing the focus of the blog from Church news to Science Fiction.
I’m tired of writing every day about the same old stuff: bad bishops, pervert priests, social re-engineering.
Instead, I’m now going to blog only about Science Fiction: TV shows, movies, books, you name it. I’ll cover Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica (old and new), Space: 1999, Pigs in Space, the whole gamut.
I hope you like the new blog as much as you liked the old one.
You know you’re Catholic if Yoda’s invocation “May the force be with you” elicits from you an automatic response “And also with you.”
Or “And with your spirit” for those of us who’ve been to a mass with a decent translation of the Latin.
Dom,
Are you backing the cannonization of L. Ron Hubbard?
JBP
I hope you don’t go schizoid if you review the religious science-fictrion book” “A Canticle for Lebowitz.” (Or am I mixing this up with “The Big Lebowski??”)
Wait—you mean, you were just kidding?
Melanie put you up to this, didn’t she…?
GOR <——-still trying to clean his coffee off the keyboard…:)
After the massive April Fools joke that Fr. Roderick pulled, I am not the least gullible today.
Though if it was true you would be competing with Jimmy Akin.
Does anyone have an e-mail address for the good bishop?
Or will we have to break down and use real paper’n’stuff?
I’m sorry, but you can’t beat Slashdot today. And they have been going at it since 6 PM yesterday. Just check it out, it’s worth it.
http://slashdot.org/
Yours in Christ,
~G
Oops.
That question about Bishop Bruskewitz’s address is no April Fools joke – just a plain ol’ goof up.
Thank you Dom! Its about time we focused on what *really* matters in life; lightsabers, spice, inverse tachyon beams, flux-capacitors, Gort, psychohistory, grok what I’m saying?
In case you decide to go back… here’s a great topic which covers both blog themes…
“Do aliens need to be saved?”
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/35/story_3519.html
May the Force be with you.
– Dan
I did not put him up to it. I can attest this idea came to Dom months ago… last fall at least. I actually just shook my head when he told me his plan.
Piiiiiiiigs iiiiiiiin Spaaaaaaaaace!!!!
Actually, it would make a nice change every now and then.
Richard: “If a cylon (new series, not classic) got into a fight with a T-1000, who would win? And would a USCCB subcommittee issue a white paper deploring the resulting violence?”
The new series would win. But it would be nasty. And there would be a white paper that would be cited as doctrine by progressive Catholics for the next 40 years, even though it was non-binding.
I only wish I was more incensed. They don’t use enough of it at my parish. ;^) Maybe they should “spice” it up?
Hey, I could really get used to this . . .
Thanks to everyone for their sense of humor. A lot of good comments.
Padziernik: Oh that Space 1999. Have you watched it recently? I loved it as a kid, but it’s so bad now.
Scifi does sometimes cover religious themes, or at least asks them, so this joke is not too far off. On TV at least, Babylon 5 may be the first sci fi series—written by an atheist!—to recognize that the religious impulse is intrinsic to human nature and maintain that respectful recognition through its entire run. Its “Passing through Gethsemane” episode was remarkably sympathetic to Catholicism.
I’m just curious about how much time went into redecorating the blog template for this little joke? (Enjoy it now. Next year you’ll have other duties to keep you busy, won’t he Melanie?)
Actually, I spent about five minutes on it. I looked up a starfield image on the NASA web site and changed it in Photoshop. I did have more elaborate plans, but ran out of time.
sorry that I missed the graphics!
When you grew up a devotee of the original Star Trek, none of this modern stuff fills the bill.
Now we could talk about “Millennium,” I suppose. Anyone here watch that program in the late 90s?
That’s how you knew it was an April Fool!
“But – but, don’t you know, you can’t do Sci Fi if you don’t do Firefly (and Serenity)!?!”
I heartily agree. Dom and I actually did a Firefly marathon with my sister when we were in Texas with my family for the Christmas, New Year, and Epiphany holidays. We watched all the DVDs (at least once—some we watched a couple of times after my brother walked in and wanted to start from the beginning) and then went out and bought Firefly and watched that.
Then when we got back to Massachusetts we bought our own set.
So you can count us in as big fans.