Oh. My. God.

As if it weren't enough that Neil Gaiman's super-creepy children's story "Coraline" is being turned into a film by Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas guy). And that the movie would feature the voices of Saunders and French and Ian McShane. Now I learn that They Might Be Giants is doing the music for it. Sweet!

In Honor of the Catholic League...

...I present this song by Mojo Nixon. I would argue that this song is far more offensive than choco-Jesus, and I've been singing along to it for almost a decade (from Mojo Nixon and Jello Biafra's "Prairie Home Invasion").

It just occurred to me, is choco-Jesus offensive because it suggests that Jesus was "b-l-a-c-k?" I think that may explain a lot...

Mark Your Calanders

For those of you near the Birmingham area, remember that the Crawfish Boil is May 4-5 at Railroad Reservation Park (or what's built of it). Among other's I don't care too much for, Cracker and Collective Soul are playing. Plus, did I mention CRAWFISH BOIL!! It's a great event with great food, and it's for a good cause (I presume; don't ask me what it is...I don't do causes).

City Stages isn't until June, and the line-up is not looking too good (Poison? Are they shitting me?). I know I have to go to it, but I always end up more cranky and less drunk than the previous time I went. And they don't let you play in the fountains anymore. Stupid heath codes...

While The Catholic League is in a snit over candy, here's what they should really be decrying

From Jihad Watch

Ethiopia: Muslims beat Christian evangelist to death

Christian proselytizing is a capital offense under Islamic law. "Ethiopian Evangelist Beaten to Death by Militant Muslims: Militant Wahabbi Islamists Drag Christian Evangelist into Mosque and Beat Him to Death," from Christian Newswire, with thanks to Tom:

WASHINGTON, Mar. 29 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) has just learned that an Ethiopian evangelist named Tedase was beaten to death by militant Muslims on Monday, March 26th, as he and two young women were on a street evangelism assignment in Jimma, Ethiopia. This marks the second time in six months that Christians residing in Southeast Ethiopia have been attacked and killed by extremist (Wahabbi) Muslims.

Read it all.

Eddie Izzard - Easter and Christmas

Where's the Crown of Twizzlers?

Someone in New York decided to be funny and made a life-size sculpture of Jesus on the cross--in chocolate. The Catholic League calls it "one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever."

Really? Worse than the Inquisition? Worse than the Catholic Church's embarrassing Nazi past? Worse than Benny Hinn's hair?

For those of you confused, the bible "records" Jesus as stating that his followers will be persecuted. Normal, thinking people aren't impressed by this: he was a rogue religious cultist, one of many claiming to be the savior of the Jews, and Rome did not smile upon rebellious cult leaders or their followers. Instead, they typically crucified them. Sound familiar?

But, modern Christers, living in the richest and most religiously permissive country ever AND making up over 70% of the population of said country, have to come up with some "persecution" to convince themselves that they are good Christers (and convince followers to send money of "support" for those poor persecuted preachers). Thus, prohibiting public school administrators from authoritatively subjecting students to any form of prayer, for reasons any rational person can understand, becomes a campaign by evil secularists to take their gods out of schools. And thus, someone making fun of pagan chocolate Ishtar bunnies becomes an "assault" on Christer sensibilities.

No word yet on if James Dobson is offended, but we know that Fred Thompson couldn't be.

I see dumb people.

lgf: 9/11 Denial on Mainstream TV:

"Rosie O’Donnell is now officially a Truther. She came out today on “The View....”"

I gleaned from some of the comments that Ms. O'Donnell said that this was the "first time in history steel melted." This comment alone is funnier than any stand-up she ever did.

Just for the record:

Debunking The 9/11 Myths - Mar. 2005 Cover Story

PM examines the evidence and consults the experts to refute the most persistent conspiracy theories of September 11.

My kind of spring holiday - booze & zombies

Anthesteria

Path back to the moon passes through Decatur.

The upper stage of the Ares I crew launch vehicle will probably be built by our neighbor - article.

Pirates not Welcome

A kid in NC wears his holy Pastafarian eyepatch to school and gets sent home. Who decides what's a religion around here? Links - here, here and here.

Comments on Free Rebublic about Dobson's comments on Sen. Thompson

My favorite:

31 posted on 03/28/2007 10:47:34 AM PDT by Wormwood (Future Former Freeper):

To: gdani

Hardly. Those idiots are the same as liberal idiots - they both want the Govt sticking their noses where they don't belong. The only difference is where they want the noses stuck.

Bingo.

Frankly, applying a religious litmus test to a politician is foolish at best.

George Bush's 'Christian values" didn't prevent him from wasting money like a crackhead who won the lottery.

Personally, you can offer bull testicles to Capitoline Jove so long as you control spending, reign in State power, and keep your damn nose out of my business.

Another good one:

23 posted on 03/28/2007 10:41:07 AM PDT by PurpleMan:

To: dogbyte12
Hey knucklehead (not you, "dogbyte12")

U.S. Constitution
Article VI:

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

Once again... "but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."

Read them all.

Too true

The trouble with trying to "punish" free-spending Republicans....

From Captain's Quarters

Democrats To Propose Largest Tax Hike In History

House Democrats today will propose the largest tax hike in American history, one which will add more poor people to the tax rolls and which will further burden millions of small businesses. They will position this as fiscal discipline while refusing to trim federal spending, according to Robert Novak:

The new Democratic majority begins dancing the next phase of the tax-and-spend minuet in the House of Representatives today. Following the example set by their Senate brethren last Friday, House Democrats will adopt a budget resolution containing the largest tax increase in U.S. history amid massive national inattention.

Nobody's tax payment will increase immediately, but the budget resolutions set a pattern for years ahead. The House version would increase non-defense, non-emergency spending by $22.5 billion for next fiscal year, with such spending to rise 2.4 percent in each of the next three years. To pay for these increases, the resolution would raise taxes by close to $400 billion over five years -- about $100 billion more than what was passed in the Senate.

....

Read it all.

Rome ends well.

I'll miss the damn show.

From the 1st Assistant Director of the 2nd Unit of Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth and the Production Assistant of the video "Know Your Fryer"

More than she could bear.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, one of Islam's harshest critics and collaborator with the late (murdered by an Islamist) Theo Van Gogh - in Opinion Journal and Guernica!?.

Belief in god as a result of evolutionary biology? That's more irony than I can bear on a Saturday.

Scott Atran - We saw this guy's book at Books-a-Thousand. May have to find a copy I believe in enough to pay for.

There's hope for Europe (and Bromide, the recent Maoist convert)

Political correctness is killing our freedoms
Telegraph.co.uk

Europe's citizens must be on their guard against political correctness and moralising politicians, says the European Commission President José Manuel Barroso in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.

The former Portuguese premier and centre-Right politician is concerned that freedom can be the loser in European culture wars over climate change, cheap air travel, Islam and free speech.

"We should be aware of people who, sometimes for good reasons, try to establish what I call private moral codes, for this or that, be it climate change, religious behaviour or any kind of social behaviour," he says.

Mr Barroso, a former Maoist student firebrand who fought against the Portuguese dictatorship in the early 1970s, still regards himself as a freedom fighter, even when the calls for bans or restrictions are in a worthy cause, such as global warming or respect for Muslim communities.
...
But Mr Barroso backs the right to offend.

Read it all.

GateTree map obsession + Tobermory Carboniferous Period fossil obsession =

The Carboniferous in Alabama

VDH

A World of Difference
Can General Petraeus turn war in Iraq around?

...

But has a single commander ever made much of a difference in almost instantly turning around an entire theater?

In fact, yes. The once relatively unknown Gens. Ulysses S. Grant, Curtis LeMay and George S. Patton all found renown only after replacing their failed predecessors. Indeed, in almost every war, on occasion a single general can so radically change the pulse of the battlefield that a political victory becomes possible where once the public thought it was utterly improbable.--

Read it all.

Nausea! Heartburn! Indegestion! Upset stomach! Diarreha!

I found Tobermory's favorite recent ad - enjoy!

From JunkScience.com

Must-See Global Warming TV

As Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” becomes mandatory viewing for many U.S. school children and nears becoming the “official truth” about global warming, it comes as most welcome news that an absolutely gripping film rebuttal has made its international debut, much to the chagrin of true believers in man-made climate change.

Last week, the UK’s Channel 4 premiered a 75-minute film entitled, “The Great Global Warming Swindle.” Through interviews with prize-winning climate experts and others, this masterful documentary explains the origins of global warming alarmism; debunks claims of man-made global climate change; exposes the motivations of organizations, scientists and activists sounding the alarm; and explains why it’s been extremely difficult, if not downright dangerous, for climate scientists to question global warming orthodoxy publicly.

The entire film, which is creating quite a stir among tens of thousands of web viewers, can be viewed online at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4520665474899458831.

Read it all.

I'm for the Scot

From Breitbart.com

Al Gore Challenged to International TV Debate on Global Warming

PERTH, Scotland, March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a formal invitation sent to former Vice-President Al Gore's Tennessee address and released to the public, Lord Monckton has thrown down the gauntlet to challenge Gore to what he terms "the Second Great Debate," an internationally televised, head-to-head, nation-unto-nation confrontation on the question, "That our effect on climate is not dangerous." (http://ff.org/centers/csspp/docs/20070316_monckton.html)

Monckton, a former policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher during her years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, said, "A careful study of the substantial corpus of peer-reviewed science reveals that Mr. Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, is a foofaraw of pseudo-science, exaggerations, and errors, now being peddled to innocent schoolchildren worldwide."

...

The arena of the glittering "Second Great Debate" will be the elegant, Victorian-Gothic Library of the Oxford Museum of Natural History, which was the setting for the "Great Debate" between the natural scientist T. H. Huxley and Bishop "Soapy Sam" Wilberforce on the theory of evolution, following the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. Lord Monckton says he chose this historic venue "not only because the magnificent, Gothic architecture will be a visually-stunning setting for the debate but also because I hope that in this lofty atmosphere the caution and scepticism of true science will once again prevail, this time over the shibboleths and nostrums of the false, new religion of climate alarmism."

I don't remember how I found this - perhaps that's a good thing

Vegetarian, anti-western medicine, xster spa founded by doctors named Thrash. In Alabama. Snicker-worthy & genuinely creepy at the same time (emphases are mine).


Uchee Pines Institute was established in 1970, by Calvin Thrash, M.D., specialist in Internal Medicine (now deceased), and his wife, Agatha Thrash, M.D., board specialist in pathology. It is a non-profit, health educational and treatment facility located in the country near Seale, Alabama, 15 miles from Columbus, Georgia. Uchee Pines is dedicated to helping those suffering from the lifestyle illnesses of today that are killing millions of people in the western world every year.

Uchee Pines is committed to assisting people through the use of simple, natural methods, using exercise, vegetarian nutrition, hydrotherapy, massage, the rational and judicious use of some herbs and supplements, and firm faith in the Divine Healer.

...

What Others Have Said

• "The seminar was wonderful! Surrounded by so many strong Christians and such a great helping of faith, I’ve received such a boost spiritually, mentally, and emotionally."
• "The atmosphere was very genuine and pleasantly spiritual. You worked with all of us as ones who desired our good — the method of Jesus was very much practiced."
• "My soul has been truly blessed, I am really motivated by the healthful lifestyle and the friendliness of the staff and fellow guests. A desire has been stirred in me to "‘go and do likewise.’"

A Fairy Home Invasion

Dan Savage does a nice slam-job on Garrison Keillor, who recently wrote an article on Salon.com bemoaning the loss of the traditional family. Now I can add "hypocritical" to my usual, "Garrison Keillor is a sanctimonious religious twit."

Southern Gourmet

On Clyde's recommendation we bought Chef Frank Stitt's book. A fine Alabamian. He's speaking in Decatur Monday evening (article). May have to go. According to the article, his restaurant, Highlands Bar and Grill in Birmingham, is listed as No. 5 on Gourmet magazine's list of the 50 best restaurants in America. May have to plan an event.

Only good thing about basketball.

I don't care about college basketball, but I love the NCAA tournament. I'm not running a pool this year, which I usually do, but I am in one. With apologies to Clyde F., Go Hoyas.

Does Downtown Birmingham Need a 70,000 -seat Domed Sports Arena?

Private investors seem to think so, to the tune 0f $1.5 billion. The BJCC would get the arena, an "entertainment district," a new hotel, and some condos. Expect our dumb-ass city government to fuck this up in some way.

Of course, what we really need are Krauts making metal. Remember when we made steel here?

Henry Rollins: A Love Letter To Ann Coulter

Utterly Grotesque

Totally disturbing video of Japanese dolphin harvesting. You've been warned.

The Riches

Eddie Izzard's show, The Riches, premiered tonight on FX. I don't know what to think of it, except that I have to watch it. I can't really figure out why though. It's just bizarro.

It moves me.

I think there is a general consensus - 300 is just incredible (a fine movie site btw). I thought I'd bring together some of our links:
Tobermory's History of Thermopylae
Victor Davis Hanson's Movie Book Intro
VDH With Your Shield or On It column
VDH's lengthier analysis - Last Night at the 300
All glory goes to Tobermory for these links.
Plus: It was my destiny to play Leonidas

Looks Like Birmingham's "Central Park" Is Still On

Jefferson County has decided it is committed to Railroad Reservation Park. Building this thing would be a boon for downtown and Southside, especially if UAB goes forward with their massive greenspace project and the state government gets on board with expanding/renovating the BJCC. It would turn an eyesore, albeit historic, into a urban space worthy of its history.

If you want to see just how cool Railroad Reservation Park would be, click on the architect's site and click on current projects.

Christian Creationism

Defiling christian art with the required conclusions of foolish creationism is hilarious.

I see SCOTUS on the horizon

Appeals Court Overturns D. C. Gun Ban

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court overturned the District of Columbia's long- standing handgun ban Friday, rejecting the city's argument that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applied only to militias.

In a 2-1 decision, the judges held that the activities protected by the Second Amendment "are not limited to militia service, nor is an individual's enjoyment of the right contingent" on enrollment in a militia.

The ban on owning handguns went into effect in 1976. Read it all @ BREITBART.COM.

The Follies of Destructive Narratives

When you start applying evil intent to those who disagree with you, instead of dealing with the ACTUAL POINTS OF YOUR OPPONENTS, you get shit like this.

Rush Limbaugh, are you listening, you drug-addled blow-hard?

The Decemberists--The [Gay] Soldiering Life

Chimbley Sweep

Maybe this video doesn't really capture the true context of the Decemberists' song, but it's fun to watch nonetheless.

Credence Clearwater Creationism

ID is creationism, clear and simple.

Star Wars and Atheism

For some reason, I put in Return of the Jedi tonight. I had not really watched it since I'd seen the three prequels. As lacking as those films were in the character bonding that defined the first three movies, I was able to read in (and I fully accept that the following is just that) a few humanistic morals that the total of the 6 films leads to. They are as follows:

1. The Enlightened Defiance: Luke walked into Jabba's lair with the same open defiance that we saw with Obi Wan and his battle with General Grievous. In both, we saw a confrontation, despite the odds, of one fighting for his morals (the Republic/his friends) over those who were amoral (power-hungry bureaucrats/government-enabled criminals). In both, the moral individual stands defiant and wins.

2. The Enlightened Choice: When given a choice of ignoring "religious" visions of his loved one dying and of turning to the dark side, Anakin chose religious promises over reason. Those promises never came to be, only because of his religious zeal. However, Luke--after defeating his father in battle--chose certain death by the hands of a fascist zealot overlord over religious servitude, without thought of the fate of his friends.

3. The Enlightened Renouncement and Sacrifice: Vader, when given the choice of eternal life verses the life of his son, chose to renounce his religious servitude and chose instead to cast his mage down a pit. Doing so cost him his life, but he was able to remove the mask of oppressive religiosity (the mask that cost him his friends and his love) and see reality as it truly was once more before his death.

Of course with any folklore, modern or ancient, you can read into it as much as you want.

Herodotus and Lycurgus on display at movie house near you

300 is superb. VDH explains it better than I ever could.

Victor Davis Hanson @ City Journal:
With Your Shield or On It
Zack Snyder’s 300: a spirited take on a clash of civilizations





From Works and Days, Victor Davis Hanson @ Pajamas Media:
The “300”
(To read it all scroll down to Last Night at the 300)

I haven’t written a formal review of the “300”, since I was asked to write an introduction to the book accompanying the movie, and wouldn’t be a disinterested critic. Below are the reactions I had after seeing the premier Monday night in Hollywood, posted in NRO’s corner.

I took my son and daughter to the showing. They had a great time, especially talking to Frank Miller....

Irreducible Complexity is a Scientific Revolution!

That is, if you live in the 1920's. And the revolution was in the growing field of evolutionary biology, not in the scientifically vacuous political debate over intelligent design. I rediscovered this post from Talk.Origins that reviews how Michael Behe's "irreducible complexity" was predicted by geneticists almost 90 years before his vomit-inducing book "Darwin's Black Box." Amazing how a deluded religious kook can make a good pile of money claiming he found something that debunks evolution...something predicted by "evolutionists" decades before as a likely product of evolutionary processes (and a decade before the modern synthesis).

Great Minds Hate Alike

The Onion apparently finds Dane Cook as funny as we do.

No, that's ok Blade...

...we got this one.

Too bad I have so many whisks...

...or I would consider this beauty.

"Main Gate" For CVF/Pa2 this Spring

This story offers a great example of developmental hell. Pa2 sounds like it'll be a lot more capable than CVF. This could all turn into one giant cluster fuck if the leftists win in France. In general, I'm all for more world aircraft carriers.

Red Meat

mediocrity's milking stool

I love the Czech Republic

Václav Klaus on Catastrophic Global Warming

"Luboš Motl, a Harvard professor and physicist recently translated a refreshingly frank interview with Václav Klaus, second president of the Czech Republic, on his view of the alleged threat of global warming [HT: Drudge Report]. The original interview appeared in Hospodáøské noviny, a Czech economics daily

Q: On Wednesday, the European Commission has approved carbon dioxide caps for new cars. One week earlier, the U.N. IPCC climate panel released a report that has described, once again, the global warming as one of the major threats for the whole civilization. The Stern report about similar threats was published before that. And you suddenly say that the global warming is a myth. Try to explain, how did you get this idea, Mr President?

A: It's not my idea. Global warming is a myth and I think that every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the U.N. panel. IPCC is not a scientific institution: it's a political body, a sort of non-government organization of green flavor. It's neither a forum of neutral scientists nor a balanced group of scientists. These people are politicized scientists who arrive there with a one-sided opinion and a one-sided assignment. Also, it's an undignified slapstick that people don't wait for the full report in May 2007 but instead respond, in such a serious way, to the summary for policymakers where all the "but's" and "if's" are scratched, removed, and replaced by oversimplified theses. This is clearly such an incredible failure of so many people, from journalists to politicians... If the European Commission is instantly going to buy such a trick, we have another very good reason to think that the countries themselves, not the Commission, should be deciding about similar issues.
...
Q: Don't you believe that we're ruining our planet?

A: I will pretend that I haven't heard you. Perhaps only Mr. Al Gore may be saying something along these lines: a sane person hardly."

Read it all all @ Capitalism Magazine

Butt Trouble

Here you go Clyde!

Granny's Incantation Appears in...

...Butt Trouble.

And it goes like this:

"Ablomandelebicus, Pentoculus, Benturpenoise, Farntormion, Crisco, Dophenecta, Glabbafontonion, Smectarufus, Fontanox, Chicken Dance, Trenoctor, Pontallafamarion, Tudonox, Mellicanisis!"

It's almost as funny as:

"When Jesus was president he ate babies all the time. "

The Most Fabulous Octopus Ever

This Tremoctopus reacts to threats with pizazz!

Frank Miller on the Current Crisis

You have to read down for what he says. It almost makes up for Dark Knight Strikes Again.............. almost.

I couldn't pass this up

From the Jerusalem Post, via Jihad Watch:
Report: Assad flips out at Ahmadinejad on phone

Marvel Comics editors make political statement

Steve Rogers is dead.

VDH on 300!!!

This is grand:
History and the Movie “300”
The Greeks, the war, and everything else

Controlling my viewing pleasure.

Between getting episodes of Big Love and recently Tony Bourdain on (the still cranky) On Demand, creative online acquisition of the Squidbillies, and watching House, Arrested Development, and recently the first season of 24 on Netflix I thought we had assumed control of our TV watching. Got the Digital Video Recorder this past Friday. Oh my. We'll never watch TV on The Man's schedule again! I have recorded Rome and Battlestar Galactica awaiting my viewing pleasure. A TV-addled hermit's dream.

Redneck Cosmos

Someone Flip Jefferson's Corpse Back Over

This wins the "Replace 'Atheist' with 'Jew' and Guess the Nazi Who Said It" Award for 2007.

"It's time to stomp out Jews in Germany. The majority of Germans would like to see Jews kicked out of Germany. If you don't believe in Christ, then get out of this country."

I particularly like that I am accused of practicing "what can only be called evil."

"I don't care if they never committed a crime, Jews are the reason crime is rampant."

Sig Heil, y'all! And praise Jesus in all His civil liberty-hating glory, for as He said in Mathew 25:25,

"Verily I say unto thee, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Except for atheists: fuck them."

"Do not consult a telephone directory while driving your car "

Warning: This Column Might Give You Something to Think About: a review of the book Remove Child Before Folding (via JunkScience.com)

A new book of real-life product labels reveals that the possibility of satire is, alas, vanishing.

If you order a drink at a dockside bar, it may come with a little cocktail napkin printed with a map of the local harbor. A friend recently passed along one of these on which was emblazoned the stern warning, “Not to Be Used for Navigation.” I can only say that if you are trying to land your dory or skiff with the aid of a cocktail napkin in the first place, you are probably far beyond the reach of any warning from the rest of us.

Can Darwin Explain Jeeeezus?

Great article in the NYT on the continuing research into whether humans are hard-wired to be religious. Can evolutionary theory explain why people won't accept it?

O Canada!

A surprisingly evenhanded series of articles in the National Post about "Climate Change: The Deniers", although I prefer Dissenters since this thing has become a religion.

ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ!

In anticipation of the general release of 300 on Friday, I offer a few links to information on The Battle of Thermopylae, the hoplite, & Sparta:

300 website
Top 10 Terms to Know About Thermopylae
Thermopylae
The Graeco-Persian Wars: The Battle of Thermopylae
The Battle of Thermopylae from Herodotus
Herodotus' twenty-second logos: Thermopylae
The Hoplite Experience
The Spartan hoplite
Sparta Governmental Structure

I really must quit now, or I shall never post.

Last, but not least... yes, I know it's an SCA/ASCA site, but the History & Glossary are nice.

Ein Volk, Ein China, Ein Fuhrer!!!!!!

Looks like the DPP is really low in the polls. And I know that President Chen wants to get attention away from corruption charges. Too bad he decided to do it during a Chinese Parliament. Chen seems to do something like this everytime he gets in trouble.

Dario Argento 'The Third Mother' Clip

Voices of Reason

A BBC4 documentary will air this week that we must get our hands on - The Great Global Warming Swindle. In it film-maker Martin Durkin argues that the theory of man-made global warming has become such a powerful political force that other explanations for climate change are not being properly aired. One of the scientists involved is UAH's John Christy, a NASA guy & a climate-change contrarian of the first order (and a house favorite).
Update: and another.

Um...Dr. Wells...uh...your slip is showing...`

Jonathan Wells, the HIV denier/ID proponent who got a PhD in biology just so he could spread lies about evolutionary theory "with authority," so to speak, opened his mouth and stated the truth. I guess a one-day calender is right 24 hours in a year (if you buy into that "heliocentric theory" nonsense).

Anyway, the Cato Institute sponsored a debate between him and Michael Shermer. I'm sure it was a hoot. But then an audience member asked Wells a VERY GOOD FUCKING QUESTION: what was the alternative for the evidence for natural selection?

Well's answer:

“I don’t think I’m obligated to propose an alternate theory,” Wells publicly stated. “I don’t pretend to have an alternate theory that explains the history of life.”

In other words, my asserting that you are wrong is all I have to do. I need not present a model, let alone evidence for it.

And when Alabama blocks an Auburn field goal attempt, Alabama gets 3 points, right?

So since Wells is a fan of false dilemmas, which is he: a racist, fetus-eating pedophile unicorn or a pathetic superstitious fraud? Remember, there are ONLY two choices, and if one of them is wrong...

Parola Alla Vostra Terza Madre

Former giallo director Dario Argento (sorry, but did you see The Card Player? Old Dario has been out for the last few of his films) has re-possessed his body, slapped his wine-addled gray matter back into its natural twisted state, and finished the third of the Three Witches trilogy. Named The Third Mother, it will be released early this year in Italy; hopefully we'll get to see it here before 2010. It stars Asia, of course, and our favorite "the blood of these whores is killing me" mega-B star Udo Kier (but not as Dr. Mandel).

Those who have gotten a sneak peak at the script are pretty positive about it, and Cannes wants it ready for a special viewing. Dario has stated that being able to do the "Masters of Horror" stuff for Showtime kicked his imagination back into gear, so sacrifice something to Showtime when you get a chance. Lets hope the experience also kicked his eyes back into focus so he can return to his true gift: making perversely-lit gross-out that creepifies even us jaded horror fans.

Of course, if you haven't seen the first two movies, you should be cast into a room full of razor wire. First.

What will happen if we don't teach evolutionary theory:

I can't stop.

Bauhaus: She's in Parties


Cocteau Twins: Carolyn's Fingers


Depeche Mode: Never Let Me Down Again

A musical obsession from my personal crazyteenerhood

Swing video


Gentlemen Take Polaroids live

Quest for Bargains

Half of the CompUSA's in the counrty are closing. Six of us went to the one in Hoover to check out the prices. Nothing was on sale yet, half the staff didn't even know about the closing. I did get to see this, it's really cool, the screen looks like a printed page!