The Church of England is soliciting the public’s input for the next Archbishop of Canterbury.
There’s only one candidate, really.
Yes, Father Ted Crilly is a Roman Catholic priest, but if called upon, I am sure he would embrace the Church of England faster than Father Jack can move when he sights an unattended bottle of whiskey.
It’s unfortunate that Dermot Morgan died twenty-seven years ago, the day after filming on the last episode of Father Ted. And it’s also unfortunate that Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan is a transphobic shithead. Because I can see how the episode would go. Or at least start.
Ted, in the Parochial House, reading Hadrian the Seventh, by Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo.
Not really sure where it goes from there. Ted, being Ted, gets in way over his head. Does something hugely unpopular. Causes an international incident. Barely survives a near-death experience. Is either forced out or resigns, then goes back to the Catholic Church and the Parochial House like nothing had ever happened.
The William Shakespeare’s Star Wars plays are coming back into print later this year. (They’re in the forthcoming March issue of PREVIEWS.)
This got me to thinking.
Shakespeare’s history sequence of eight plays from Richard II to Richard III is sometimes called “the Henriad.” (The intervening plays, for the record, are Henry IV 1 and 2, Henry V, and Henry VI 1, 2, and 3.)
Would Shakespeare’s Star Wars sequence of nine plays, from The Phantom of Menace to The Merry Rise of Skywalker, be termed “the Vaderiad”?
And might another Jacobean playwright have written a play of his own inspired by the sequence? Perhaps Thomas Middleton and The First Roguers’ Tragedie?
An Aldi opened up the street from me, about a mile and a half, last year.
I went this afternoon for the first time, after finishing today’s big project at work.
I bought about thirty dollars of random cheeses.
I’ll have to return in a few weeks and see if they have the Irish whiskey and stout infused cheddars that they often carry around St. Patrick’s Day.