On The Radio, No One Can See Your Beard

Incredibly, the kind people at Relevant Radio contacted me last week regarding a brief interview about The League of Bearded Catholics. Listen in Monday, November 23rd between 7:00 and 7:30 a.m., on Morning Air with (the bearded) Sean Herriot. That will be great fun, because my daughter and I often catch Sean, et al on Morning Air as I drive her to school.

I've also been asked to write a short article about The League for a respectable Catholic journal, but I'll give more details (assuming they don't come to their senses) when the article has actually been accepted and scheduled for publication.

Do you think I should remind them that we have yet to, you know... hold an actual, official meeting? Or is that best kept under my fedora?

Comments

[John Kasaian]

Tim, I saw a special on TLC about how Boeing designs and builds aircraft. Apparently there are design and fabricating facilities all over the globe and the parts are shipped to the factory where the aircraft is assembled.
If such a complex structure such as a 767 can be "born" among four continents then it would stand to reason that an unstructured and religiously hairy League might easily be conceived and birthed among the confines of a few computer monitors scattered across a couple of time zones.

[Will Duquette]

Considering where you are and where I am, my attending an actual meeting is rather unlikely. Pity.

In one way it's best that my membership remain virtual. I'm good with Tolkien, Lewis, Bellow, and Chesterton, I'm happy to assume a beard for the duration of a meeting, and I'm glad to quaff beer. Stilton is beyond me, but I'm happy to see others enjoying themselves. Alas, though, I can't abide smoking. I'm not passing judgement, here, I just can't stand the smell. The day my dad gave up smoking was one of the happiest days of my childhood.

[John Kasaian]

When we do having a meeting, I might take the train (Chesterton would have travelled that way----Belloc would likely have walked and since I'm in California that would take too long even if I drew a straight line on a map and followed it) Is there an Amtrak near by? I'll bring Dry Jack, which is the only cheese I know of that is truly Californian.

[Der Wolfanwalt]

I'd be up for a meeting...I was planning on brewing a festive and Yuletide-ish cranberry cider, which I can bring along. Also pipes and cigars aplenty (which I will smoke outside in deference to Mr. Duquette).

[Tim J.]

"Considering where you are and where I am, my attending an actual meeting is rather unlikely. Pity."

What with TLBC just starting up, and all, it is understandable if this may have been missed... but the glory of The League is that it's meant (eventually, hopefully) to be a rather decentralized constellation of small local chapters all bound together by an appreciation and love for the tradition of the Four Patrons.

I'm beginning to work on an area chapter that will serve as a kind of hub, but if I manage to pull together a handful of regulars - five or six - I'll be ecstatic.

Not that anyone must belong to a local chapter with regular meetings... but wouldn't that be the coolest? There is nothing that should discourage the formation of a local chapter, even if the number is small. Small, as they say, is beautiful. Jump right in. The worst that could happen is that it won't catch on. Meh.

As to smoking, that would be the icing on the cake , for me, but I completely understand those who don't care for it. Like nearly everything in TLBC land, it's entirely optional and up to the local group. Even if we have some meetings at my house, any smoking will have to be outside on the porch. House rules.

I remember going away to college and coming home the first time and realizing how my dad's chain smoking had made the whole house (and everything in it) smell awful.

I do like a nice pipe on the porch a few times a week, but that's it.

[Tim G]

You should start a Facebook group for TLBC. Great way to do networking.

[John Kasaian]

Will Duquette:
"We'll tell our wives that we're going to a convention, and they'll be none the wiser"
---Laurel & Hardy

[Del]

Am listening to you, live and on-the-air.

Congratulations! You're doing great!

Who would have thought that your bit of joyful Catholic whimsy would go national -- in the first week?!!?

[Darin]

Great job! You made my drive into work much more enjoyable this morning!

[Tom Rohr]

Tim,

Good job on Morning Air this morning. I think you can sign Sean up as a member. He had so much fun I wouldn't be surprised if he made you a regular. God Bless! Tom

[Tim J.]

Thanks, all.

Sean is a terrific and kind interviewer, and skillfully prevented me from making a jackass of myself.

I was very gratified that he "got" the concept and asked great questions. For the record, I *was* nervous, but he made it very enjoyable.