WANT

Has it really been 10 years since The Big Lebowski?

Does the Dude still abide?

Depp In This Style: 10/6

Ooh yes, please!

Admittedly, it might be hard to get Isabel to see this movie, since she doesn't always get along well with Tim Burton, and she didn't like Tom Petty's video from the mid-Eighties.

So ... Johnny Depp, yes, especially when he's a pirate, but Tim Burton, maybe not. And the trailers for Corpse Bride and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory didn't help much.

New Category!

Introducing the category "God Luke She's Your Sister," wherein I shall file things heavy with irony.

And not that pansy sarcasm that masquerades as modern irony, neither. I'm talking full-blown "Zeus knows Jacosta is no blood kin of mine, and I will put out my eyes and cut out my tongue if I'm wrong" irony. Irony with blood in it.

Irony like claiming Obama is weak on foreign policy, while propping up John McCain based on his five years' POW status, only for McCain to turn around and talk about Chekoslovakia or tensions on the Iraq-Pakistani border.

Reverse Magazines

Over at Something Awful, they're having a reverse-magazine week. In among such titles as Unpopular Mechanic, U.S.S.R. News & World Report, and Unscientific American, this is my favorite:

Damaging My Calm

Over at Pharyngula, PZ Myers is pulling out all the stops on the assholes who are threatening his life over this whole communion wafer flap. He's taken to posting particularly inane or idiotic emails, along with people's names and IP addresses.

An excerpt from one posted earlier today:

Here are some men and women

who mocked God :

[J]ohn Lennon (Singer):

Some years before, during his interview with an American Magazine, he said:

'Christianity will end, it will disappear.

I do not have to argue about that. I am certain.


Jesus was ok, but his subjects were too simple, today we are more famous than Him' (1966).

Lennon, after saying that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, was shot six times.

Really? That's all you've got? Lennon didn't say anything more damning than that in over twenty years as a celebrity? Okay, we'll go with that, then.

First off, here's what (Wikipedia says) John Lennon really said:

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I do not know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary.

So there's inexact quoting to be getting on with.

And secondly, John Lennon said that thing he said in 1966, prompting a whole heck of a lot of album burnings here in the buckle of the Bible Belt. He was shot four times by Chapman in early December, 1980. (I was almost two.) More than fourteen years passed between his comments and his shooting, and this bozo wants to cast it as an immediate and awesome sign of divine vengeance.

Yeah, real convincing argument you've got going there, buddy.

Who was it said we don't get out of life alive? Morrison?

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Whoa, Dude

You been holding out on me.

You got all this great space underneath that noisy box you watch all the time.



Why you do me this way, bro? Why you hold out on me? That ain't no way to treat a sister!

Sheesh!

Small World

I found someone familiar in the oddest of places today.

I have been following Slacktivist's Left Behind critique for some time now. He's gotten to the last few pages of the first book, in which the Antichrist is finally getting around to being a villain and killing people.

With a gun.

As a link from Slacktivist shows, he was a lot scarier when he was just a boy:



The Omen, 1976.

Patrick Troughton, ladies and gentlemen. I thought the priest looked familiar. And I also have a deeper understanding now of Good Omens.

Via.

Seven!

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Seven little skunklets. Two very smelly girls.

Wow.

Next Time Someone Asks...

... if you're a god,


more cat pictures

you say YES!