Birding and other pleasures and aggravations, in Berkeley and beyond, by Ron Sullivan.
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They’ve dug up Padre Pio.
Somehow it was always the creepiest of the pious creeps that orbited the parish church when I was a kid who were devotees of Padre Pio. Somebody call Mary Gordon; I bet she’d have an interesting essay or two about this.
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2 | By: Ron Sullivan on April 25, 2008 at 09:31 AM
Yeah really. At least in New Guinea, they smoke-dry ‘em first, and in Madagascar they wait till they’re dried out good and then throw them a party, which is a much better idea than worshipping.
3 | By: kathy a on April 25, 2008 at 12:38 PM
i’m just not that into the bodies of ancient dead guys.
there are a couple of rather unattractive mummies at the rosecrutian museum in san jose—wildly popular with the elementary school crowd, all of whom think they are spectacularly gross.
4 | By: Sara on May 7, 2008 at 11:01 AM
So bizarre.
The article says the economy of the town revolves around this guy. How weird would it be to grow up in that town?
5 | By: Ron Sullivan on May 7, 2008 at 08:47 PM
Hey kids! Get yer set of Lee Press-On Stigmata! Be the first on your block!
Never mind what the 5-cent lemminade stand equivalent would be.
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1 | By: narya on April 25, 2008 at 02:17 AM
Eww. I couldn’t get past the reconstructed his face part.