So, a while back news broke that Sam Raimi, he of among other things The Evil Dead and Xena: Warrior Princess fame, had bought the rights to Noir for purposes of hot live-action-adaptation action. Naturally, since I fucking love The Evil Dead and know that Xena is supposed to be really gay, I was...trepid, certainly, but cautiously excited about ( Read more... )

Hey friends! It's time for another instalment of One-Star Amazon.com Review of Books That Are Generally Considered Actually Quite Good!!!

[studio audience: yayyyy]

( Within: Flannery O'Connor, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daphne du Maurier, Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kawabata Yasunari, Mervyn Peake, Susan Cooper, Angela Carter, and Jorge Luis Borges. Also, I get in some shots at Edith Wharton's expense. )

Sarah Palin's Magical Mystery Tour is coming to my part of the country. I don't know who she thinks she's kidding but we're not some sort of 'frontier idiots' here. They're not even frontier idiots in the frontier, because people in all places are smarter than she and her cohort give them credit for--and considering how dumb people are this is ( Read more... )

To-day I heard 'We Three Kings' on the radio. And they left out the myrrh verse, as many settings do.

It bothers me when people leave out the myrrh verse. I don't like it when people leave out that part of who Jesus was--and therefore what life is--just because God forbid the actual reason for the Incarnation, the actual harsh reality of footsore ( Read more... )

Friends and congressmen alike, there comes a time in every Marian Anglican's life when he has to deal with bullshit of a very specific kind:

Your Mary who is not the Mary of the Bible is a whore, she, like a prostitute spreads disease; she tempts men away from their true path which is Faith in Christ alone.

Prayers to your Mary are prayers that ( Read more... )

As a Christian, I take the Bible rather seriously, and so when some asshole in a stadium-sized church makes the Bible look idiotic by dragging it into his own personal hatred of women, gays, minorities, foreigners, and poor people, I feel obliged to speak out.

I tried to be nice, but...you had to drag Jesus into this.

You had to drag Jesus into this.

'There are alot of problems with the Dream Act.

1, 35 age limit too old.
2, It is ongoing - never ending.
3. Once these illegal aliens get to be citizens they will be busy sponsoring their illegal families into the country. So the number involved in the amnesty is a lot more than just the one student - you all are forgetting about their families ( Read more... )

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So I just found somebody online saying very nasty things about one of my favourite people, West German-raised Japanese musician and impresario Kajiura Yuki. In and of itself, saying that somebody doesn't like her music, or even (what this was saying) that it hasn't been as good in the year since the Kara no Kyoukai soundtrack was completed, usually ( Read more... )

Does Richard Dawkins, all-around intellectual bonnacon, genuinely not understand why it's horribly, disgustingly wrong to refer to any type of clothing that certain class of human beings regularly wears as a trash bag, or does he just not care?