Saint Genevieve

Yes, they were.

 

They were killed due to a huge political/economical/cultural shift and their refusal to adapt to a more enlightened way of life. They hung on to the old ways; the old outdated religious beliefs were just a small part.

Just like the Native Americans! Those silly Injuns had it coming.

Yeah, but Muslims still scare the shit out of me. I'm sorry, but that's the way I honestly feel. When Muslims around the world rise up and root out their own loonies, I will feel much better about them. When the vast majority of Muslims accept the principle of the separation of church and state, I will feel much more secure. Until then, it's knives out.

So Muslims are scary but evangelical Christians aren't? I also find it very difficult to believe that the "vast majority" of Muslims are crazy fanatics, any more than the vast majority of Christians.

Personally, I'm way more scared by the people in our own country - in our own government, no less - who don't believe in the separation of church and state, who want to force their morality and religion on me whether I want it or not, who don't care about what happens to the rest of the world because the Rapture is coming and they're all going to get taken up to heaven, leaving the rest of us heathens to fend for ourselves. Just because they're (ostensibly) members of a religion that advocates peace doesn't make them any less frightening to me.

Fanatics are scary no matter WHAT religion they belong to - or even if they don't belong to any religion at all. (Stalin and Mao, anyone?)

Happy birthday.

Soon I'll be back on the same coast as you!

audio books: now there's some seriously stupid stuff

I once found an audio book of Johnny Cash reading the New Testament.

I LIKE NELS CLINE AND GENERALLY THINK THAT WILCO HAS UNDER-UTILIZED HIS TALENTS BY PUTTING OUT A SOFT-ROCK RECORD. KICKING TELEVISION (tHE ALBUM) IS GOOD, THOGH.

I AGREE.

Okkervil River - John Allyn Smith Sails

Feist - I Feel It All

Spoon - Don't You Evah

Wilco - Candyfloss

The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 3

I never really listened to Feist before, but The Reminder is one of my favorite records of the year. Sounds like I should check out Let It Die too...

We went to see Seamus Heaney give a reading a few years ago. We expected to be part of a small crowd, but they filled Rackham Auditorium on the U-M campus, and people were standing all around the back. That was pretty cool.

Seamus Heaney is tight with one of the English profs at U-M, as I recall - I can't remember who, though. (I've burned a lot of brain cells since my undergrad days.)

As for Beowulf, even though my man Neil Gaiman co-wrote the script, that weird animation style looks really annoying, so I think I'll give it a miss.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Several years ago, The Decemberists sold one of their songs to Hewlett Packard to be used in a commercial

I haven't seen 300, but all the stills I've seen from it look like gay porn.

... not that there's anything wrong with gay porn, but I somehow doubt that was the intent. (Or maybe it was? )

Next up: Hillary is having sex with horses, shot a man in Reno just to watch him die, and sacrifices babies to Cthulhu.

Brian Eno is awesome.

It's too spicy for me. I like korma better.

Poland - paczkis

England - Cadbury creme eggs

Germany - beer

Italy - pizza

Spain - tapas

Thailand - Pad Thai

Mexico - picadillo

India - samosas

France - pastries

That should've been a lot funnier.

Oh, are these the same as revel bars? I love those.

I hear the new record is going to be called Chinese Democracy.

I seriously can't believe that that girl had to kiss Hiro. Only on TV or in the movies, eh?

Nerds everywhere must have been like, Woo hoo!

I would totally kiss Hiro. Hell, pretty much every girl I know has a crush on Masi Oka. I don't think guys realize how many girls like nerds. (Provided that they're hygienic, of course, which many of them aren't.)

That was definitely a great episode, although I wish Mohinder would stop being so goddamn stupid, and alas, West is not dead yet.

Probably not, because if memory serves, both this thread and the Hillary thread were started by lefties...

We eat our own.

Plus he has the Chuck Norris endorsement, and that's got to count for something.

Well, there you go.

Aw, and I would've been back in Portland just in time to see them. Oh well, moving back to Portland will mean I'll get to see them a lot anyway, so no harm done.

I hope whoever is ill gets well soon.

Gillian Anderson is skinny and blonde now.

Happy belated birthday to the Bjornmeister!