Plagiarism

Ok, the pope died. I don't have any personal feelings about this one way or another because I don't think about the pope very often (unless I'm listening to "Pope" by Meryn Cadell on Angel Food for Thought). I also didn't think very often about Princess Diana. Her death didn't faze me either because I never really knew her, even in the "fan admiring her from afar" sense. I just didn't care. It wasn't until a recent interview of Tim Curry in which he described a brief interaction with Princess Diana when he surmised to her "oh, I'm sure you've never seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show," to which she replied, "on the contrary, it quite completed my education." He said she had a wicked grin on her face. I liked her after that, even though she's not with us any more.

Anyway, I would like to claim ownership of this line, but it belongs to my friend who wrote me an email which ended with the following:

On the other hand, if you have a copy of "The Pope" by that girl who sang "The Sweater" you should put it on your site in celebration of the recent passing of his eminence who is now, finally, after all, incotrovertibly, infallible.

Because a dead man can do no wrong.

So, here's a little toast to the pope. May you rest in your infallible peace.