I now have yet another e-book reader installed on my Blackberry! Kindle from Amazon has now put out a version for Blackberry so no books will ever escape me again! So far I've only got two books on it but they are doozies, I've got Concordia, The Lutheran Confessions and Treasury of Daily Prayer on there. Now I can have the TDP and the Book of Concord with me all of the time, without risking a hernia! Woo Hoo! :-) There is one more I want but I'm waiting till next month so as to spread around the costs and that is The Lutheran Study Bible. Yes, I have all three of these books in paper form but they are not exactly what you would call portable, so this makes me very happy ;-)
I didn't make our local Tea Party , but it pulled hundreds of people as well... Tea, anyone? from Father Hollywood by Father Hollywood Like hundreds of thousands of other Americans, the Hollywoods enjoyed a tea party this past Wednesday. "Tea party" (wink wink). Nothing subversive about sipping a little Darjeeling, eh wot? Nothing to see here, Miss Napolitano. Anyway, our local festivities were held at Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie. There were literally thousands of people crammed into the neutral ground (though on that day, the ground was anything but...), as cars and trucks poured by the busy boulevard laing on their horns in support. Here are pictures. And like every such gathering in our environs, there was even a brass band and an improptu "second line" parade. It was a "party" after all. But it was a party with a serious reason. The crowds were so overwhelming that it was hard to hear the speakers, and unfortunately, we did have a fe...