Forgive me, Loyal Leisurites - you surely don't paw these pages to be lambasted with lameness taking form of Uncy Sid's rants about things other than travel, imbibements, cultural stewardship, and tedious self-promotion. However. Dire times inspired my mind, I find - time to inscribe a line. This, the first of a mercifully-broken-apart series; I can only hope, will be tolerated adequately to conjure thoughts within y'all's nuggets: A sigh, at times, seems even too much to muster. I can't take what's happening; can't figure it out or fix it or explain it to [...]
I haven't been to a movie in so long that I can't remember the last one I went to. Borat, maybe? But last weekend Sluggo and I went with a friend to see W. Our friend hated it, but we thought it was okay. It wasn't the serious documentary our friend apparently wanted it to be, and it wasn't a point-at-the-monkey laugh riot either. I thought the music editing was brilliant, and I thought the complete absence of Neil Bush was bizarre. If all you knew about the Bush family came from this movie, you would not even know that [...]
In today's installment of Armagideon Time's Halloween Countdown, the esteemed Dr. Thaddeus Bodog Sivana reads a passage from the Dictionary of Popcult Shorthand ... Reductive? Certainly. Culturally insensitive? Probably, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a better resource for drag-and-drop plot devices that won't tax your audience's thinkin' muscles. Leave the detailed explanations of syncretistic religion, the Loa , and their interdependant relationships to the anthropologists, this is what the audience expects... ...so why let a little thing like accuracy [...]
can i set the stage real quick with some throwback pharcyde please? [log on to DCtoBC.com to jam it] thank you. so you've done great work. that liquor courage did the job, helping you grow you the balls that you needed to ask that extra fly girl who looks similar to the dark-skinned beauty in that frontin' music video for her number. "let's kick it sometime soon," you say with a smile. she's with it. and you feel like rocky did when he smacked [...]
Presumably inspired by the slavish and unquestioning devotion he receives from his fans, Carlos Santana is thinking of giving it up to go and establish a church in Hawaii . It's not clear if he thinks that Hawaii is especially godless, or if it's just that you might as well pick a warm place to semi-retire; the church bit, though, is clear: "I'm not sick of what I do, but I find that God gave me the gift of communication even without my guitar and with the ability to get people unstuck with certain sections [...]
Pssssst, Irwin ... can you hear the sweet, sweet music ? (RealAudio) There's more than one false messiah out there.
Pentecostal "mouthpiece of God" from Plano, Texas, Doyle Davidson. Right out of a Norman Rockwell painting, isn't he? This gentle and unassuming ol' boy triumphantly screams from the rooftops how much he loves his new wife, warmly offers kudos to a member of his congregation for that nice e-mail he sent and offers neighborly assistance to a younger congregant who looks as though he's getting ready to puke all over himself. "The Devil and Doyle Davidson" ? Folks, the Devil is [...]
Alright, technically, Ray Boltz came out before Clay Aiken but that just goes to prove how slippery these homosexual chappies are, doesn't it? The name Ray Boltz might not mean much to you, but he's the guy who wrote one of the biggest Christian rock hits, Thank You. (It even got an airing during the mourning for Mother Theresa.) Given the fundamentalist American Christian position on man-on-man touching, for them, it's a bit like us discovering that Billy Bragg was a Young Conservative. Talking to the Washington Blade , Boltz said [...]
After a month long sojourn in rural New Jersey (holla, Freehold!), I'm back to the old blogamawhosits world, and frankly I'm feeling a little left behind. That internet moves fast, I tell ya, and you have to be on top of the latest meme or you'll seem, you know, UNcool. So I spent the whole day today catching up on blogs, news, sudden underground phenomenons, and sarcastic nasty commentaries - and finally I discovered what I've really been missing. THIS: Speaking of minds renewed, how [...]
Ted Nugent has taken time out of his busy slaughtering schedule and offered to protect Paul McCartney when Macca goes to Israel: "Regardless that Paul and I have our obvious social, cultural, and culinary differences outside of music, I will not bend or waiver to voodoo religious whackjobs and neither should Paul." "It would be my pleasure to keep this legendary musical hero safe from terrorists and mad men, and then buy him a nice dinner of tofu. I'm Dirty Harry with a ponytail, and I'm at Paul's service." You might want [...]
What to write about? My bi-weekly dilemma. What's on my mind? Unemployment, mostly my own. One can only stretch the term "freelance" so thin before one is actually just dicking around on Facebook all day. What else? This whole Sarah Palin thing. And believe me, I hate that her name should even appear in one of my blog posts, forever tainting it. I would never wear one of those " Not My President " buttons, as that would put Bush's vacuous mug square on my lapel every day. Still, it's more [...]
wow. best throwback video. word to ebaumsworld.com. they suck now, but back in the day, they were the go-to source. TOO many quotables. "it's dat woo, WOOOOO!" "yea, i got it on my car!" "it's just for decoration." "dat's only in da mornin'. you 'posed ta be up cookin' breakfast or somethin' by then, so, that's like an alarm clock. woo WOO!"
Hi y'all, I've been throwing a few bombs your way lately, haven't I? I got an e-mail from one you last night expressing disappointment with a throw-away line that I left in my " This I Believe " list. It was a joke, albeit a not very good one. One of the limitations with the written word is that it's hard for the reader to see my wink, my tongue in my cheek. Short of using emoticons, something that I absolutely refuse to do, it's pretty hard to get tone of voice accross. My initial reaction was to [...]
With all the hoopla regarding the circus of pain and stupidity known as the 2008 presidential election, it's easy to forget that there are other electoral contests being held this November 4. With that in mind, the two candidates for the state representative seat in my little corner of Boston's northwestern suburban sprawl have been packing my mailbox to the brim with reminders of what's really at stake. The answer is "not that much." It's a symptom of the problems of living in a de facto one-party state. Not that I'd ever vote Republican, [...]
Someone tell the NY Times what their daily print run is doing to these people .
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Madonna made her initial foray into the pop world just around the time I started buying albums at the nearby Pathmark, and if there was one parental mandate I was to follow in my record-purchasing, it was this: No Madonna albums . I grew up under the guidance of super-Catholic parents, and my mother was not all that pleased by the whole Madonna/virgin/wayward bride/Holy Mary Mother Of God juxtaposition afforded by her imagery at the time, hence the ban. (I should probably confess here that I cheated on this a bit when I bought the 12-inch single for Madonna's [...]
Let's hope that this is the last Madonna world tour for a while - at least long enough for her to think of something new. Because if she's so out of ideas she's reduced to trying to generate attention by shouting 'poo, willy, wee' ("by dedicating Like A Virgin to the Pope") while playing in Rome. Amusingly, even the Italian press couldn't seem arsed to work up a froth about it: "At the Roman leg of her tour, Madonna didn't miss the opportunity for a provocation that will certainly be discussed," Corriere della Sera [...]
A church in Columbus, Ohio has taken the lyrics of Katy Perry's I Kissed A Girl and amusingly turned them into a wayside pulpit which condemns people to the fire-filled pits of hell for all eternity where their bodies might burn and they know pain and horrors forever. This must seem pretty harsh to anyone passing by who doesn't know of the song. Especially if they're a bloke. "Goddammit, when did that become a sin? And does it matter that it was on the cheek?" The preacher tries to make himself sound like a [...]
Lost amid the overexcited chatter that John McCain's running mate is a young woman from Alaska is the fact that John McCain's running mate is a young woman from Alaska with batshit crazy religious views on par with our current batshit crazy President. That's right, Sarah Palin wants you to help her deliver God's natural gas to the rest of the nation. Just skip ahead to around 4:05 on the video in the link above to see what I'm talking about. You know, I went to Catholic school my entire life, and [...]
Cliff Richard has sort-of, kind-of come out, publishing an autobiography My Life, My Way in which he talks about his relationship with Father John McElynn. He doesn't say he's a boyfriend, but calls him a blessing and "my companion". It's all quite sweet - there's no suggestion that it's a sexual relationship in any way, but Cliff does make it clear he's not one of those Christians who somehow read the Bible as instructing hate: 'Same sex marriages are perhaps a modern example of how things have changed', Sir Cliff said. 'Gone [...]
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