Swedish Toast

Ingmar Bergman died Sunday night.
Michaelangelo Antonioni died yesterday.

COINCIDENCE???

Yes, it's Boneless Girl! Watch her fall bonelessly past rubber bubbles. You can fling her, or just watch her get stuck and catch her breath. A really good use of all the culture we've accumulated thus far.

There's a Bollywood movie called Heyy Babyy, here's the synopsis:

The blissful and merriful life of three casanovas comes to a standstill when a baby arrives at their doorstep and one of them is its father. The three guys have to now search from among the various girls with whom they have slept to discover who its mother would be.

That is so Steve Guttenberg.

Hey, people are catching on to the lies!

"arrogant, clueless, inept but resolute!" says Gene Gregory.

take care of your ears
"None of us protected our ears at all," said Pat Benatar.

I just wanted to give a shout out to Karl Stunt, who is no longer with us, for burning me this CD of Ozomatli. I hadn't listened to it much before now, and it's great! Thanks Karl! I figure you're probably still dropping in on cyberspace every now and them, so cheers man. (the album is self-titled Ozomatli, with performances by Cut Chemist and Chali 2na, among others)

Apparently our own snowbird, Anne Murray, is also against windmills... because she can see them. As Shakespeare wrote, "tis better to hurt the earth than to obstruct peripheral vision."

Cape Cod resident Michael Mercurio got permission from his township to erect a windmill in his backyard. But his neighbours don't like it. They are fighting him to have it taken down because of its appearance, moderate noise, etc. But Mercurio's got a lot of interesting points to make. Here's one:
“People always say, ‘Not in my backyard, not in my backyard,’ ” he said. “I want to flip it around. It should start in my backyard.”

This is ridiculous madness stupid unbelievable.
The Pope has declared (or reiterated) that christians who do not accept him as the supreme leader "are not true churches". As the NYT puts it, the pope has "reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church". Not true churches? Universal primacy? How arrogant.

Here's some highlights from his fascist doc:

"Protestant and other Christian denominations are not true churches but merely ecclesial communities and therefore did not have the 'means of salvation.'"

"Christ 'established here on earth' only one church, and the other communities cannot be called 'churches' in the proper sense because they do not have apostolic succession -- the ability to trace their bishops back to Christ's original apostles."

"Orthodox churches lack something because they do not recognize the primacy of the pope -- a defect, or a 'wound' that harms them."

I think this is all a bunch of hootenany. It is so pompous to think that you control something that has to be bigger than you, bigger than your ability to comprehend it. This sounds like the papal bulls in the middle ages when you were expected to pay the church for your "means of salvation". Unless you acknowledged the authority of the pope you would be damned. Doesn't this smack of totalitarianism??? Even just a touch?

I couldn't care less how someone acts spiritually, that's just me, but the church's crazy authoritative attitude seems unnecessarily out of place. I can't believe this shit still goes on - exclusion for the sake of exclusion. Were a long way from the StarTrekification of our society.

Apparently the bush president is also above subpoenas:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/washington/09cnd-prexy.html?hp

Here's another example of my previous post. Bush said this today: "If we were to quit Iraq before the job is done, the terrorists we are fighting would not declare victory and lay down their arms." Doesn't it sound dreamy when he says it? Message to Americans, if we stop, we lose, we are quitters. If we keep going, there will come a point where they will surrender TOTALLY, to the point of physically putting their guns on the ground (followed by a swell of strings, and an airdrop of red, white and blue things). Obviously the bush is delusional.
He goes on to say: "It's a tough fight, but I wouldn't have asked those troops to go into harm's way if the fight was not essential to the security of the United States of America." What a courageous statement, this guy must be so smart!! Wait, this jerk has said this stuff before and it has been COMPLETELY DISPROVEN. There was no threat from Iraq, they fabricated it in order to convince everyone to support the invasion, and the knobs continue to announce it as if people are stupid (which, it hurts to say, has varying levels of truth).
Whenever Bush speaks, there needs to be some guy in the corner, like one of those sign language bubbles in the corner of the screen, providing commentary on what the jerk is saying. The commentator should be slightly louder than the jerk, and should interject when certain facts are false or misleading. It would also be ideal if the jerk could hear and be interrupted by the commentator. Of course, this might allow the jerk to learn something, and it might make things more transparent, which can't possibly be the mission of democracy.

problem with Bush is he says stuff but never has to back it up (as G Love sang: "Don't you talk too much, You got to back it up").
Bush can say whatever nonsense he wants, whether he looks like an idiot or not. The system is a mockery. Instead of waiting for him to say something stupid and having smart people and critics interpret it, why not ask the smart people first for some guidance? The whole Libby thing is a perfect example of a guy who thinks he is right, while having no clue that there is an entire system that exists separately from him. It's not leadership; it's arrogance.