I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad, I got sunshine in a bag

[thorne_scratch]

I bought Neil Gaiman’s “Fragile Things” recently, which I am quite enjoying. Neil Gaiman is one of those authors who handles both short stories and novels equally well, which is damn hard to do. While at the bookstore, I also found and leafed through the first issue of Battle Pope.

...Why didn’t anyone ever tell me there was such thing as a comic

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[teenygozer]

Thus endeth a great wedding. Can't wait for Wedding Part 2, better bone up on your Washington DC landmarks!

I've been watching an extremely bizarre Japanimation on Adult Swim called Trinity Blood in which the Roman Catholic Church is a major military power that fights vampires with karate kicks and futuristic weaponry. Except mostly they talk a lot and wear lots & lots of Infant-of-Prague-like clothing.

[thorne_scratch]

You know, I've had so many out of the country vistors lately, that I've learned to give a quick and dirty tour of the most obvious DC monuments, just by driving along the GW Parkway. This will probably not stop me from just making up random stuff about them, though.

I've heard of that, actually! I think Flidget was talking it up to me one day, although it is possible she was refering to another show where the Pope was kind of an uke and the Catholic Church was a vast military force. It is possible there is more than one show like that from Japan. I might have to stay up long enough to watch it, now.

[flidgetjerome]

Nope! Amazingly we are all talking about the same particular massively entertaining Japanese misconception of the Vatican. (I do wish they'd branch out a little more, because their take on any religion is always the good crack. Hellsing will ever remain dear to my heart for being under the impression we actually pray to the Queen over here and, the more I think about it, I am starting to suspect that Final Fantasy 7 is actually what Japan thinks Judaism is like.)

Also the uke!Pope has an amazing hat. As do most of the Cardinals though, sadly, not any of the main characters.

I think I've mentioned that before but it bears repeating.

[teenygozer]

I thought the Pope was the blonde chick with the eyepatch, but somewhere along the line, I got the feeling that's not a chick, he's a very pretty guy? Or is the blonde chick with the eyepatch a cardinal and not the Pope? But yes, an AMAZING hat. Not to mention 32 layers of heavily belaced and bejewelled clothing.

I have sat through 3 fascinating episodes so far and I still can't make out what the hell is going on beyond Vampires = Bad, but it shure is purty to look at.

[flidgetjerome]

I've only seen two episodes and . . . I think three chapters of the manga (it's windlion's fandom, not mine, but she's been trying to pull me in) but I believe the hot chick with the eyepatch is a Cardinal and the little weepy thing with the huge hat is the Pope.

[thorne_scratch]

I've heard Xenogears is good for the fucked up religion symbolism, but I've never played it. Catt did show me some weird ending thing from it where there was a guy and girl running naked and it was supposed to be significant. And I think Silent Hill, particularly the second one, has some intriguing takes on things. Wholly depressing, but intriguing. SH2 seems so very Catholic to me. GUILT. HEAPING PILES OF GUILT.

What, you don't actually pray to the Queen?

I'm going to browse google and see if I can find pictures of this amazing hat. What kind of weapons do the cardinals favor?

I've been waiting for your underwear icon.