Extra: The Rude Pundit's Favorite Conversation He Ever Had Related to the Pope:
The Rude Pundit's lover in the late 1980s had an intensely Catholic sister. She was in high school still, One day she comes into the house and announces to the Rude Pundit and said lover, "I just got the tape of Tony Melendez, that singer who performed for the Pope. He's the one who doesn't have any arms."
"The one who plays with his toes?" The Rude Pundit asked, fondly remembering fondly the sight of Melendez, eyes closed, pluckin' that fuckin' acoustic for all he was worth with his toes. And how Melendez sobbed when John Paul kissed his head after he was done. Such miracles - a boy who can play guitar with his toes. "Is he blind, too?"
"No," said the sister. "I don't think so." And she put on the cassette. The parents of the sister and the lover gathered around, the mother powerfully moved by Melendez's vocal stylings and, of course, the toe pluckin'. Who wouldn't be? The sister asked the Rude Pundit, "What do you think?"
"It's okay," said the Rude Pundit.
"He's playing with his toes."
"So?"
"So you don't like it," she said, getting all teenage girl pouty. "You can't even play the guitar. He's playing it with his toes."
"We should forgive his playing because of the freak factor? If he sucks, he sucks, and who gives a damn how many limbs he has."
"But he played for the Pope."
"Sucks for the Pope. It's America. You'd think there'd be a better armless Catholic guitar player somewhere around here."
// posted by Rude One @ 11:46 AM
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