Psychopomp and Circumstance

I think most people are pretty okay if you own a house. maybe it's when you own all the houses that we start to raise some mild objections

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.

Can we go back to faceless corporations? Now that all the corporations have faces, all I can think about is punching.

Tangent: can Wolverine ever be considered unarmed? Can most of the X-Men?

Clown nog

A bright red cardinal sits on top of the Sideview mirror of a car

The Cardinal jumps down to look at himself in the mirror

The cardinal begins furiously attacking his reflection in the mirror

“Look at that bird”

A Play In Three Acts

Oh yeah sure, post child Nog, instead of adult Nog.

(That one went too far)

Drinking from the nog hose.

I think we should start abbreviating pornography as “nog”

But if you have someone in mind, I promise I don’t know you well enough to give you shit about it if I hate them.

Was hoping to avoid that.

Even the video essayists I enjoy are kind of bad.

Are there any good video essayists?

If I had a dollar for every person who asks how defense attorneys sleep at night, I’d be able to pay my student loans. If I had a dollar for every person who asks how prosecutors sleep at night, I could maybe buy a pack of gum. Broken society.

I became a Catholic lector. I had to read the Bible closely.

My unsubstantiated hunch is that its disruptions extend beyond mere loss of sleep.

Comic. [Person with long hair announcing news. There are images of a sun with a smiley face labelled “last week” and a sun with a frowny face labeled “today.”] PERSON: A warning for solar flares and geomagnetic storms has been issued after new images from the solar and heliospheric observatory show that the big smiley face on the sun has turned into a frown.

Solar Warning

xkcd.com/3215/

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

Did*

No because she thought (and so do I) that that kind of thing wasn’t done anymore.

My grandmother used to use this as an example of how much better things are now.

Lemme try.

The venture capitalist tripped into a wood chipper.

I dunno, I liked the way that one ended.

We’re being puppeted from beyond the grave by a dead religion.

And leave me alone with your “that’s not real Christianity” bullshit. You think you’re the only Christian who thinks that about other Christians worshiping and practicing wrong? Grow up. Progressive Christianity is Christianity. The Southern Baptist convention is Christianity. Catholicism is Chri…

The average American has been harmed so much more by Christianity than they have ever been by Islam. The ongoing, baseline harms of American society are rooted in Christianity.

Honestly this exactly our relationship. She understands that pretty much every friendship I have started with somebody making me uncomfortable. I'm very appreciative of people who can do that well.

Love the energy, but we like this coworker. This was an anti-me post not an anti-her post.