In less sober Memorial Day news ( Read more... )

Google Chat should have an auto-blog function...

me:  great sub-head on tor.com: Is God Really a Spaghetti Monster? Or Is It More of a Linguine-Type Thing?
    can I relate to a spaghetti monster on a spiritual level if I am gluten-sensitive?  hmmmm.

Jaye:  does the church of the FSM have transubstantiation?

me:  maybe I could request the special ( Read more... )

I think the Blog Every Day in April brigade probably had something more pithy in mind for entries, but I've got every day so far covered, I may as well go for the gold. Right? Here, have a funny family story.

So down by the grocery store my parents shop at is this gigantic cross looming over the freeway interchange.  Seriously, a gigantic cross. ( Read more... )

Mom and I have some last-minute errands to run before I skip town tomorrow.  (I scheduled another crack-of-dawn flight. Egads ( Read more... )

We're closing down for the storm this afternoon; the campus will be closed tomorrow. Folks are currently evacuating, but we probably won't. We have a very secure little house without many windows. I don't think I've ever actually evacuated for a storm in my life, but it's really a decision folks have to make for themselves ( Read more... )

So Mom and I went for the super crack this morning - a trip to The Painted Pony in La Porte. I asked Mom if she wanted to come with me to the fabric store and she was kind of indifferent to the usual places, then I said, "Or I might trek out to La Porte," and she changed her mind. The rooms full of quilter's cottons call to us, my precious calls ( Read more... )

Mom has declared that if there is no baseball involved, then the science fiction can't be spiritual, so that list we were talking about earlier? Totally wrong. Except Sisko, of course. And Babylon 5, thank goodness ( Read more... )

[Beware - random rambling and completely tangential ranting! Seriously, why do I blather about something so ridiculous?]

So, beliefnet has put up a "Top Ten Greatest Spiritual Figures in Science Fiction" without putting in any sort of disclaimer that they are actually only referencing filmed science fiction, as in movies or TV ( Read more... )

Yesterday:
me: I just skimmed a comic book review site in which they discussed an issue in which Spider-Man kills his wife by having sex with her and infecting her with his radioactive sperm.
illogicalvulcan: If that better or worse that Superman blowing Lois Lane's head off?
me: it's a reworking of the Superman title. what is wrong with these guys?   (the ( Read more... )

My mother regularly wakes me up on the weekends by shrieking.  I have 3.7 seconds of absolute panic and then I realize, "Oh, it's the baseball/football/soccer/fill-in-sport-here game."

Apparently, watching TV with Mom and me is very difficult.  We've been watching Tin Man on Sci-Fi for past two nights, and making snarky comments.  Mom and I ( Read more... )