Well, I didn’t want to keep the Kansas post at the top, lest the two people in Kansas who use the internet harness a tornado, stuff it in a Fed-ex envelope, and weather-bomb my house. But I don’t really have any stories to tell or anything, so I figured I just throw some stuff out there.
1) This I straight copied from Broadsheet: Hey kids - come have some Rosemary / Garlic Fries, Resurrection Ale(s), Ozzie(s), and some laughs with Broadsheet on Tuesday. Or, just laugh at Broadsheet - she’s gettin old(er).
Grotto bar at Brewer’s Art. I’ll be there between 5:30 and 6:00 and hopefully we’ll be able to snag a table in the catacombs and hang out on a weeknight when it’s not too crowded.
If y’all come - it’ll be cozy. I think we can make the place ours if we want to.
ACWF and I will be there, proving that I actually have a fiance, and don’t just make out with an old sock every night. Oh yeah, you heard me right fellas, we make out every night.
2) Speaking of my tonsil-hockey partner, we were watching a show on A&E last night, and it was some sort of documentary about Satanism. At first I was pretty upset at the documentary, because it allowed rectal-spelunking psychologists and grump-dunking preachers to hold court over the topic. “Repressed memories” and “psychotherapy” were bandied about like they were any type of credible, and not a single person on the documentary stood up and said, “These retards are clearly retarded.” But then, at the end of the documentary, a professor of theology from a Chrisitan college essentially bitchslapped all the people who were using the Satanism fad of the late 70s to line their pockets and stuff their coffers with the cash of the idiotic people who bought into all the repressed memory crap and actually believed/lied to themselves into thinking that they had been raised in a Satanic cult. There was one baptist preacher, especially, who actually gave me chills, he was so fuckin’ crazy. He would keep his “flock” in “couseling” against “Satan” for up to 19 hours at a time, telling them what to think, telling them what had happened to them, feeding them “repressed memories” and then performing “excorcisms” on them. And I was thinking about it last night and this morning, and I really think that religion has the capacity to do as much evil as good. And I know that’s not exactly a news flash, but I think lots of members of most religions have been complicit in allowing the crazies to be the most vocal. Where are the reasonable religious folks to say, “Yes, we have a book that says the Earth is 5,000 years old, but science has mountains of evidence that suggests otherwise, but that doesn’t negate that Jesus had some pretty groovy ideas, so all you crazies just sit down, and shut up.” or “Yes, we know some of our fellow Muslims are engaged in a Holy War against the West, but our religion is a religion of peace, and love, and these assholes are screwing it up for us. I’m sure you Christians don’t want to be associated with the Christian child-beaters, Christian wife-rapists, and Christian clinic-bombers, just like we don’t want to be associated with the suicide-bombers and jihadis.”
So, I guess this is my long way of asking: Resonable religious folks, there’s a lot more of you than of the crazies. Why don’t you speak up more and call them on their bullshit?
3) There’s really not a third thing.
