Automated Confession

As you will read about in the book, YouTube can be addictive. I swear I am on the YouTube wagon, but someone sent me a video I could not help but sharing.

One of my projects is a nascent website in which you can confess your sins (anonymously). I then post your sins here, and folks on the internet can then suggest penances or give you absolution.

The idea is that there are so few priests out there, there’s no one to confess to. So you seek Web-based confession and absolution here. I call it the Reconciliatron, after the masturbation device in Woody Allen’s Sleeper.

In any event, someone in YouTube land is thinking the same thing. Check it out here. (Thanks, Thomas!)

In other, unfortunate news, the Vatican just announced the excommunication of my brave friends, the womenpriests. Fortunately, the excommunication did not take. The womenpriests simply refused to be excommunicated. You go, girl(priest)s!

 

Unholy Wine(s) of the Week. Memorial Day weekend permitted a trifecta of tastings of the wines we brought back with us from the Finger Lakes. The Standing Stone Riesling 2007 was light, crisp, acidic, refined, with restrained white stone fruit and some mineral qualities. Should be drunk alone; a little delicate for food. Great value! The Silver Spring Winery 2003 Cabernet Franc was a good, light-bodied, light-alcohol summer red with a darker nose than taste, sufficient acid to pair with food. We drank ever so slightly chilled and it changed nice as it warmed in the glass. Lamoureaux (French for “Love Waters”) Landing 2007 Gewurtztraminer had dry, citrus qualities like a sauvignon blanc, spiciness mid-to-late-palate, no discernable lychee flavor, medium bodied with high but perfectly balanced alcohol.