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Megablogging on the Day of Hunky Jesus

April 8, 2007

Metablogging on the Day of Hunky Jesus . . . or
To Blog or Not to Blog . . . Is That the Question?

There are some days when I really, really have something to say. And, there are days when . . . not so much.

Let it be said, then, that this blog entry is happening on the day that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence celebrate their 28th anniversary. I do care. The Sistory began on Easter Weekend 1979 and on and on. In 1998-99, our office staff was chock full of Sisters.

Somewhere in there round about 2000 began the contest to select the most beauteous Jesus on hand. I suspect folks back at Woodlawn Baptist Church in Vicksburg where I grew up attending Easter Sunday services, well, I suspect they would open their eyes really wide about that contest.

“Are you born again?” I asked my friend Leslie Ewing, to which she said, “Yeah, several times.” You have to laugh if you are from the heritage she and I share. “Did you take a dip?” I asked. Then we got talking about if it was outside or in. Woodlawn has a tank, I bragged. You know now, when anyone any where does a Google search on “Woodlawn Baptist Church,” this here blog entry is going to come up making fun of the tank and talking about Hunky Jesus.

Well then, let it be known to all who care that I am not Catholic and have never been, because my Irish family of Sullivans lost their Catholicism in the backwaters of Mississippi where there was no Catholic Church.

But, I did teach one year at a Catholic school in Whitehaven, Tennessee just down the road from Graceland. That counts for something, doesn't it? I got fired from Bishop Byrne High School because I trusted a colleague and then she outed me to the principal. All hail Hunky Jesus! It was a life changing experience that ultimately resulted in my newspaper industry career.

Well, once in a while comes time to blog about blogging and that’s called metablogging. How do we do that? The Betty Blog’s way is to offer up the link to “The Giant Blogging Terms Glossary” . . . so there.

Read through the list and you’ll find out a lot about the blogosphere. Do you have a sense that we switched from talking about Easter to talking about blogs?

I asked Liz on the phone tonight if she celebrates Easter. She said, “Well, we dye eggs and have chocolate.” Miss Louise and Pop used to get Easter Baskets for brother Stan and me. One year I asked for a plastic horse instead of a bunny. I got the horse. That was probably an early indication I was queer. Mary, my best friend, got one too. Yeah, she’s queer.