[sinkspur]

It means that their lives are about being what is "in" and "hip", not substance. Real substance.

So the "current hot spot" is about substance? Real substance? Is beer more substantial than a peach bellini? Jagermeister more "blue collar" than Chambord?

The Church is about substance. The real thing. The Church is strong and Mass, in the NO of the USCCB, does NOT reflect that.

Well, to me, the NO does. You should seek out a Latin Mass, if that is to your liking. But you really ought to stop putting your personal disapprobation on the NO just because you don't like it. That's what you trads accuse the bishops of doing.

You're a snob, Des.

[Desdemona]

Martinis are more substantial than anything else.

It's not the NO, necessarily, for me. It's the descent into mediocrity. It's the "dumbing down" of the language and the art and the meaning, that's my problem. It's gotten worse in the last 25 years and sinking further.

Snob? Maybe. City-girl? Definitely. Extremely high standards? Absolutely. And I'm not lowering them for anyone. I don't care what they think of me.

I have to get up in the morning and have an opera performance afterward. Menotti isn't my favorite, but it looks good on the resume.