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You like fuzzy bees too? Not until we get a shot of chumley's Super Bowl guitar solo nipple slip (or tomorrow. Whichever comes first.)

Wow! VC is a treasure trove! I had to go get all drooly at chaslor's portfolio again. Also Andrew Dowdall might contribute some of his amazing photography. I'm thinking of one shot in particular.

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gogo, you should pester jimmyjimmy. He's an amazing photographer.

I actually have quite a few random VC jpgs saved in my photobucket.

I like the ironic juxtaposition. (Not my shot btw. It was a steinbee self portrait that he posted on teh VC. We might need to get a release.)

I also have several Sir Stewart photoshopped versions of ction.

What a bleak and intensely beautiful film. The tenderness between the man and his son travelled like a glowing ember through the bitter landscape of the road. My heart was utterly pulverized. I am undone. See this film.

You're just using humor to allay my fear aren't you.

I'll report back in the morning.

You know the Episcopal church elected a second gay woman bishop, no? Just a little balance here. Uganda has one of the worst human rights records in history. The LRA is responsible for the kidnapping of at the very least 20,000 children for use as soldiers, prostitutes and slaves. There are many accounts of children with open cuts on their arms filled with substances and bandaged over to stimulate them to fight like guerillas. The LRA is one of the most despicable organizations in the world. For any religious group to get in bed with the Ugandan government is political suicide.

A friend and I are to see it tomorrow night. A library snafu made it impossible to read the novel beforehand. This is not the way I like to do things. I'm skeert.

Because that's what I dubbed him, and now I will forever associate his painful lake water douche with the band name.

Amish Rake Fight. And Butthole Surfers, only because an acquaintance took a spill on a jet ski and tore the hell out of himself. I must have forgotten my Tourette's meds that day, I swear.

The Ugandan government and the 'American Christianists'. Now there's an unholy marriage lifted straight from the bowels of Bosch's hell realms. You couldn't find more perfect archetypal representatives of the two (actual) primal roots of human aggression if you tried.

I become ever more convinced that religious fundamentalism and the New Atheism are parallel movements. They come from the same lack of understanding of spirituality which involves above all embracing paradox. We as humans barely know the questions to ask let alone have the answers. I am joyful exploring the mystery. You all can keep your pedantic blah blah blah.

Mostly it's what we do here at VC between Volkswagon commercials.

The dilemmas faced by couples with leftover embryos are enormous. The implications of growing embryos specifically for stem cells are complex. These are ethical issues, not religious. That issues of medical ethics become nothing more than an intellectual crowbar against religion is appalling to me.

A few thoughts... I agree that many modern day religions are thick with dogma. The unfortunate part of modern religious texts is not that they are outdated, but that are not outdated enough. The rigorous mystical maps of practice which are astoundingly similar in all religions, have in many cases been lost to dogmatic rewrites. However, throwing the baby out with the bath water doesn't make logical sense to me. Anytime you assemble bureaucracies to foster change, progress is going to be painfully slow for some, and so disconcerting for others that they will never become accustomed to the ch

After Reni's review and another conversation about the book last night, I'm going for it. Movie next week.