Oct 16
Vatican TV is reporting that John Paul 2 is waving from beyond the grave in a bonfire that was lit on the second anniversary of his death.
Let me be clear: He is in a bonfire. He is not in a cloud. He is not playing a harp. He is in a fire. Burning. The pope is, according to Vatican TV, burning in a fire.
Being a Catholic, I don’t pretend to understand Catholicism, but I think it’s pretty obvious what’s happening here. The Pope is burning in hell.
Although Ryan Oakley began his career as a simple rake (drunk) he has since become Toronto’s most renowned flaneur (no car) and notorious dandy (overdresses). A misanthropic composer of psycho-geographical fictions (sci-fi), he is also a server of food, a tender of bar and a washer of dishes. While performing all these functions with efficiency and elegance (disdain and malice), he somehow finds the time to publicly criticize friends, strangers and cultural crap.
