Saturday, May 28, 2005

Time Magazine Interviewed Me

Time Magazine recently interviewed me.

Here’s a transcript:

TIME MAGAZINE:
What did you think of Pope John Paul II?

POPE JOE:
J.P. was pretty good, but he had his flaws. I learned from his mistakes.

TIME MAGAZINE:
What flaws did he have?

POPE JOE:
Well, for one thing, he drove a Ford Escort. Not my style.

TIME MAGAZINE:
Tell us about your blog?

POPE JOE:
When I became Pope, I started getting all this email—as you can imagine. So I started a blog so that I could interact with anyone more quickly. Someone recently asked me if my office water cooler is filled with Holy Water.

TIME MAGAZINE:
How did you respond?

POPE JOE:
Of course, not. It’s just bottled mountain spring water. I could, of course, turn it to Holy Water if I wanted to because everything I touch is basically holy and blessed.

It’s like that legend about King Midas and how everything he touched turned to gold. It got him in trouble, didn’t it? He couldn’t eat food because it turned to gold. He’d see a ham sandwich sitting there and the second he touched it— it turned to gold. The poor man was starving.

And I would imagine that the Midas touch inflated the economy as well. The story never gets into the economics of the Midas Kingdom, but you can imagine how inflation must have skyrocketed.

TIME MAGAZINE:
Do you think you’re a type of King Midas?

POPE JOE:
Well, I’m sort of a King Midas—sure. Except everything I touch gets blessed—in a sense, but to really activate it—I need to say a prayer. So, at this moment—the bottled water is not holy yet.

Now, watch this.

[Pope Joe walks to water cooler ands says a silent prayer.]

Now it’s holy.

8 Comments:

Blogger dAAve said...

Sir

Your absolute HUMILITY overwhelms me. Does the VatCooler have more than one button to operate the spigot? Mine has a white button AND a red one. I like to push the red one. Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.

yours in service
HP

5/28/2005 2:31 AM  
Blogger TLP said...

Forgive me for asking, but now that the water in the cooler is Holy, is a person allowed to drink it? Or is it just for blessing things with?

5/28/2005 3:36 AM  
Blogger Lila said...

How about toilet water? Do you ever bless that?

5/28/2005 4:59 AM  
Blogger Åñèè§å said...

pope i think u should have ur own magazine....call it the big J...

5/28/2005 7:40 AM  
Blogger Weary Hag said...

Dear Pope-sta,
This is exactly the kind of miracle that Catholicism is founded on. You're a genius to prove it to the media in such a clever way. Good job.
Weary Hag

5/28/2005 1:21 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Plain crazy

5/28/2005 1:26 PM  
Blogger admin said...

They told me the issue is due out in a month. I told them not to put that same ugly picture of me on the front again. That picture scares me--wasn't my best day.

I have some new head shots that look awesome. I no longer look like a hobit.

5/28/2005 5:34 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You look the way you always did.

5/28/2005 10:25 PM  

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