Click on the linkie for the wonder that is Apes, Lies and Ms. Henn
Living in outer space? Pretty cool! That Devil, he's a tricksy. But they ain't a-gonna make a monkey outta us, nossir! We have a creepy little anime girl to tell us the truth about how Jesus is going to send you all to HELL (and, evidently, take away all your rinse and conditioner)!!
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amused
Zac Efron Brings Home the Bacon in Footloose Redo
Let's hear it for the boy! Paramount is developing a full-blown musical remake of 1984's Footloose, with High School Musical cutie Zac Efron picking up where Kevin Bacon's be-bopping, Walkman-toting Ren left off. HSM helmer Kenny Ortega is in talks to both choreograph and direct the redo.
The original Footloose, for those so young you sicken me, concerned a rebellious newcomer's arrival in a small town that has banned dancing. (And no, it's not where Ashlee Simpson lives.)
Got that? High School Musical 2 guy (because just one high school musical was apparently just not enough) is gonna be in another version of Footloose (because, ditto).
- tiki's temper:
anxious
Chris Hitchens is a cranky old drunk who's probably gonna follow Falwell to hell a few years down the road. But we gotta give him kudos for this. No, Mainstream Media, just because some guy just dropped dead it doesn't suddenly make him A Great Man About Whom We Must Not Speak Ill. Dead or alive, Falwell was a smirking sack of shit.
Via the Squidfather.
- tiki's temper:
impressed
"I really believe that the Pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say, ‘You helped this happen.’"
--Jerry Falwell, regarding September 11.
This looked interesting. Bill Moyers featured some clips, plus and interview with Jonathan Miller, on his show last week. So, we wrote to our local PBS station about actually, ya know, getting to see the show (retitled for some reason, "A Brief History of Disbelief").
Their response:
Thank you for your interest in KCTS Television.
Our Program Director has informed me that while we will be airing "A Brief History of Disbelief," a schedule date has yet to be finalized. I will forward your comments of interest in this program on to our programming department for their consideration.
Thank you for writing.
Yeah, thankyou for writing, now go away. We knew that public television in the USA is suckerific (that is if you're not a devoted fan of stodgy BBC costume dramas), but what the hell are they scared of? It's not as if Seattle is in the Bible Belt--we a bunch of godless heathens anyway.
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bitchy
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The God curriculum
The American religious Right are increasingly turning to home-schooling, lest their children be exposed to the evils of sex, drugs or – heaven forbid – Darwin. Sally Williams reports on education the creationist way....
'We don't want people teaching our children that they come from monkeys,' says Michelle McKissick, 40, from Houston, who teaches her four children at home. What happens in biology classrooms is 'a lie', she says, before instructing me in the 'correct' view: Genesis 1.11 – not a metaphor, or a story, but fact. She firmly believes that the world is only 6,000 years old and that, consequently, man and dinosaurs (created on Day Six, along with Adam and Eve) once lived together quite happily...
But what you're wondering is, how did they cram all those monstrous dinosaurs aboard Noah's Ark????
And as for the vexing question of how Noah got a brachiosaurus, an animal that could have weighed up to 33 tons and eaten 3,000lb of green plants a day on to the Ark – 'He took the young ones. That would make the most sense.'
See? They were baby dinosaurs.
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indescribable
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annoyed
Like this latest entry from the J Disney store's "Stitch o' the Month Club" series. It's Stitch with his evil little guardian devils on either shoulder, giving him loads of bad advice.
What's kewl about this figure is that (1) he gots suction cups, so you can squooge him on the inside of your car and he can look like he's pressing his little Stitchie nose against your window, and (2) despite balancing devils, suction cups and all, he can actually balance on his own little rear paws! Truly, the United States if falling dearly behind Japan in Advanced Plushie Technology.
- tiki's temper:
accomplished
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There are, as the late Carl Sagan might've put it, billions and billions of Stitchie cell phone straps manufactured for the Japanese market. (We suspect there are some kind of civic measures over there pertaining to the legality of cellular devices that are not sufficiently bedecked with kawaii.) Nonetheless, this is one of our favorite phone trinkets. This is based on a very cute sequence from the Lilo & Stitch TV show, where, while Stitch momentarily struggles with his conscience, who should appear perched on his shoulders--NOT, as with most cartoon characters, a mini angel and mini devil--but rather *two* battling chibi devils. Perfection!
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energetic - Elvis has left the building:Paul Westerberg - Besterberg
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