Habemus Papam

Yes, indeed we do have one. It's just that after watching the mini-series about PJPII last night, I miss him. In this particular discussion/remembrance, I choose to forget that he was, appropriately, very old-school Catholic and might have thought I was going to hell for taking BC, and I am concentrating on the fact that he was the cutest Pope EVER. When they get Thomas Kretschmann (see Fig. 1) to play him, that says something (I'm going to go ahead and ignore the mini series, also about PJPII, that stars John Voight, see Fig. 2, and airs in but a few days).

Fig. 1

Fig. 2

John (Señor Unsavory) Voight.

And today, as I was perusing Manolo's Shoeblog, er, WORKING, I was again moved to thinking wistfully about our Polish Johannes Paulus. This is—partially—why:




This is also why:


Compare and contrast, kids. I don't know where I saw it, but somewhere in my surfing, I saw a picture of PB16, and it was captioned, "BOOGADA BOOGADA!" Apt, no?