sacred_and_profane tender_square while the pope stood out on the vatican’s balcony arms gesturing as he prayed for the masses gathered in the square, i handed the street vendor my euros for a sugar donut and a bottle of smirnoff ice and drank it in along with the crowd. 211114 ... raze here's what i wish i would have thought to ask the priest when i was a baffled child sitting in a church pew: what happens when god stubs his toe or gets really steamed at a cloud that's blocking his view of a guatemalan farmer he wants to check in on? i mean, he can't say, "goddamnit," can he? that would be too on-the-nose. it would be like writing a website bio for himself in the third person. god wouldn't play it that way. so does he say, "me-damnit"? or does he keep it family-friendly and just howl, "MEEEEE!" at the top of his lungs? 220820 what's it to you? who go blather from