Everyone is making such a fuss…
Posted by Terry Nelson on Mar 29th, 2007
So here is what I really look like - I didn’t want people to know I wear glasses…I know - I’m vain! (I’ve even thought of that Lasik eye surgery thing.)
(Cathy and Ray - I have blocked you from comments! I just posted this for Don Marco and Mr. Smith, they seemed to be curious as to my true identity, as was Rhapsody and Lee.)
March 29th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Terry, why do I just not believe that’s really you?
March 29th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Adoro, Hon, I think it’s because of Cath - and maybe that breadcrust thing…:)
March 29th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Terry, you mean you don’t look like Harrison Ford?
March 29th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Ummm, Terry, I think I saw you at Holy Family last Sunday…you’ve, like, changed.
March 29th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Hubba hubba!!!!
March 29th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
It’s too bad I don’t get around to watching any movies………so I don’t know if this is the real Terry58 or not…..
March 29th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Jean…I don’t quite know what to say, except maybe the lighting is bad at Holy Family - that bright light on Our Lady’s statue can be blinding when one looks away.. And of course, all of that incense is hard to see through…
March 29th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
I thought Don Marco already met you…?
It’s so funny - there’s a Seinfeld episode on right now - the Donna Chang episode - & that’s kind of how I think of you.
When I’ve talked to you, you sound like you’re a guy between the age of 18-32… & all this time I’ve thought of you as a brilliant, witty, older (not OLD, older) man…
but I’d feel kind of ripped off if you weren’t, the way George’s mother did…
March 29th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Rhaps - Don Marco and I did meet, but it was around 1976 - he doesn’t know how I have matured, and I also had a beard…time has been good to me! LOL!
(I think I watched Seinfeld just for George’s mom!)
March 29th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
I’ll grant you that the incense is thick at Holy Family (just the way I like it…), and I’ll even grant you that yes, the light on Our Lady can be blinding, but even so, aren’t we reaching an “apparition level” of visual distortion? You know, kinda like seeing the sun dance, as at Fatima?
March 30th, 2007 at 2:07 am
I’m still confused. Is it really you?
March 30th, 2007 at 2:09 am
We met,it is true, but it was 32 years ago!
March 30th, 2007 at 4:54 am
Terry, there’s nothing wrong, at all, with being a man of many faces. The internet is made for anonymity. You do a good job. That’s what matters.
I, on the other hand, just couldn’t wait any longer to show off the Bennett hawk’s-beak. That nose has been traced back 400 years.
March 30th, 2007 at 4:57 am
Wait a minute. That picture. Who was that blonde actor on The Man From U.N.C.L.E.?
March 30th, 2007 at 5:31 am
Time’s been good to ALL of us…
:p
Well, sometime within the next half century or so, things will change for all of us, in the place where there is no time.
March 30th, 2007 at 6:49 am
Terry, stop teasing!
March 30th, 2007 at 8:05 am
I am totally confused.
March 30th, 2007 at 8:45 am
I don’t really need the photo, Terry. I think the ever changing avvy is clever… but I think we all get a pretty acurate ‘glimpse’ of who you are in your very insightful posts.
March 30th, 2007 at 9:02 am
Terry
I think you spend far too much time looking for pictures of good looking men. Does that make a statement about “self image?”
Did everybody read my post about the Holy Family Divine Mercy Sunday Schedule at Holy Family? Of course not; nobody reads me!
But anyhow, “Divine Mercy Egg Rolls”, available nowhere else in the world, are on the menu.
Maybe we could meet there and have a session of “To Tell The Truth” while munching on Egg Rolls between Chaplets?
“Will the real Terry Nelson please stand up?”
March 30th, 2007 at 9:41 am
Thanks for all these comments…I love attention…I crave it actually…I cause scenes in grocery stores and movie theaters just to get attention…kidding!
Ray EVERYONE reads your blog! Gosh!
I’ve been waiting for Cathy to comment - she usually identifies the personality in the photo…err…or the personality she thinks I look like…now I’m confused.
March 30th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
It’s Nelson, Terry Nelson.
I really wish you’d lay off the plastic surgery. Even I can barely keep track of your revolving appearance. That doctor who works on you should have his license taken away.
March 30th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Ray, I read your blog, even though I live far away and can’t get to Mass at your parish but I wish I could, it sounds nice.
Terry, this is becoming more confusing. I feel like I am in some very bohemian coffee shop.
March 30th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
“I’ve been waiting…for a girl like you…to come into my…”
That’s from an old song Cath! You always say the funniest stuff!
Yes Elena, these comments are like dialog from “One Flew Over the Kookoo’s Nest”!
Thanks everyone.
March 30th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Elena Maria:
Actually, I don’t think I have ever posted on Mass at my parish. I have a reputation around here as a “church shopper” or “the man without a parish.”
My parish, the Basilica of St Mary in downtown Minneapolis, is gorgeous and prosperous and even has its own full time liturgist from Belgium who has a PhD in Baptismal Font Design (Historical) from Notre Dame.
Belgian liturgies remove the Sanctuary Lamp because of the presence of a baldachin, require us to stand for the Eucharistic Prayers, have a propensity to modify the GIRM language to make the ladies feel wanted and remove the Crucifix for all of Lent from the altar. Among other things that gripe me are allowing musicians to have their rehearsal time during my prayer time before the start of Mass.
But it is a good parish, for all of that. I haven’t seen any liturgical dancing or clown masses.
The music is magnificent and attendance is huge.
But something is a bit askew. Not enough for me to leave. Maybe I stay thinking I can be the one to make the difference.
And I spend many of my Sundays at other parishs, some because they are closer to home, some on “investigation trips” for my “Great Parishes” themed posts on my Stella Borealis blog.
Holy Family on Divine Mercy Sunday is a long overdue visit. Locals know it as “St Agnes West.” If Opus Dei exists here, it is at Holy Family.
March 30th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Jukebox Hero: I want to know what love is.
March 30th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
After this, NO MORE!
But;
“What’s love got to do with it, do with it, do with it…?”
Couldn’t resist.
March 30th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
I think we’ve all gone a bit bonkers, here.
March 30th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Thank you, Ray, that sounds like my parish.
Terry, this is ridiculous. I guess it has been a long Lent.
March 31st, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Ray, you should come to Epiphany for Easter Vigil. Then you can witness my first RCIA class of “graduates”.
I’ve heard a lot about this particular liturgy..it might be one for your “great parishes” post.
Especialy because you’ll know one of the RCIA teachers. I’m sponsoring someone, too. 
Oh…and I still love you Terry, even if you won’t post a real photo. I don’t take good pictures, so I avoid cameras. So no one will ever find a photo of me online, either.