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EDIT: Well, the Steelers won 21-10, but that's okay–as long as the Rams didn't lose...

Some reflections on the Super Bowl (at halftime

• Best Commercial: The FedEx stone-age commercial (although the 'magic fridge' by Budweiser was also fairly funny...).
• Who will win: I still say the Seattle Seahawks (I know, they're losing 7-3... but they will dominate the 2nd half).
• The Halftime Show: I didn't know the point of this year's halftime show was to make it worse than last year's fiasco. Message to media people: The Rolling Stones are dead. They have stopped rolling—a long time ago. If you haven't seen the halftime show, don't watch it (for your own good).

One last observation: It seems that most companies think you need to put a 'token unrealistically attractive woman' in their commercials to make them funny. But, I imagine, the top three commercials (as rated by the public) will be ones without the token unrealistically attractive women.

Sister Eva-Maria, FSGM, of Office of Youth Ministry fame, has recently started a new blog, Stewards of God's Mysteries, in which she discusses vocations to the priesthood. Check it out !

In other news, the priestie boyz have been practicing for Couch Potatoes (our annual Seminary variety show), and the Super Bowl is tonight (my bets are on Seattle - I've never been a fan of Pittsburgh).

A few days ago, some Seminarians and I were watching Finding Forrester, and one of the Seminarians found this website. It amazes me that someone actually paid to register the domain www.yourthemannowdog.com, but it's amusing, nonetheless.

I've started reading Pope Benedict XVI's first encyclical, Deus Cartias Est, and it is a very well-written, and very inspirational work! I am overjoyed that our new pope is continuing and developing some of the main issues approached in Pope John Paul II's papacy, especially love (what this encyclical's all about!).

From the second paragraph:

We have come to believe in God's love: in these words the Christian can express the fundamental decision of his life. Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction. (Read more...)

Let us work to not let college campuses (especially Catholic campuses) be poisoned yet again by the Vagina Monologues. Here's a good article (written by Dawn Eden of The Dawn Patrol) to read concerning 'V-Day' and the author of the Monologues. I wrote a bit more about this last year.

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