Charities often come up with unusual ways to raise awareness and raise money. But this takes the cake. It’s, um — how to explain — it’s, er, a "dance-with-yourself-a-thon". If you know what I mean. UPDATE: Damn! I missed it! (It happened last Saturday!)
Old Testament Parenting
I suppose people with kids will find this funnier than I did, and I thought it was pretty funny: ‘Lamentations of the Father’ [An excerpt]by Ian Frazier Laws Pertaining to Dessert For we judge between the plate that is unclean and the plate that is clean, saying first, if the plate is clean, then you shall have dessert. But of … Read More
New Reality Show Will Lead To Broadway Role
Yup, Broadway is reviving Grease again, but the casting will have a bit of a twist: The T-Birds and the Pink Ladies of "Grease" are coming back to Broadway, where producers are turning to a reality television show to cast the lead roles. NBC said on Tuesday it will broadcast a talent show titled "You’re the One That We Want" … Read More
Liveblogging The WFDD “Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical” Interview
Background here. 9:50 am: Jamie (Director) talks about the "curiousity factor" of the show. Compares DDD with "American Pie" and "Something About Mary". Avoids the word "particularly", which he has a hard time saying. Um, Arthur Miller? 9:52 am: Heather ("Debbie") mentions her dry, deadpan sense of humor. Yup. 9:53 am: Yeah, Jamie. Of course you didn’t have reservations about … Read More
The Science Behind Mel Gibson’s Malibu Meltdown
Last Mel Gibson post, I swear. This isn’t exactly news to any who has been drunk before, but it’s nice to see it confirmed: Was this alcohol-fueled soliloquy an ugly insight into Mr. Gibson’s character — in other words, in vino veritas? Or was it just the tequila talking? *** “We all have things that we might think or feel … Read More
Massage Therapist Banned From Having Sex With Her Husband
Minnesota has a law which forbids massage therapists from having sex with their clients for two years. A therapist who violates the law can have his/her license revoked, and be fined. The problem with the law (aside from the fact that it is a victimless crime) is that it makes no exception for marriage. That can cause a problem. Just … Read More
Reconciling Evangelicalism And Science
You have to click through Salon’s annoying "ad", but this article is very worthwhile. It’s an interview with Francis Collins, the former head of the Human Genome Project (which attempts to map the DNA of humans). A man of science and a former atheist, Collins discusses his religious views. He seems to sit comfortably within both realms, although to do … Read More
Video Proof That Britney Spears Is As Thick As A Door
This private moment of Britney (filmed by hubby Kevin Federline) shows what a class act she is. She whines about how ugly she is, then she burps, all the while acting — I don’t know — stoned, I guess. She’s swatting at imaginary fairies or something. But the best part comes at the end: Britney: Have you ever seen "Back … Read More
Shorter Pat Boone
"Mel Gibson is not an anti-Semite, because he loves Christ and Christ was a Jew." Pat goes on to explain that it really was the alcohol talking, likening Mel’s outburst to someone with Tourette’s syndrome. Yeah, right.
The Wilhelm Scream
In 1951, a Gary Cooper film called "Distant Drums" was being filmed. The scene called for a man to get eaten by an alligator. As is usual in filmmaking, the actual scream was dubbed in later and edited into the film. That recorded scream later went into the sound recording vaults of Warner Brothers studios. It became known as the … Read More
Web’s 15th Birthday Approaching
On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee, a consultant at a physics lab in CERN in Switzerland, made — for the first time — computer files available to the public which allowed people to build their first web pages. The first web page appeared at http://info.cern.ch/. It provided an explanation about what the World Wide Web was, how one could own … Read More
Pat Robertson Believes In Global Warming
Pat Robertson has always been a little half-baked — like the time he and Jerry Falwell sat around and blamed 9/11 on lesbian sex, or the time he said that Katrina was the sign of the biblical apocalypse. Maybe this heat has converted the doughy mess that was Pat Robertson’s brain into something solid and reasonable. Anyway, it’s a good … Read More
What Happened To The Original “Debbie”?
It’s a mystery. In fact, nobody is even sure of her real name.
Atheist Quotes
A whole list of them. While some of the quotes are (in my view) a little hostile toward religion, there are some that particularly resonate with me (especially the first one): "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you … Read More
The 9/11 NORAD Tapes
Everybody’s talking about this Vanity Fair piece, citing it as one of the "best examples of online journalism" to date. It’s a compelling story of how the U.S. Air Force responded to the events of 9/11, including excerpts from never-heard-before tapes acquired from NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command). These were the first guys who knew that something was … Read More