BREAKING NEWS! Say "YES" to Wood!
Saint Francis Urges Use of Birchwood Cutlery for July 4th Weekend, thanks to Marianne Rohrlich from the New York Times.
Frank then said that everyone should consider patronizing
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So, we are doing our due diligence and reminding everyone to say "YES" to wood and order some nice utensils from
Each package includes a knife, fork, spoon, and napkin and six come in a pack!
"Billboard Charting Shameful," declare Saints Cecilia and Matthew
"Michael Jackson deserves the # 1 Spot over Vegetables, Black Eyed Peas
The Patron Saint of Accountants, Saint Matthew, has joined with the Patroness of Music Lovers, Saint Cecilia, from http://www.saintsforsinners.com/ decrying "Faulty Billboard Magazine Addition and Categorizing." Both Saint Cecilia and Saint Matthew are pictured above, as hand-painted saint medals enjoying a game of "Where's Waldo."
Today, The New York Times, in an article by Ben Sisaro reported that Michael Jackson's Records, "Number Ones," "The Essential Michael Jackson" and "Thriller," all sold over 100,00 records each, according to Nielson Soundscan. The total number of records sold was over 420,000.
Yet, in what Saint Matthew said is "pitifully ludicrous ridiculosity," some Black Eyed Peas are listed as having the number one record for the week, for their record, appropriately titled "The E.N.D." Matthew added "The Peas only sold 88,000 records and as the first Certified Public Accountant ever awarded the title, I can tell you with some certainty, that 100,000 is more than 88,000."
The Director of Charts for Billboard, Silvio Pietroluongo, even acknowledged that the "level of dominance by Michael Jackson on the top .... is unlike anything we've ever seen." Replied Saint Cecilia, "Sheesh, then give him the Number Ones he deserves," and all the other Saints pictured above agreed.
Former "Married With Children" star David Faustino and Corin Nemec, the once forgotten star of "Parker Lewis Can't Lose," have been busy filming short episodic pieces, or "webisodes," of a little ditty called "StarVing" on www.Crackle.com the New York Times reported today in a great article by the writer Jon Caramanica.
Filled with sophomoric cliches, crude humor, and lots of nudity, the program is sure to be a hit, says www.SaintsforSinners.com representative, Saint Genesius, the patron of actors, comedians and of course, lawyers. Saint Genesius then lamented,"neither of those kids are wearing my hand-painted SaintsforSinners medallion and that's just wrong!"
Nemec, Faustino's sidekick on the StarVing episodes is yet another former child star who has successfuly invigorated his thespian career with this new acting gig on the world wide web. The same can be said for Faustino, with both also being credited as the Executive Producers of the show segments, available for free at http://www.crackle.com/. "It's silly but it's clever in a childish way," Saint Genesius added
We were only able to sit through a few of the shows, but we predict this StarVing program will be a hit with people like Hamptonians Brendon Henry and Paul Fallo, two jokesters-at-large in Hampton Bays, New York, the town they poetically nicknamed "Harlem Bays" and the home of the popular rock/punk/rap musical group "Haunted Hacienda." New Orleans actor, film-maker, and brand new University of New Orleans graduate Brooks "Heyena" Webb, is rumored to have a part in one of the future shows, according to a local source who goes by the moniker, "Dusty." Whether Webb will quit his part time job with SaintsforSinners to work full-time with Faustino and Nemec in Hollywood remains "a mystery," according to Dusty.
http://www.saintsforsinners.com/ has announced that Saints Cosoms & Damien, the patron Saints of Twins, are taking a bus to London, England, to cheer on their fellow twin, Melanie Oudin, a Marietta, Georgia, teen who is in her first Wimbledon Tennis Quarter Finals.
Melanie's twin, Katherine Oudin, is reportedly also going to be watching her twin sister play in her next match against Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska. The USA versus Poland Match will be played on Monday, June 29, 2009.
Oudin, whose name rhymes with the delicious Cajun food, "boudin," is also of French ancestry, and says her favorite tennis player is the Belgium born Justine Henin, a girl who is not tall but who has proven that you "don't have to be tall to win."
Saints Cosmos & Damien saw Melanie Oudin give an interview with USTA Tennis Legend Mary Jo Fernandez, and Oudin said her last match was unreal, with her opponent taking a very lengthy and controversial break. But Melanie Oudin said she was never "like, oh my gosh, maybe she might retire or whatever." Melanie simply stayed poised throughout the match and says she will stay focused and keep "loving it" and the TV announcers suggested she "keep winning and keep smiling."
SaintsforSinners predicts that Melanie Oudin will become known as the future of womens' tennis in the USA. Move it on over, Venus & Serena Williams.
Birds of a Feather Flocking Together
Though they don't really flock together, or even know one another, but the renown Chicago artisan Tony Fitzpatrick and Cornell University Ornithologist Kevin J. McGowan have much in common. Both of these dudes are obviously Irishmen and they both make their living from their obsession with birds! And both have a particular (some might say peculiar) affinity for crows or starlings.
Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of birders, (featured at left with Saint Clare and chatting with some of his lovie-dovies) noted that Fitzpatrick has painted thousands of bird portraits throughout his career and likewise, McGowan has observed and studied thousands of birds, beginning at childhood.
McGowan, being a behavioral ecologist, tries to get into the bird brains of crows, better known to Saint Francis, (perhaps the original "birder") as Corvus brachyrhynchos.
McGowan says the American Crow is a very "cooperative breeder." They tend to stick around and help raise their siblings children and stuff like that. Of course, if a member of the bird family gets separated he or she will "make do with something else" and "hang out with another species" (of birds, of course, and certainly not felines). McGowan cooed and wooed his bird knowledge to C. Claiborne Ray, a writer who has published in the New York Times.
Whether these two gentlemen have seen Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds," or Matthew Modine, in "Birdy," or listen to "A Flock of Seagulls" or "The Counting Crows" remain unanswered questions. But now that the inquiries are out and about on the world wide web, perhaps one of these gentlemen will someday make a comment and answer on this www.SaintsforSinners.com blog subsidiary. If anyone wants to encourage Kevin McGowan to post a reply, his e mail address is KJMZ@Cornell.edu.
Famous Scientist "OUTS" Himself & Others,
The famous Pulitzer Prize winning Scientist, Bert Holldobler, made an astounding public confession to the patron saints of Confessors, Edward the Confessor & Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney (widely known as the "Cure D'Ars" and pictured above in a hand-painted http://www.saintsforsinners.com/ medal) and admitted that "Scientists Gossip A Lot!"
Holldobler offered his scandalous and scintillating bit of information about national and worldwide Scientists to www.SaintsforSinners.com after having fully outing himself, exclaiming "I gossip like a Scientist!" to the writer Claudia Dreifus. The New York Times first reported about Holldobler's confession in their June 16, 2009 issue of Science Times. Holldobler specifically identified the Scientist Edward O. Wilson as a Scientist he gossiped with while at Harvard University. (Note: SaintsforSinners' calls to Harvard have yet to be returned.)
Reactions about the gossip mongering of Scientists was mixed. Saint Matt Talbot, the Recovery saint, lauded Holldobler's admission, saying "The first step toward healing is acknowledging there's been a problem."
It should come as no surprise that Scientist Bert Holldobler, a professor at Arizona State University and professor emeritus at the University of Wurzburg, in Germany, is "one of the world's great ant experts." Edward O. Wilson also knows a lot about ants. Saint Teresa of Avila, our patroness of truthfulness and sincerity, blithely stated, "It should come as no surprise those two know a lot about ants, since ants, like Scientists, are very good at spreading the dirt around."
Saint Vincent de Paul ( featured, bottom left ), Saint Margaret ( featured, center ) and Saint Philomena ( featured top-left hand corner ), together with Abby and Eli Manning, are teaming with the Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center, among others, to help "connect Science and Compassion" when bringing new babies into the world, it was announced today, in the New York Times.
Abby and Eli Manning are probably most well-known as graduates of the prestigious "Old Miss," located in, you guessed it, the State of Mississippi.
We asked Saints Vincent de Paul, Margaret, and Philomena, how Abby and Eli Manning became involved with the hospital and charity and Vincent replied that the couple have "always been involved in philanthropic endeavors in efforts to help others." Margaret and Philomena chimed in that Eli Manning was "some guy who liked sports in New York City" and "Abby has always been maternalistic."
Saint Sebastian, patron of athletes, pulled us aside and noted that Eli Manning is a professional football player, Super Bowl Champion, and the winner of USA Today's Weekend Magazine's "Most Caring Athlete," to which Saint Margaret and Saint Philomena said "Whatever!"
The Baby Ball Fund Raiser will be held at The Ciprian, 55 Wall Street, New York, N.Y. (Telephone 212.699.4099) on June 18th, with NBC Televisions NFL Analyst Bob Costa serving as Master of Ceremonies.
The Eli & Abby Manning Birth Center at Saint Vincent's Hospital, will aid its longstanding reputation as a hallmark "Midwifery College," and help create a superior environment for Obstetrics and Natural Child Birthing.
Becoming further interested in the topic of Natural Child Birthing SaintsforSinners contacted a young woman in New Orleans, Katie Anderson, who said her child Samuel Lennon Anderson, was "born naturally, with no anesthesia, no pain medicine, no drugs at all." Katie said that giving birth to Sam naturally was "the most important, most life-affirming, womanhood affirming" event of her life. Anderson continued, adding "Natural Child Birth is important. Obstetrics can be invasive and pharmaceutically driven and tech-heavy." It is better for a pregnant woman to simply "listen to her body. Listen to her baby. I want to have another baby just so I can experience natural childbirth again," she added.
Katie Anderson praised Eli and Abby Manning for becoming involved in the field of Natural Child Birthing. 'We went about the birthing with the help of an experienced midwife or "Doula," Rebecca Hageman, who served as our birthing coach." Rebecca Hageman has been assisting women with Natural Child Birth for decades and in New Orleans and other places, including Guatemala.
We asked Katie Anderson if she had anything to add and she said she was happy that Abby & Eli Manning were part of the Natural Childbirth Movement. She said that people interested in the topic and other prospective parents can learn more about Natural Child Birth by watching the Documentary "The Business of Being Born." Katie, Saint Vincent de Paul, Saint Margaret and Saint Philomena, as well as Katie's infant son Samuel, all congratulate the Mannings for creating The Eli & Abby Manning Birthing Center" and helping pregnant woman realize the viable, rewarding, "life-affirming" experience known as Natural Child Birth.
http://www.saintsforsinners.com/ 's Saint Rocco, (also known as Saint Roch or Rock) recently visited New Orleans to assess the dog grooming facilities and had one thing to say: Mid City Pet Grooming's Connie Heaphy is an excellent dog groomer and her phone number is 504.874.0404!
Saint Rocco was born in the 13th Century. He is known as the Patron Saint of Dogs, Dog Lovers, Cattle, and Doctors (and, presumably, Veterinarians too). He is invoked against contagious diseases, cholera, plagues, and skin rashes (and, presumably, the "Swine Flu" too).
His story (which can also be found,
Rocco lost his parents at an early age and when he was 20 he decided to go on a pilgrimage to Rome. While he was traveling, a host of contagious diseases were running rampant and Rocco took time to administer to the sick. He would often just simply pray and make the "sign of the cross" over the body of those afflicted and many were miraculously cured.
Before he reached Rome, Rocco himself became afflicted with contagious sores on his leg. He knew that his illness would soon spread to other healthy people so he went into the woods to die a quiet, noble death. A dog (pictured with Rocco, on the far left of this blog) named Dusty befriended Rocco and kept him nourished by bringing "human food" that his generous friend, Robbo of NewOrlow, would let him eat. The food was usually really nice, healthy stuff from Whole Foods Market on Veterans Boulevard, and Rocco soon had the strength to say the "sign of the cross" over his own body and become cured. He then ventured back to the town where he had been living.
Sadly, at this point, after all those months in the woods with Dusty, Rocco was bruised and battered and unrecognizable to the folks in the village. Robbo of NewOrlo saw him and did not recognize him as Rocco. He saw that Dusty was friends with the man and got extremely jealous, afraid the man was an evil Dog napper. Robbo arranged to have Rocco imprisoned. An Angel looked after Rocco but he died while in jail (but later came back to life).
While Rocco was still in his not living phase, the dog Dusty brought Robbo over to him and Robbo saw Rocco's unique birthmark on his chest. Crestfallen that he had made a mistaken assumption about Rocco's identity, (and thus an ass out out of himself) Robbo vowed not to come to any any future conclusions without getting commentary from others.
Later, in an effort to remember and revere Saint Rocco, Robbo and many others started to put the letters "VSR" above their doorways of their homes, meaning to say "Viva Saint Rocco," or "Long Live Saint Rocco." Rocco's medal features him bended at the knee, with a hat in his hand and Dusty at his side. It is one of the most popular imported Italian hand-painted saint medallions at http://www.saintsforsinners.com/ and comes with a story card and an imported Italian Prayer Card (prayer in Italian) like the one at the top of this Blog.
NBA CHAMPIONSHIP's 3 BATTLES:
FULL DISCLOSURE: As patron saint of confectioners and candy, it must be disclosed that Saint Lawrence (pictured twice at right) is partial to candy, but he also noted that as patron of cooks and chefs, he likes his pizza too. Can you have your candy and pizza too?
Some foodies say the 2009 NBA Basketball Championship series has turned into a "Junk Food Spectacle" with Orlando Magic forward Hedo Turkoglu gobbling pizza before the Championship games and L. A. Lakers Lamar Odom "downing entire bags of chocolate and jelly beans on game day." As patron saint of cooks, chefs, and confectioners, the games caught the attention of http://www.saintsforsinners.com/ 's Saint Lawrence, who was invited to the games by Saint Sebastain, patron of athletes. The Orlando Magic and Turkoglu won the 3rd game but the L. A. Lakers and Odom still have a 2-1 lead in the series. Saint Lawrence has been calling the contest more than basketball games and more importantly a referendum on what is the most delicious food, ever. With candy leading by a 2-1 margin, Saint Lawrence ventured off with his skewer (his story is at http://www.saintsforsinners.com/ but in sum, he was cooked to death years ago and now sleeps on a griddle) to see who ordinary folks favored in the Candy v. Pizza match-up.
Gloria Cosenza, a Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy graduate, and college student in Fort Collins, Colorado, told Saint Lawrence that she loves her some Skittles, saying "Ever since I was a kid I inhaled whole bags of Skittles. Was it glamorous, No. Was it delicious, Yes. Yes!" Saint Lawrence commented and said it "GLORIAous" and asked her how she felt about pizza and she replied that she will not pass up "a slice of pizza from Pizza Casbah," since it is "idealistically nourishing" but then added she would "rather fried chicken." Getting nowhere with Cosenza, Saint Lawrence took a walk.
Saint Lawrence ventured over to Pizza Casbah, in Fort Collins Colorado, where he met college student and pizza expert and chef Nick Cardinale, whom he asked about the Candy versus Pizza contest. "A man who knows his pizza knows a lot of other things, like how to win a Championship," he said, obviously indicating he favored Turkoglu and the Orlando Magic. He then twittered, you can't count out "Zen Master Phil Jackson" (L. A. Lakers Coach). Cementing his utter confusion and obvious fickleness with the contest he blurted, "to be honest, I thought it would be the Cleveland Cavaliers who would win it all."
Whether it's Pizza Hut, Papa Johns, Dominos, Little Caesars or Pizza Casbah celebrating the final victory, or Skittles, Snickers, Peppermint Patty, Twix and Milky Way, remains to be seen. But the patron saint of cooks, chefs, and confectioners, Saint Lawrence, says "Either way, it will be a delicious convergence of ingredients that allows one team to land dominant."
Saint Martin of Tours, (featured left, and at www.SaintsforSinners.com/saint-martin-of-tours-medal-story.html the Patron of Winemeakers, Grape Growers, Wine Lovers, and New Orleans' "Tales of the Cocktail," has weighed in on the Rose' Wine debate that has rollicked Europe recently. Speaking in Bruges, a small town outside of Brussels, Belguim, Martin declared that "any effort to change the ingredients used in the making of Rose' wine will be rigorously opposed. Rose' is not red wine and Rose' is not white wine and never the three shall meet."
It appears the European Commission and Agricultural Commissioner, Mariann Fisher Boel, have heeded the warning from Saint Martin of Tours. Boel was quoted in the New York Times, on June 9, 2009, stating that the group has "abandoned the proposed changes" that would have signaled end of the traditional creation of Rose' and allow the blending of red and white wines to make Rose'. Before the end of the blending ban was proposed, Rose' had always been made by taking red grapes, crushing them, and then leaving them alone to ferment. Their colorness would disippate because the skin pigments would create a wonderful hue of pink, and voila, Rose'.
According to The New York Times, a spokesman for the European Commission was quoted as saying there had been lots of "ooh-la-la-ing" about the potential change in the recipe for Rose', especially by the French Winemakers. And across the pond, the American singer Billy Joel was no doubt pleased that there will remain 3 choices with regard to wine: "A bottle of white, a bottle of red, perhaps a bottle of Rose' instead" since those are the lyrics in "Italian Restaurant," one of the many hits from his classic masterpiece, "The Stranger." We tried to get a quote from Rock and Roller Bruce Springsteen to see what he thought, especially since he is in Europe on Tour, but he was not available. The line from his song "Spirits in the Night" should adequately explain his postion though, "I got a bottle of Rose' so let's try it."
THIS JUST IN:
Saint George, the patron saint of horses and horsemen, has announced that if Louisiana Jockey Calvin Borel wins the 141st Belmont Stakes later today, riding "Mine That Bird," Borel will be offically known as the "Best Jockey of the Modern Era." Saint George made the announcement after consulting with his horse "Whitey," (see photo) Calvin's Horse, ("Mine That Bird") and another horse named "Eleanor." The three horses spoke via conference call, initiated by the original talking horse, "Mr. Ed." Eleanor, the horse who is in a relationship with Neal Wanless, the 23 year-old from Todd County, South Dakota who recently won a $ 232 million Powerball Jackpot, said she hopes that Calvin Borel will come ride on her new ranch that her friend, Wanless, is buying for her. Eleanor said that when Wanless told her it would "be nice if we go for a longer ride than usual on a bigger ranch of our own," she immediately started thinking of horses to invite over for hay. "Mine That Bird was on the top of my list," Eleanor said.
Whether Borel will win the race remains a mystery. We do know that Mine That Bird's Trainer, "Chip" Woolley, has tremendous confidence in Borel and that Borel wants to win the race, not for the limelight it will bring, but because he feels Woolley is the "best trainer" he has ever worked for in his life.
All of us at www.SaintsforSinners.com are rooting for Jockey Calvin Borel to win the Belmont Stakes. Borel will then be the Best Jockey of our time, as Saint George has pronounced. But we wonder if Borel will retain his crown for long. Two young teenage jockeys, "Smokin'" Joe Talamo and Dustin Dugas, are extremely able forces to be reckoned with in the future. If Borel and Mine That Bird win today, they will enjoy at least a year at the top of the charts. Whether Talamo or Dugas will unseat Borel in 2010, remains another mystery....
Since 1877, The Fresh Air Fund has been taking New Yorks' inner-city children away from their stifling, noisy city streets and bringing them to places filled with grass, water, fresh air, and a simpler way of life, in the country or at the beach, or both. The kids get "a chance to truly expand their horizons" and get away from the hustle and bustle of their cities in the horrendously hot summer months.
Payless Shoe Stores has been a Guardian Angel of sorts, and a great contributor to The Fresh Air Fund, and in a very fun way. They are selling the "Friendship Shoe." They are white canvas sneakers that come with markers, like Sharpies, and the kids (or the adults who are kids-at-heart like me!) who get them have their friends and camp counselors decorate and sign them to create one-of-a-kind momentos of their Fresh Air Fund experience. The profits from the sales of the shoes go to The Fresh Air Fund and Payless Shoe Stores have donated over $120,000 over the last two years.
As many of you know, I have a tradition of wearing an Arch Bishop Rummel Thrift Store shirt to Jazz Fest every year, along with a cache os Sharpies. The shirt is worn and decorated year after year, adding special history and nostalgia with each passing Jazz Fest. It's my favorite shirt.
Today I am going to go to http://www.payless.com/ and buy a pair of Friendship Shoes and begin a new tradition of having friends and strangers alike, decorate my shoes. This will be better than my Rummel shirt because these special sneakers will raise awareness about The Fresh Air Fund and the great work they do for inner-city youth. If decorating sneakers is not your idea of a fun thing to do, consider donating to the Fresh Air Fund. A mere $24.00 donation pays the bus fare, round-trip, for a kid to get out of the city and participate in the Fresh Air Fund Porgram. You can donate online or you can mail a check to:
For more information about The Fresh Air Fund, visit http://www.freshair.org/ - This is a great charity, one that recognizes that "the only thing more fleeting than summer is childhood."
Here is the UnOriginal "Flying Nun," with Sally Field in the starring role. She's a faker but we still "really, really like her." The real flying nun was Saint Mary Catherine Laboure.
We recently uncovered the truth about the
"Flying Nun" and Sally Field was not her! It seems the American public was duped. The original real deal "Flying Nun" was Saint Mary Catherine Laboure'. The proof is in the pudding, or in this case, the photographs.... We have the real Flying Nun medallion at SaintsforSinners.com.
