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| Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 | | 11:08 am |
| | Wednesday, January 11th, 2006 | | 5:04 am |
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| | Thursday, January 5th, 2006 | | 7:30 pm |
A Tardy Feliz Navidad
Well, I almost completely skipped the holidays this year; but for better or worse, decided to put up decorations a few days before Christmas...... Well, I considerably scaled down this year. Adornments consisted of my front window (barely) and my 7ft tree as well as my 3 1/2' "Charlie Brown Special". And considering my lack of funds, I was reduced to making/painting/creating most of the ornaments to fill out the 7' tree in a color scheme I've never tried before. The end result solved any questions my neighbors may have had regarding my sexual orientation. Well, here are a few shots of the trees before I take them down.   ( click for more pics ) | | Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 | | 1:44 am |
DC Comics One Year Later Solicitations Revealed
Well, they just released the first solicitations for the new DC Universe post-Infinite Crisis. All the core titles continuity skip ahead to a year later from their previous issue and to say that nothing is the same is an UNDERSTATEMENT. Some of my predictions look like they've come to pass while others are completely different! Spoilers: ( Read more... ) | | Tuesday, November 1st, 2005 | | 1:21 am |
| | Thursday, October 20th, 2005 | | 7:09 am |
| | Monday, August 29th, 2005 | | 6:52 am |
| | Sunday, August 28th, 2005 | | 11:23 pm |
Got my Buffy Card Suspended
Tonight, UPN was airing a Buffy repeat that I'd seen at least a few times; but apparently TOTALLY missed a couple of major points. I never realized that Anya's death was foretold from the beginning of the season in the episode "Selfless". When Anya's return to being a Vengeance Demon results in the the slaughter of a frathouse full of guys, she fights Buffy, hoping Buffy would kill her. When Willow contacts D'Hoffryn to intercede, Anyanka asks him to undue what she had done, knowing that the price for a Vengeance Demon's wish is death. Instead of killing Anyanka, D'Hoffryn kills Halfrek instead, knowing it would hurt Anya much more. When Anya tells him that he should have killed her, he said "Oh, I wouldn't worry about that. From beneath you, it devours. All good things come in time." OK...well, technically there's nothing officially stating that was a prophetic statement; but it works for me. Hmmm....I just realized that in the just published new Buffy and Angel comics which has been decreed canon by Joss Whedon in continuing both stories, Spike encounters Halfrek in Europe......um....I hope they didn't forget she was dead and have an explanation for her return to "life". Of all the episodes of both Angel and Buffy, there have only been two things that I have vehemently hated Joss for doing....killing Anya and killing Cordelia.  | | Monday, August 8th, 2005 | | 5:23 am |
Peter Jennings 1938 - 2005
He announced in April that he had Lung Cancer. I had no idea that it was that bad. I grew up watching ABC World News and Nightline as far as I can remember. Last time I think I watched him was when he read out the names of the military who've died in the Iraqi War. It's sad and surreal at the same time =( | | Friday, August 5th, 2005 | | 6:22 am |
| | Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005 | | 6:13 am |
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| | Sunday, July 31st, 2005 | | 11:08 pm |
Lost: 2nd Season News
Sensational Sneak Preview of Lost By Ed Martin What's in Store on Television's Most Talked About Drama
"Who survives [the raft attack], how they survive, where they end up and how they reconnect with the other characters" will drive the story Beverly Hills, CA – From the opening moments of the first episode of its sophomore season, Lost won't waste a minute in providing further information about the major storylines on the show. What's at the bottom of that tunnel? Who are the Others? What the heck is the island all about, anyway? "Right out of the gate we're addressing some of the big mysteries of the island," Lost co-creator and executive producer Damon Lindelof tells MediaVillage.com. "We'll go right inside the tunnel, and what you'll see in there changes everything." Indeed, whatever they discover in that tunnel "will change the fundamental state of existence" of the characters, Lindelof continues. Viewers won't see quick glimpses of strange things but rather will get a good long look around. "We're erring on the side of giving away too much rather than too little," Lindelof says. "They found that hatch in episode 10. Thirteen episodes later they opened it up. It's got to be good." What the characters won't find inside, Lindelof promises, are aliens, a time travel portal or "a ship they can blast off in." Whatever is in there will involve those mysterious numbers that led to Hurley's lottery win and streak of bad luck in that character's famous backstory. "Right from the start, in the season premiere, the numbers become a fundamental plot point for the season," Lindelof says. "People aren't going to be disappointed in how we use them." He says the producers of the show wanted to make certain that whatever the characters find inside the tunnel will be "great, cool and risky." But, Lindelof cautions, he can "guarantee some people are not going to like what they find in there." While some characters are exploring the tunnel, others will be dealing with the aftermath of the destruction of the raft and the kidnapping of little Walt by a band of creepy men who are presumed to be among the community of Others on the island. "Who survives [the raft attack], how they survive, where they end up and how they reconnect with the other characters" will drive the story through the first seven or eight episodes next fall, Lindelof adds. Lindelof also confirms that the character played by newcomer Michelle Rodriguez will be someone who was seated in the back of the plane when it exploded and has been living on another part of the island. He will not say whether she has been living alone or with other survivors. He also says that Boone, the one main character who died last season, will definitely stay dead. "So many times in genre shows when you kill someone off they come back. On Lost the rules are different. When you're dead, you're dead!" Lindelof declares. The other big nagging mysteries in the story – why did Ethan kidnap Claire, what happened to her while she was held prisoner, what if anything happened to her baby – will be addressed later in the season, Lindelof says. "But we have bigger priorities first: The hatch and Walt's kidnapping." He says the story about the kidnapping of Walt is especially intense, because "a child taken from a parent by strangers is the scariest thing of all." When the Others take Walt, there is no Amber Alert, no Fox News Channel and CNN reporting the story, nowhere for his father to get help. There is only fear, frustration and rage. Early episodes, Lindelof says, will deal with the repercussions of this harrowing incident. "That is the big mystery of the island," Lindelof explains. "Who are these other people and what do they want?" Lindelof welcomes ABC's decision to move Lost from 8 to 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday, because more people are available to watch television. He also thinks the show is "very intense" and says, "children should not be watching," which they are apt to do at an earlier hour. "By the finale of season two viewers will know why the plane crashed," Lindelof says. He envisions Lost running "somewhere in the neighborhood of 4-5 seasons." "I know what the ending [of the story] is," he concludes. "At a certain point you can only stall [the audience] so long." | | Tuesday, July 12th, 2005 | | 2:15 pm |
Harry Potter Books Sold by Accident
2 hours, 6 minutes ago COQUITLAM, British Columbia - A handful of people in Canada got a sneak peak of the latest Harry Potter book, but a British Columbia Supreme Court judge ordered them to keep it a secret. The book was sold to 14 people who snagged a copy of J.K. Rowlings' much anticipated "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," when it landed on shelves last Thursday at a local grocery store. The book, officially set for release this coming Saturday, has been shrouded in secrecy and its debut has been highly orchestrated to enable everyone — readers, reviewers, even publishers — to crack it open all at once. It's the sixth in Rowling's seven-book fantasy series on the young wizard. But the store slipped up and sold 14 copies before realizing its mistake. "It was an inadvertent error on behalf of one of our staff," said Geoff Wilson, a spokesman for the Real Canadian Superstore. He said the books were quickly removed. Justice Kristi Gill last Saturday ordered customers not to talk about the book, copy it, sell it or even read it before it is officially released at 12:01 a.m. July 16. The order also compels them to return the novel to the publisher, Raincoast Book Distribution Ltd., until the official release. At that time it will be returned to them. As an added incentive, Raincoast will include Rowling's autograph and a gift pack. | | Saturday, July 9th, 2005 | | 3:10 pm |
Metaphor Of The Decade!
Nearly 1,500 Sheep Jump Off Cliff in TurkeyAbout 450 Are Killed, Cushioning the Fall for the Rest ISTANBUL, Turkey (July 8) - First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, Turkish media reported. In the end, 450 dead animals lay on top of one another in a billowy white pile, the Aksam newspaper said. Those who jumped later were saved as the pile got higher and the fall more cushioned, Aksam reported. "There's nothing we can do. They're all wasted," Nevzat Bayhan, a member of one of 26 families whose sheep were grazing together in the herd, was quoted as saying by Aksam. The estimated loss to families in the town of Gevas, located in Van province in eastern Turkey, tops $100,000, a significant amount of money in a country where average GDP per head is around $2,700. "Every family had an average of 20 sheep," Aksam quoted another villager, Abdullah Hazar as saying. "But now only a few families have sheep left. It's going to be hard for us." Associated Press, 07/08/05 09:30 EDT | | Friday, July 8th, 2005 | | 5:42 am |
| | Monday, July 4th, 2005 | | 12:42 pm |
Not Revolutionary, but Pivotal Evolution
United Church of Christ Endorses Gay MarriageResolution Not Binding on Individual ChurchesBy DOUG GROSS, AP ATLANTA (July 4) - The United Church of Christ's rule-making body voted overwhelmingly Monday to approve a resolution that endorses same-sex marriage, making it the largest Christian denomination to do so.The vote is not binding on individual churches, but could cause some churches to leave the fold. Roughly 80 percent of the members of the church's General Synod voted to approve the resolution. They debated for about an hour before voting. On Sunday, a committee of about 50 United Church of Christ representatives gave nearly unanimous approval to the resolution, recommending that the General Synod approve it. It was supported by the UCC's president, John H. Thomas. Traditionally strong in New England, the liberal denomination of 1.3 million members has long been supportive of gays and lesbians. The committee also voted against an alternative resolution defining marriage as between one man and one woman. A small group of conservative congregations had proposed that ammendment, and suggested that approval of gay marriage could lead to the church's collapse. The church was criticized last year for its television advertising campaign featuring a gay couple, among others, being excluded from a church. CBS and NBC rejected the 30-second ads. In the early 1970s, the UCC became the first major Christian body to ordain an openly gay minister. Twenty years ago, it declared itself to be ''open and affirming'' of gays and lesbians. The same-sex resolution was submitted by the Southern California and Nevada (WOW) Conference. The resolution specified that bisexual and transgender persons merit the same support and protections as gays and lesbians. UCC churches are autonomous, meaning the General Synod does not create policy for its more than 5,700 congregations. No hard data exist on how many gays and lesbians are in the UCC. The Rev. Rebecca Voelkel of Cleveland, national interim director of the UCC Coalition for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns, said about 2,000 people are on the group's mailing list and about 1,000 clergy or seminarians are gay. The denomination has 10,323 ordained ministers. | | Sunday, July 3rd, 2005 | | 7:34 pm |
for those that can't separate Bush and Christian Coalition from Christianity itself - pls Read
'Reclaim Our Faith': America's Pulpit Politics Take A Left Turn Sun Jul 3, 4:31 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - America's moderate and progressive evangelists, outgunned for years by the mighty "religious right," are demanding their own share of the political action. Their mantra, in a building campaign against conservative Christians, a key constituency of President George W. Bush, is: "Since when was God pro-war, and pro-rich?"There is a silent majority of moderate and progressive Christians out there and other people of faith who have felt completely left out of the conversation," Jim Wallis, a leading evangelical activist, told AFP. Christians opposed to Bush, the most overtly religious president of modern times, say his war in Iraq, and tax cuts which they claim favor the rich, do not square with a faith which teaches followers to love their neighbor. "We can no longer stand by and watch people speak hatred, division, war and greed in the name of our faith," said Patrick Mrotek, founder of the new Christian Alliance for Progress. "We must reclaim our faith."Left-leaning Christians shudder at the prominence of conservative televangelists like Reverend Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, who preside over vast political empires.
They are seething over comments Robertson made on the ABC News Show "This Week" in May, which implied "liberal" judges were more of a threat to America than "a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings."But Republicans say their politics are deeply rooted in faith. "We are called by our Creator to use this gift of freedom to build a more compassionate society -- where families are strong, life is valued and the poor and the sick can count on the love and help of their neighbors," Bush said in a satellite address in June to the Southern Baptist Convention, one of the most influential conservative evangelical groups. Pulpit politics in America came under renewed scrutiny after exit polls suggested that voters prioritising "morals" may have swung last November's election to Bush over Democratic challenger John Kerry. And they are about to be thrust right back into the political arena, as religious groups of all stripes blitz the airwaves in the fight for the Supreme Court seat left vacant on Friday by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement. Nomination battles could turn on issues like the separation of church and state and the fight over whether abortion should remain legal. Religion and politics are perhaps more intertwined in the intensely religious United States than in any other developed Western nation."Religion has enormous political power -- it is very loud, it gets access to the press and to government power," said Marci Hamilton, author of the book "Religion and the Rule of Law." A Newsweek poll in December 2004 found that 79 percent of Americans believed the Virgin birth was literal truth. A national exit poll after the election found that 59 percent of Protestants and 52 percent of Roman Catholics voted for Bush, along with 78 percent of evangelicals and 61 percent of people who go to church weekly. Each constituency was carefully courted by Bush in his first term, and Republicans have been far more proficient than Democrats at God talk. But activists like Wallis, who heads the Sojourners national faith-based group, see a huge silent majority that could benefit Democrats in future elections. "If Democrats just talk policy and don't talk about moral issues, they are going to keep on losing," warned Wallis, whose book "God's Politics" camped out in The New York Times bestseller list for 16 weeks. But can a fledgling "religious left" movement take on the conservative Christian establishment, which boasts television stations, newswires and a direct line to the White House? The religious right's allies in the powerful conservative talk radio sector are ready to smother any progressive Christian movement at birth. "The religious left in this country hates and despises the God of Christianity and Catholicism and whatever else," the high priest of conservative talk radio, Rush Limbaugh, said on his show April 27. "They despise it because they fear it and it's a threat, because that God has moral absolutes, that God has right and wrong, that God doesn't deal in nuance." ================================ Thank you, Rush Limbaugh. Being the bastion of moral fortitude and righteous conviction, your opinion holds SOOOO much weight... | | Saturday, July 2nd, 2005 | | 6:24 pm |
Damaged vs. Destroyed
I wish I could understand why I can look in the mirror and see a decent (almost cute even) man who's at least starting to see glimpses of that strong-willed, strong-hearted, passionate, confidant, proactive, life-challenger he once used to be; and in the next glance see a disgustingly obese, pathetic, needy, unloved, useless, less than human waste that deserves every ounce of enmity he's ever or will ever receive for being such a disappointment to God and every other living being that ever was fooled into believing he was something worth more. And even though I know the answer is that the man in that mirror is most likely somewhere in between the two extremes, I can't shake the fear that no matter how hard I try and fight with every ounce of energy I can muster, in the long run, it's a lost battle already. I'm too damaged to ever deserve happiness, much less attain it. I refuse to stop trying though. Whether it's pessimistic optimism, pompous arrogance, or just stupidity, giving up will never be an option. I used to be someone of worth, maybe even someone loved. That's a goal worth dying for; worth even more LIVING for. |
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