Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Long Day Gets Longer

Apparently, the bishop-elect of Pittsburgh wants to savor every last morsel of his appointment day: David Zubik's schedule isn't ending with the previously-announced 7pm Vespers service for clergy and seminarians at St Paul's Seminary, but he'll be out and about almost 'til the witching hour, doing a live sit-down on the 11pm newscast of the Steel City's ABC affiliate, WTAE.

Viewers of both 'TAE and KDKA woke this morning to the phoned-in analysis of your (exhausted, unshaven, running on adrenaline) narrator on the happy news.... Napping as possible; fun working with everyone in the 'Burgh on this very happy occasion; our inner Philadelphian is impelled to remind the Westerners that no Purple Rain has fallen on their turf since 1968....

Now to the next stop on the Appointment Express....

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