Might Makes Righteous

When I was poor I went to the local skid-row church after drinking at the local dive because you could get free hot-dogs and pop while they harangued you about the usual bullshit. There I saw the female member of The Power Team (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) and she did her bits, which were HILARIOUS.

Anyway, the best part was the summary of her act in which she told a story about Jesus from the Christian apocrypha, which riled the locals who started yelling "NO HE DIDN'T!" She yelled back "YES HE DID!" and won the argument, as people who break ice-blocks with their foreheads often do.

Smash Head on Desk

Old Shit Life or New Shit Life?

What an odd thing to go to a party with a former bandmate and run into old acquaintances, all of them working shit jobs while I lucked into my good one.

They were all, however, much more interesting than I am. I do miss the struggling Bohemian lifestyle, but having a child precludes destroying my earning potential with the whim to be, oh, an acrobat or rock star.

Verse to Curse

Haiku of Townhall.

Includes:

Kathleen Parker

Men’s health? Women’s health?
It’s a zero-sum game, peeps!
So … weiner-take-all!

Fortunately A Gentleman Saved Her

Ogden Knish

Q-Tips are part of the human condition
An aid in pursuing de-earwaxing missions.
When you think one's used up it's still got one side more
But they're disgusting yucky when spotted alone on the floor.

Matt Furey: Universal Scourge

I dunno who this guy is, but a two-year-old thread involving him evidently upsets him people.

Internet thrills are cheap.

The Japanese Can Always Cheer Me Up

Career Change

When the time comes to really help my fellow man, I can think of no better way than to learn my medical technician's skills at the

Black Wires

Like a yokel congressman hates the NEA, I too can hate art. The Philamedelphia Artsy Whatchamadooey hosts this monstrosity, which must be carefully guarded against Archie Andrews and a big ladder. Can't recall its provenance, but clearly the artist didn't choose his transformers wisely. Yes, it's a shit photo, but the subject matter was just not that important.



On the other hand I'm awfully fond of this crazy bullshit called Circles in a Circle painted by Wassily Kandinsky in 1923. Yet it's still a shit photo:

Ad Hominem

Dumb...



...and dumber.

Angels

Via Pharyngliualallalla:



I guess my favourite thing about these angels and their AFAIK predecessors Orbs is the democratic nature of the mystical experience - with evidence! - afforded to those with a camera and without a brain.

UFOs, cryptozoological stuff, ghosts...all these need quite a bit of luck/preparation before you can get all wide-eyed and corner passers-by with drooling raving about this and that. Orbs and other focus-related stupidity are available to all, so the usual fakers of such nonsense can be bypassed by the small-timers.

In future, I will only accept my paranormal phenomena from mom & pop operations.

What I Know About Bill Richardson

Flying saucers in New Mexico? Governor Rekindles Roswell
Keay Davidson, Chronicle Science Writer
Monday, August 16, 2004

Ten years after the U.S. Air Force closed its books on the claim that a UFO crashed in Roswell, N.M., in 1947, a top Democratic Party figure wants to reopen the investigation into the cosmic legend.

Despite denials by federal officials, many UFO buffs cherish the notion that in early summer of 1947, a flying saucer crashed in rural Roswell, scattering alien bodies and saucer debris across the terrain.

Now Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, who chaired the recent Democratic convention in Boston, says in his foreword to a new book that "the mystery surrounding this crash has never been adequately explained -- not by independent investigators, and not by the U.S. government. ... There are as many theories as there are official explanations.

[...]

A Disquisition on Immigration from Brujeria

The Threequel

Hmm.

In what's become standard practice for threequels, the masters of the Pirates franchise felt that the only way they could top the previous two movies was to give us more of everything: more colourful characters, more nautical mythology, even bigger special effects, all building up to a colossal, decisive "everyone vs everyone else" battle, just like The Lord of the Rings, the Matrix Reloaded, and particularly Return of the Jedi, which this movie apes as sure as part two did The Empire Strikes Back.

Wasn't Lord of the Rings based on a book or something? They mighta had less leeway, but I could be wrong.

The Urban Rot of Philadelphia

Killing Time

I have a bunch of pictures I'm doing nothing with, so why not post 'em? This and other bits of nonsense that may follow come from the absolutely terrific art museum in Philadelphia, the name of which I'm too lazy to look up even while typing this overlong sentence.

Just Wondering

Have you ever noticed that a slightly marble-mouthed five-year-old can make "I'm ironic" sound like "I'm moronic" when she runs in circles screaming it?

Kerry and Klein: The Kotzenjammer Kids

I guess if you're still hunting for evidence that John Kerry was not the pick of the Democratic litter this is more fuel for the fire.

I really don't understand the isolation from reality that sets in among candidates.

My Hamster Will Never Ruin a Trip Again