Let The Christians Feast - Tonight We Party

Well, maybe party is too strong a verb; how about we watch a video of song that was cool back in '77, and at every high school dance everywhere for years afterwards. I am going to have to pull my 45 if this song and see what is on the flip side. I guarantee I have never listened to it.

And why has this song not had a good cover done of it? Honshui and I have posited this question to one another for years. Just read the lyrics, it could be a rap song. Or an accoustic hit as done by Uncle Cracker. Is he dead? I don't keep up with these things.

And as you know, if the video, hosted by Youtube, which is owned by Google, won't play on this blog page, which is owned by Google, then click in the middle of the picture to go directly to Youtube.

Owned by Google.

I reprove the Google! Hey, is that a meme I smell cooking?

Starry Starry Night, Paint Your Pallet Blue and Gray

All the hours I could have spent becoming a cultured person have been squandered on frivolous preoccupations. But you, you can still shake off the torpor of modern life and enjoy some brain food. Slate has a great slideshow about Van Gogh's Expressionist legacy and it is worth a look, if just to remember how powerful paintings can be.

Maybe I shud get one o' dose fancy table-top books, all big and costly, with lots o' snaps o' famous art...den I bee lookin' smart. Dat be de ticket. And yes, I am trying to talk crocodile. I don't know why. I'll stop now.

Why Do I Live In This Fucking Town?

Commenter and blogger extraordinaire KD referred me to this cartoon and the subsequent complaint in the London Free Press from one of its barely literate readers.

The letter went as such:

Comic mocked Jesus

I write in protest of the Pardon My Planet by Vic Lee, a so-called comic strip in March 31's Free Press. I find no humour in making a mockery of the precious name of Jesus. Nor is there any humour in mocking God's holy word, the Bible.

The attempt at humour refers to Jesus riding into Jerusalem. Christians celebrate His triumphant ride into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday as a very special part of the Easter celebration.

I do know that one day Lee will have to give an account before this same Jesus that he mocked.

Cliff Scott

London

How can one person be so, so very, so very...sorry Cliff, you are beyond insult. But fucktard does come close. I am, as KD put it, close to a "nuclear explosion" over both the decision of Mr. Scott to write the letter, and with the editors' decision to publish same. I can only assume they wished to point out Mr. Scott's ignorance in a very public way. Or maybe they will print any old piece of crap sent their way.

Thanks for the tip KD. I relish any chance to rant about, well, anything.

May evolution smile upon you,

The Reverend David

Monty Python Will Be Banned on Monday

Why you ask? Because Terry Jones dared to take the piss out of the chickenhawks who want to bomb Iran. His commentary will be taken out of context by Limbaugh, O'Fucktard and their ilk, and will be the cause celèbre of the chickenhawk media (are you there Peter Worthington?). So lock up your DVDs before Walmart pulls them from the stores, because only by keeping soldiers in the meat grinder can you prove how much you love them.

And on a side note...I met someone the other day who noted that there had been a hostage thingy back in the 80s in Iran. Kind of like saying that "hey, did you know that McCartney was in a band before Wings?". Oh well, to each his own history.