Yes, Lixo is inside tonight, sleeping soundly on my clean clothes. It’s too cold to foray outside in search of love.
Brazil is suffering a mass of polar air over the south of the country that has bought snow to more than 80 cities as far north as Curitiba. Some of these cities haven’t seen snow since the 1940s.
Pope, pope, pope… The news is full of the Pope.
So far the Pope has got lost, red faces everywhere ducking for cover. The popemobile complete with pope got caught in a traffic jam with buses.
The pope has kissed a baby.
Today the pope is resting.
Amusing to note that the political figures in Rio were proud of the money they had personally put up for the big pope party last night. I heard one figure of R$800,000, but it was all for nothing. Pope Francis true to form in renouncing riches, snubbed the party and left after the official bits were over. Leaving the political figures with bloodied noses. When I heard this, I laughed my socks off. Bunch of wankers!
I have now calculated the damages; I lose R$295.50 in wages because of this papal fiasco.
I was asked today by a devout Catholic about my views of the pope, I informed him that I wouldn’t walk across the road to see him. He was shocked beyond belief. I have the same view of any famous personage, politician, president, film star… I’d snub the bloody lot. Far too much bullshit in this world; not enough sharing and caring.
He was even further shocked when I asked him why we are here. His response to worship god was of course predictable. The moment of shock came when I negated his answer and said we are here to provide good compost and mulch for the planet.
An ignoble end, but that’s it; our destiny, regardless of our riches or poverty, is to compost the planet, just the same as the biggest animal, the prettiest flower, or the lowliest worm.
That was the end of the argument, he agreed that I had won the debate. Especially when I made the point that I would get closer to heaven regardless of differences in our piety, because I was fatter than he and therefore able to provide more compost.
I love teasing the devout.
News is about to start; can’t miss more pope, pope, pope…
Later
Life is but a Labyrinth 
>lakishajohnson, a repetiton of yesterday’s comment with a link amounts to spam, I have removed it for this reason.
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Loved this post for that is how I feel.What is the deal with “famous people? They can do nothing for us lowly peons so why bother fawning over any of them. The pope thing is all about ritual. There should be less ritual and more realism for the Catholics.
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>pets, I must admit that this pope is more down-to-earth than the last two, I am eager to see how he does.
AV
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A case of mulch ado about nothing?
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>Andrew, I see what you did there… 🙂
AV
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As a current poster and future com-poster (get it, huh? see what I did there?), I thought this was pretty funneee! Sorry to hear that you are missing R 295.50 because of the Papal visit. I’m sure that since he snubs riches, and he probably has a few to coins to spare in his new position, you might get lucky if you send him an invoice for your lost wages. Couldn’t hurt. What can he do, excommunicate you?
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>Office, you too, what’s with all the puns tonight, well done. I had thought of invoicing the council, after all it was they who declared the holidays.
AV
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Oh I dunno…..it’s a Tuesday……life is short, one must pun while one can.
See, I am beginning to know you. I knew you wanted to send an invoice. hahahaha.
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funny post, good luck with the pope.
In Italy the people are glued to the telly watching his every move, kiss, traffic jam
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>pecora, I can imagine, you’d be having pope, pope, pope too.
AV
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love your reason for “being here”, AV … I will now look at the compost in my garden with completely different eyes… 🙂
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>OAiC, let’s face it, that’s the bottom line. Respect your compost!
AV
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