Fun: Go vote in the 2009 Cannonball Awards

The Crescat blog is organizing a contest to recognize lesser-known Catholic blogs, the 2009 Cannonball Awards. And - I'm completely serious - one of the categories is "Best Catholic Political Blog That is Not The American Papist". I already locked-in my vote, which I'll keep private until the end of the contest in view of fairness.

Do browse the other categories as well!

Stopped by a bouncer? Try reciting the creed!

Friday is offbeat story day at AmP. This one is an oldie but a goodie:

My older, cooler brother rang me the other day with a funny story. He and his rock band, “Rocketeer”, had been playing a gig somewhere off Oxford Street. The evening had gone well and when the band’s set finished, they decided to head to a nightclub in Soho. They did the usual rock band thing: ring ahead, pretend they were important, and hope to get the VIP treatment – or at least be allowed to jump the queue. “It usually works a treat”, laughed my brother.

But on arrival, the club had shut its doors. They were too late and a short, angry-looking Irishman blocked their entry. “No”, he said to their (now rather drunken) pleas, “I don’t care who you are. You’re not coming in.”

[See how the band eventually convinced the bouncer to let them in!]

Does anyone have a similar story?

Ph/t: Blog of the Courtier.

Favorite Catholic Quotations

Eric Pavlet at Inside Catholic found some great ones:

• Bd. Teresa of Calcutta: "God does not ask us to be successful; he asks us to be faithful."
• St. Catherine of Siena: "If you are what you should be, you will set the world on fire."
• St. Augustine: "If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."
• Also St. Augustine: "Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
• And yet again St. Augustine: "Our souls are restless, O Lord, until they rest in You."
  St. Thomas Aquinas: "Contemplate and give to others the fruit of your contemplation."

Others?

Picture: Papist Plotting in Florida

I just met someone and I think he possesses excellent taste in personalized plates.

Can you guess why? ;-)

Haha! I love it. Send me your own related submission and - if it's worthy - I'll post it!