Sunday, March 25, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
a finished play?
Light at the end of the tunnel, motherfuckers. I'm hoping my goal of having a completed draft before starting rehearsals for my next show comes to pass. SO FUCKING CLOSE!!!
It's at this weird point where I can't stop writing, can't step away from it, yet somehow am also repelled by it, like I can see the potential for how it could be, but fear that I'm fucking it up at the same time.
Oh well. At least it'll be my fucked-up baby if nothing else.
Even if you have a cleft-palate, mentally deranged, psycho-retard baby, you still love your baby, right?
Even as it disgusts and appalls people and drives them to madness and suicide... :-)
That's the plan, anyway.
It's at this weird point where I can't stop writing, can't step away from it, yet somehow am also repelled by it, like I can see the potential for how it could be, but fear that I'm fucking it up at the same time.
Oh well. At least it'll be my fucked-up baby if nothing else.
Even if you have a cleft-palate, mentally deranged, psycho-retard baby, you still love your baby, right?
Even as it disgusts and appalls people and drives them to madness and suicide... :-)
That's the plan, anyway.
catholic castrations
So at what point do we admit that the Catholic Church, were it organized around anything other than religion, would be considered a thuggish gang of perverts and psychopaths, bent on world domination and assimilation?
A recent NY Times story tells of at least 10 young men and boys who were castrated after they made allegations of sexual abuse against members of the clergy.
So, yeah, that was as recently as the 1950s. The article goes on to state that it is unclear whether the castrations were performed as punishment for going to the authorities over the sexual abuse, or if they were meant as treatment '...for homosexuality...,' presumably the self-same homosexuality in the form of rape that was forced on them by priests.
And of course the man who was accused of abusing this poor fuck who had his nuts sliced off as a result--without anesthesia, apparently--was not prosecuted, but rather was transferred to Nova Scotia, where he started a school for boys.
Perfect.
Okay, so beyond the usual horror of what these people do, and the way they systematically cover their crimes over and over again, aiding and abetting the criminals in not only their escape, but to perpetrate more crimes in the future, I ask a serious question: if it weren't for religion, would anyone tolerate these crimes against humanity? Against children?
Which leads to my next question: why do we tolerate these crimes when they are perpetrated by people who claim to be the sole arbiters of the will of an invisible man in the sky? Shouldn't the fact of their religion be an argument AGAINST tolerating this shit?
It seems to me that people who believe in an invisible man in the sky are ipso facto the worst people to trust with the lives and well-being of anyone else.
This is a cult. These people are dangerous sociopaths with nearly unlimited money and a conspiracy of silence and corroboration supporting their criminal deviance. The fact that they believe in an imaginary deity based on nothing but faith and fealty should not absolve them of their crimes, it should be the final straw needed to convict them once and for all, and evict them from the rolls of The Good Ones of humanity.
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A recent NY Times story tells of at least 10 young men and boys who were castrated after they made allegations of sexual abuse against members of the clergy.
A young man in the care of the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands was surgically castrated decades ago after complaining about sexual abuse, according to new evidence that only adds to the scandal engulfing the church there.
The case, which dates from the 1950s, has increased pressure for a government-led inquiry into sexual abuse in the Dutch church, amid suspicions that as many as 10 young men may have suffered the same fate.
So, yeah, that was as recently as the 1950s. The article goes on to state that it is unclear whether the castrations were performed as punishment for going to the authorities over the sexual abuse, or if they were meant as treatment '...for homosexuality...,' presumably the self-same homosexuality in the form of rape that was forced on them by priests.
And of course the man who was accused of abusing this poor fuck who had his nuts sliced off as a result--without anesthesia, apparently--was not prosecuted, but rather was transferred to Nova Scotia, where he started a school for boys.
Perfect.
Okay, so beyond the usual horror of what these people do, and the way they systematically cover their crimes over and over again, aiding and abetting the criminals in not only their escape, but to perpetrate more crimes in the future, I ask a serious question: if it weren't for religion, would anyone tolerate these crimes against humanity? Against children?
Which leads to my next question: why do we tolerate these crimes when they are perpetrated by people who claim to be the sole arbiters of the will of an invisible man in the sky? Shouldn't the fact of their religion be an argument AGAINST tolerating this shit?
It seems to me that people who believe in an invisible man in the sky are ipso facto the worst people to trust with the lives and well-being of anyone else.
This is a cult. These people are dangerous sociopaths with nearly unlimited money and a conspiracy of silence and corroboration supporting their criminal deviance. The fact that they believe in an imaginary deity based on nothing but faith and fealty should not absolve them of their crimes, it should be the final straw needed to convict them once and for all, and evict them from the rolls of The Good Ones of humanity.
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
do you like genesis?
I've been a real big fan ever since their 1980 album 'Duke.'
Oh, and my parents were killed in front of me when I was a child.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
israeli/iranian love
This pretty well sums up the logic of the right-wing drumbeat to wage war on Iran, which sounds awfully familiar to anyone who hasn't swallowed the Kool-Aid since the last time these same people cried out to loose the dogs of war from the safety of their wingnut welfare offices.
But an interesting development on Facebook, ordinary citizens from both Israel and Iran have started a campaign of peace:
The love fest started after an Israeli couple made a Facebook page and blog Saturday, issuing an online call for peace. “Iranians, we will never bomb you country. We heart you,” posters uploaded to the sites read.
Hours later, the responses from Iranians started pouring in. In one, a woman from Iran uploaded a poster with the caption: “My Israeli friends, I don’t hate you, I don’t want war.”
Here's a link to the original FB page. Pretty amazing stuff, when ordinary citizens can tell each other directly that their leaders are warmongers and idiots who do not represent the majority.
Score one for the interwebz.
Friday, March 16, 2012
shakespeare as it sounded
This is cool--we saw a few weeks back a video of some scholars and actors discussing how the English language would have sounded in Shakespeare's day. They deduced this from some jokes that have gotten lost, plays on words, and etc. due to our modern improper pronunciation. And though they gave a few short examples of what it might have sounded like then, here's a link to a story on a guide published by the British Library that includes audio recordings of a few pieces.
Here is a bit from the Scottish Play, Act 2:
[EDIT: oops, I guess blogger won't let me embed clips from soundcloud. click the link above for clips from the scottish play, romeo and juliet, and one of the sonnets.]
I love how it sounds almost Northern or Yorkshire, and almost Irish, yet none of these. More clips at the site linked above.
Here is a bit from the Scottish Play, Act 2:
[EDIT: oops, I guess blogger won't let me embed clips from soundcloud. click the link above for clips from the scottish play, romeo and juliet, and one of the sonnets.]
I love how it sounds almost Northern or Yorkshire, and almost Irish, yet none of these. More clips at the site linked above.
wasted youth
Yep, that's about right. Only me and my friends would've been huffing the fumes as well as lighting them on fire.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
game change
Holy crap, Julianne Moore is a goddess. This is amazing. Side by side clips from the new HBO movie 'Game Change' documenting the spectacular idiocy of Sarah Palin and the Republican Party for bringing her into McCain's campaign, showing Moore and the real Palin.
I don't know if I'll be able to actually watch the film though; it's just so painful to see even of a portrayal of that grifter and her stunning, smug stupidity and disingenuousness.
Monday, March 12, 2012
tantrum proven
Well, who ever would have seen this coming?
A couple was thrown off a JetBlue flight when their two-year-old daughter threw a tantrum and they couldn't get her to sit still for take off. Then they went on the Today show to bitch about how 'there's no humanity,' or some such self-absorbed, self-pitying delusional bullshit. Within minutes, they immediately demonstrated that they indeed are the distracted, hands-off type of parents that make the world a shittier place for the rest of us by raising the next generation of shitty, spoiled humans.
Well, that went worse than expected.
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A couple was thrown off a JetBlue flight when their two-year-old daughter threw a tantrum and they couldn't get her to sit still for take off. Then they went on the Today show to bitch about how 'there's no humanity,' or some such self-absorbed, self-pitying delusional bullshit. Within minutes, they immediately demonstrated that they indeed are the distracted, hands-off type of parents that make the world a shittier place for the rest of us by raising the next generation of shitty, spoiled humans.
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Well, that went worse than expected.
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