From the CMZ newsletter: Umande Finally Meets Mom Umande now has a gorilla mom to call his very own! Lulu, a 41-year-old female, and Umande have been getting to know each other since his arrival at the Columbus Zoo in early October. They seemed to form a bond early on. He would vocalize when he […]
Ted Haggard, the leader of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs (a very popular, massive church on the north side of town, and a big supplier of Focus on the Family shock troops), resigned yesterday after being accused of having sex with a gay prostitute. Why does it have to be like this? Why
Jack Black is the leader of the pseudo-punk Nasties in Neverending Story III (1994). The same facial expressions, the same gestures as in King Kong. Hm…he was in Waterworld, too.
Watching Prince of Egypt with Ray. What a cruel story…the only solution to conflict being death, death, death in the name of a miracle. Death is justified if your people are oppressed. (Justified…as if it were an act without a price.) Thousands of years later, the Moses story is still being carried out in the
When the Japanese Fire God, Kagu Tsuchi, was born, he burnt his mother, Izanami-no-Mikoto, to death. His father, Izanagi-no-Mikoto, killed Kagu Tsuchi, chopped him into eight pieces which turned into eight mountain gods. (My guess is these were volcanoes?) Izanagi-no-Mikoto followed his sister-wife to the land of the dead, but she’d already eaten of the
Went to the Mall again this year. Ray was a baby kitty, and I was the momma kitty. The best costume this year was mother wearing shepherdess costume (with crook), and toddler wearing sheep outfit. Little Bo Peep!
A friend of ours we haven’t seen in a while (but who emails Lee) called and left a message: “Come over, we’re moving to Iowa tomorrow.” Oh, and didn’t leave his PHONE NUMBER! And the old one is dead, and despite repeated requests through Lee hasn’t given us his new one, and only the old
Check out Monster, by Naoki Urasawa.* What can I say without giving away the plot? It’s, uh, about a serial killer. And a doctor, accused of murder, who dedicates himself to tracking down the real murderer and killing the killer himself. About two mysterious kids. Neo-Nazis. Hospital politcs. Psychology. It goes on. For those who
Hm…be upset about the fiction of James Webb, the Democratic challenger to Virginia Republican Senator George Allen’s seat, which supposedly demeans women, or be upset that Webb’s fiction is being taken for his personal treatment of women? Wait! Wait! I need to know whether Webb’s books support gay marriage before I can decide! Here’s my
I watched a little bit of the first season with Lee the other day. I don’t think I can watch too much more of it…good stuff, but too dang painful. I just wondered, does this remind anybody else of the Phil K. Dick story, “The Second Variety“?
