A miraculous blogospheric event has taken place!

The Anti-Carnival has arrived!

To share in the joyous festivities, go and read the Cardinal of the Vanities #134 - Avignon Edition! This week's Carnival so irritated His Eminence Laurence Cardinal Simon (history's only formerly Amish Cardinal), that invoking his divine authority, he has declared the godless Dr Zen a "Blogheretic", made himself the anti-Pope, and nailed the 95 feces (including my execrable post on Walter Cronkite) to the wall.

BRAVO!

Says the new Pope modestly,

Will the Carnival survive this disruption? Will it wobble on for a bit and right itself?

Probably. In fact, most certainty. The great thing about the Carnival of the Vanities is that it never stays anywhere too long, and it eventually gets itself back on track. It is greater than any one stop... any one host... any one blog...

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to be sized for a hat and a ring.

I've already got the robes.

I love the smell of schisms in the morning!

UPDATE (04/19/05): This post's title was intended as satire, OK? It was generated in reaction to a Carnival of the Vanities controversy. The reference to (and picture of) an earlier Pope Benedict (XIII) is, I'm sure, purely coincidental!

Today's post titled "Habemus Papam!" is not satire.