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About Me

I am forty-three and have spent my life studying physics, archaeology, and many other pursuits both artistic and scientific. I live by the sea about an hour north of Los Angeles and I love the ocean air. I have medical issues that I deal with. I was diagnosed with lupus SLE about four years ago and it has been a swift adversary. I am one of the oddities-- a white guy in his thirties (as I was then) to get lupus SLE. Anyway it has made life challenging. Because I can no longer hold regular employment I donate my time and talent as an actor/director, performing strictly for those productions which are charity benefits of one form or another. We just did a musical revue to benefit Darfur, I am currently learning lines for another to benefit addiction recovery programs, and my Lupus Foundation benefit will be "Sweeney Todd" next year. I spend my time online, studying, and teaching whenever needful. I enjoy the Latin Mass, praying, candles flickering in colored glass votives, and the lulling sounds of Gregorian Chant.I deliberately chose an obscure branch of the Historic Undivided Church which had avoided falling under the sway of either Rome or Constantinople. We were driven into the North by the moslem hordes, then to these shores by the Soviets. We have no treasure, or beautiful buildings, or limousines, or million-dollar expense accounts. Our clergy, from the lowliest monk to His Holiness the Patriarch (he's basically the Pope), all support ourselves and provide for our flocks as well. I rose through the ranks and served as His Holiness's personal diplomatic representative for years, then retired from public life to form and govern the Order of Saint Gregory. I am a Metropolitan Archbishop, which is the same as a Cardinal, so my friends all call me The Cardinal...

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet people for friendship and more. I like adventurous, happy people who love good theater, good food, good health, good fun, old TV shows, old movies, new movies, the beach at sunset, people-watching, travelling (whether actual or virtual), reading and studying all manner of books and manuscripts and curios and artifacts from the deep past. I want to meet those with a deep and steadfast love of God and Christ and His Blessed Mother, and who can "think outside the box", theologically speaking. Let's admire Gothic stained-glass windows and shiver with delight listening to the thunder of a well-played pipe organ. Let's feel the deep sacredness of a Solemn High Mass in Latin, and be swept away into the sonorious Gregorian and Ambrosian Chants. And so very, very much more!

My Blog

Religion and Secular Laws

I am troubled by the angry "vows" by self-righteous fundamentalist groups to fight through an amendment to our State's constitution forbidding marriage to all couples except those who abide by th...
Posted by on Sun, 18 May 2008 16:02:00 GMT

Victory In California

Today, the Supreme Court in a victory for equality and removing one more hurdle between me and marriage (in the future should I meet someone) has struck down the so-called "Marriage Protection Act" wh...
Posted by on Thu, 15 May 2008 16:24:00 GMT

Palm Sunday

Happy Palm Sunday! Open the newspaper and it makes you wonder if there ever was a time that the populace came out, cheering, for the Anointed One, the Prophet and Teacher, the Healer Who claimed to be...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:14:00 GMT

This Internet

Each time I go online and learn more and more about how to use this vast resource, I am humbled. I stand humbled before the utter massiveness of this "Internet World Wide Web" and wonder how it ...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:29:00 GMT

Wow I Love People

Today I met with both my "prop" and "costume" people at the high school down the way whose massive theater we’re using to stage "Birdie". The lady (and I DO mean LADY) who’s daughter...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:13:00 GMT

Lupus is a Pain in the Neck (Literally!)

Being forewarned against using the "back" button function while in blog-world, I am no longer in danger of erasing myself.... I mean that lupus is, quite literally, a pain in my neck. The myster...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:59:00 GMT

New (or old) Week

Here we go with the second version of this 'blog. I spazzed and hit the "back" button on the "preview" page and there went all nine paragraphs of witty me. Lost in cyberspace forever. ...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:24:00 GMT

Saint Matthias

Today we celebrate the life and martyrdom of Saint Matthias, the man chosen to replace the deservedly dead Judas Iscariot. According to the account in the last eleven verses of the first chapter...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:16:00 GMT

Its Been an Interesting Decade

What a decade! In 1999 I went off on an adventure, acting and directing, and exploring my Faith (to its limits, let me tell you!) by joining a Christian repertory theater company. During t...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:05:00 GMT