Have you seen this? It is a worthy successor of the VW Darth Vader commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkByAkAdZs&feature=player_embedded
About this blog…
“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
Fr. Z’s Podcasts RSS Feed
Federated Computer… your safe and private alternative to big biz corporations that hate us while taking our money and mining our data. Have an online presence large or small? Catholic DIOCESE? Cottage industry? See what Federated has to offer. Save money and gain peace of mind.
Polls
Loading ...ABORTION PILL RESCUE NETWORK
Everyone, work to get this into your parish bulletins and diocesan papers.
Donate using VENMO
GREAT BEER from Traditional Benedictine Monks in Italy
Good coffee and tea. Help monks.
CLICK and say your daily offerings!
A Daily Prayer for Priests
I use this when I travel both in these USA and abroad. Very useful. Fast enough for Zoom. I connect my DMR (ham radio) through it. If you use my link, they give me more data. A GREAT back up.
Help support Fr. Z’s Gospel of Life work at no cost to you. Do you need a Real Estate Agent? Calling these people is the FIRST thing you should do!
They find you a pro-life agent in your area who commits to giving a portion of the fee to a pro-life group!
This blog has to earn its keep!
PLEASE subscribe via PayPal if it is useful. Zelle and Wise are better, but PayPal is convenient.
A monthly subscription donation means I have steady income I can plan on. I put you my list of benefactors for whom I pray and for whom I often say Holy Mass.
In view of the rapidly changing challenges I now face, I would like to add more $10/month subscribers. Will you please help?
For a one time donation...
To donate monthly I prefer Zelle because it doesn't extract fees. Use
frz AT wdtprs DOT comPLEASE RESPOND. Pretty pleeeease?
The "sign of peace" during Mass in the Ordinary Form...
- I dread it as it approaches and think of ways to avoid it. (36%, 9,555 Votes)
- I tolerate it. (35%, 9,195 Votes)
- I hate it so much I won't go to Mass where it is done. (12%, 3,205 Votes)
- I like it and am happy to do it. (11%, 2,955 Votes)
- I don't care one way or another. (6%, 1,696 Votes)
Total Voters: 26,606
Loading ...WDTPRS POLL
Should the Bishops of the USA have us return to obligatory meatless Fridays during the whole year and not just during Lent?
- Yes, and I think this is very important. (81%, 15,546 Votes)
- Yes, I guess so. (9%, 1,716 Votes)
- No, I hesitate about such a move. (5%, 900 Votes)
- No, this would be a really bad idea. (3%, 511 Votes)
- I don't care. (2%, 431 Votes)
- What's penance? (1%, 152 Votes)
Total Voters: 19,255
Loading ...
Loading ...
Oh my goodness! Thanks for my best laugh of the day! :-)
Quinto is an amazing actor. Loved him in”Heroes.”
Good clip, thanks!
I knew there was a reason we liked you Father. This seals the deal. ;-)
A rare literal lol. But did you have to use the tag to remind us of these gentlemen’s faults? [?]
Fr., I believe the Obscure one is referring to “This entry was posted in Liberals”
Heh. I haven’t heard the Bilbo song since Dr. Demento.
“Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.”
– David Mamet
Thanks Fr. Z! That was great!
LOL!
LOVE IT!
(Um, should I have some idea of who Zachary Quinto..IS?)
“I have no ego to bruise.” I would take the Mercedes.
Went to a Star Trek convention: LOVED IT. Heard the Shat–force of nature, possibly not of this world. Nice people, Trekkers, or Trekkies, or whatever. Counselor Troy was there, too: looks no problem. Met Capt. Pike, perhaps most moving of all. Such a wonderful series, really.
On another note, R. I. P., Seamus Heaney, raised a Catholic, possibly lapsed.
I wonder if they had to pay Leonard extra to sing that song again, either that or the man has a great sense of humor and can laugh at himself. Hearing it was quite unexpected and genius.
Heaney died? I have read some of his stuff. He won the Nobel some years ago in poetry. I also have his translation of Beowulf in an audio book form… somewhere in storage. Definitely Catholic and lapsed and pretty angry about it from what I could tell. Irish.
Sorry for my infelicitous phrasing. My intent was to ask why this was “posted in liberals” so as to remind us of these fellows’ faults. They were, after all, quite engaging and funny and not demonstrably liberal for those few moments.
Bah Humbug! I’ll stick with my Honda. You can fit a stand up bass in it and still comfortable fit four people in it.
Fr. Z., ah you do not read my blog. I had the announcement of the great poet’s death on it last week. Sad, but the norm now and has been for some time for Irish poets and novelists to be angry old men concerning the Church. Boring, now. “Tis the times. Still, we have and are losing the best poets. Few to take over the helm…
“Counselor Troy was there, too: looks no problem.”
Not sure what the last part meant; I believe her name is spelled “Troi”, but I could be wrong.
jflare, Mr. Quinto played a very Spock in 2009 in (what I considered enormously entertaining) prequel to the Star Trek series.
darn! Very YOUNG Spock…
OK, I didn’t get the connection with the song about Bilbo. Someone more culturally savvy… Quanah? Help?
Everything you need to know about the Bilbo Song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC73PHdQX04
HyacinthClare,
In the late 1960s, while Nimoy was trying to parlay his Star Trek fame into a sideline gig as a singer (which musical career did not live long, nor did it prosper), he recorded a goofy, terrible novelty song called “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins”. That’s what he was singing to himself behind the wheel in the commercial. For me, that was the funniest part of the whole thing.
Thank you, everybody! Now I get it! I had never seen that. That makes this twice as funny!
“In the late 1960s, while Nimoy was trying to parlay his Star Trek fame into a sideline gig as a singer (which musical career did not live long, nor did it prosper), he recorded a goofy, terrible novelty song called ‘The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins’.”
I have pristine copies of both Mr. Spock’s music from Outer Space, and Leonard Nimoy Sings… in vinyl.
That being said, (alert: food fight), most true geeks do not consider the alternate universe Trek to be canonical. We can tell because: 1) non-geeks love it, 2) it is making tons of money. J.J. Abrams wrote a mass-market movie using the Trek characters that would appeal to, basically, anybody. Do you know how many scientist vocations came out of the 1960’s and 1970’s because of the original Star Trek? No vocations from these movies, I’ll bet.
In fact, there are two restorational projects going on to make original universe Trek, again. The first, Star Trek, phase 2, is a continuation of the original five year mission. You can download the episodes, here:
http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/
James Cawley does a very good Kirk. Some of the original cast members (Chekov, Sulu, Rand, Tasha Yar (in a different role)) have appeared in the episodes and Majel Roddenberry voiced the computer (so it has recognition by the Roddenberry family). David Gerold (Trouble with Tribbles) wrote an episode. Morally speaking, these are all over the map. They have an episode where they play Amazing Grace, but also an episode showing a homosexual relationship (sadly, the David Gerold episode). The episode with Sulu, however, is very moral and involves self-sacrifice.
The second restorational project involves the holographic Doctor, Chekov, Tuvok, Harry Kim, Jonas Quinn (from Star Gate SG-1). It is called, Star Trek: Renegades:
http://startrekrenegades.com/home/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2621446/
The Chicken
Wow! Talk about how make-up and dress make a difference! I have a copy of the “Star Trek reboot” movie–I like it quite a little, actually. ..But I didn’t recognize the fellow in this clip at all.