1) Katrina. I'm broke. Despite the crazy blog money rumors, I don't have any. So, I'm putting my time where my wallet can't help.
2) Church. I got winged by a Bible so the whole Christian thing didn't take all the way, so I recently became a Universalist-Unitarian instead. That's where you get mass-married and a free subscription to The Washington Times, right?
3) Work. Tomorrow is Constitution Day (celebrated at least, it was actually on the 17th), and I'm some sort of key-note speaker or something. The Constitution is that thing with that treasure map on the back of it, right? Wait, or was that the Magna Carta?
Anyway, after that I have some 'research' or some such nonsense that my editor keeps demanding. He and I keep clashing over creative differences. He insists that photoshops of Princess Leia making out with Padme have nothing to do with an analysis of the discurssives of terrorism. That and some such nonsense about it being beneath a University press to have a full pull-out centerfold of Angelina Jolie. We'll just have to agree to disagree on that one.
I'll be around, but just not around for the next few weeks. E-mail me if it's something personal.
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Take care of yourself. Bringing a Washington Times into A Unitarian Church is much more dangerous in my eyes than having a Fatwa issued against you.
Can not wait till your triumphal return.
Tom
Posted by: Tom at September 19, 2005 08:10 PM (yM9MF)
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Are you not allowed to blog within the Unitard community? I fail to see how this affects your output.
Dude, if you would like a pleasantly meaningless denomination with minimal biblical requirements, join the Episcopalians. You get wine at communion and it smells like incense and alcoholism, instead of Unitarians (which smell like hemp and cabbage).
Posted by: See-dubya at September 19, 2005 08:16 PM (EufM0)
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So, dude, where's the link to the padme/leia photoshop?
Posted by: Partisan Pundit at September 19, 2005 09:37 PM (ukBP3)
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Wait, you mean the Universalist-Unitarians aren't the ones that mass marry? You know, the Moonies, right? Dayamn, and here I have been waiting all this time for my arranged marriage with a Korean chick! This goes a long way in explaining why we had Communion 'brownies' last week........
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at September 19, 2005 09:48 PM (JQjhA)
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Unitarians see through Bush, Unification followers run Washington Times, get it?
Posted by: Downing Street Memo at September 20, 2005 06:27 AM (VhNDM)
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Really screw with the left and join a Four Square Church. They (I guess I should say we) are a small denomimation that grew in the 60s and 70s by drafting
hippie evangelicals. That seeming contradiction should throw Kos & Company for a loop.
The first 30 minutes of our service is a Christian rock concert (our church has 3 bands that rotate Sundays). We don't have hymnals; instead lyrics are projected up a concert-sized big screen behind the band. Our lead pastor is an aging California surfer who rarely wears anything other than shorts and flip flops while delivering his sermon, and we have coffee and donuts available at the back the entire time (and it is perfectly acceptable to get either at any time). After services, we have snowcones.
Of course, part of the fun is telling all this to my uber-religiously conservative deacon father-in-law, who is convinced we've joined a cult. :-)
Nothing gives him the willies more than telling him I'm taking his wife and granddaughter to have "baptisms and snowcones at the Karaoke church."
The fact that they are really good church is just an added bonus.
Posted by: Confederate Yankee at September 20, 2005 09:06 AM (2cgwG)
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Nothing wrong with hippie church, especially considering Jesus was a big hippie. Think about it; he didn't work, had long hair, freeloaded off everyone, and talked about peace and love and the virtues of being broke. Come to think of it, he was a follower of Buddha, who was perhaps the first hippie, as he was born to wealth, but instead of being productive, encouraged generations of young men and women to rebel against prosperity.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 20, 2005 10:31 AM (0yYS2)
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Jesus worked. First he was a carpenter then he was a preacher. I agree that there is nothing wrong with a celebration of G-d as opposed to a mourning. And snow cones are really just cool.
Posted by: Defense Guy at September 20, 2005 11:01 AM (jPCiN)
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Rusty:
I'm involved in a project with the Red Cross that takes 10 to 11 hours a day. I've pretty much suspended blogging.
Posted by: Demosophist at September 20, 2005 11:05 AM (00zgk)
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