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A bit of Fine Mockery, on this lovely morning

I really try to avoid making fun of the religious beliefs of others, generally…but the works of bad art that they produce in the expression of those beliefs? Well, those are fair game. After watching with equal measures amusement, horror, and revulsion all 140 seconds of this trailer, I looked up the movie, out of curiosity as to its running time. Imagine sitting through all 101 minutes of this thing…but then, I doubt very much that the target audience for this would be sitting the entire time. At some point they have to gyrate out of their seats and writhe in the aisles.

(For the record, my first suppressed belly-laugh came at the :35 mark. You’ll see why. (The belly-laugh was suppressed because it’s early and the family is still sleeping.))

(Yes, this is snarkier content than I usually indulge on this site, but…really, what other possible response to this can there be?!)

 

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O for a can of floral-scented air spray….

Ladies and gentleman, John C. Wright:

If I may be droll, allow me to recommend to my fellow science fiction and fantasy novelists that they become Catholic merely to increase their chance of writing a novel of lasting worth, power, and beauty, on the grounds that we Catholics see the cosmos as a sacramental temple whose stained glasses are lit with supernal light streaming in from beyond, and where the many-colored light touches, enchantment, magic, wonder and all the sacred things which give life richness spring up like elfin flowers, like the moly herb that wipes the lies of the eyes away, or like trees whose leaves are for the healing of nations: and like a wind in the stars we hear, far above the mystic horns of elfland blowing, the deeper magic ring in choirs of angelic song whose breath is the breath of life.

I just…I have zero idea what to say to this. None. My gob has been given so thorough a smacking by the awfulness of this sentence as to leave me cognitively inert. Thus I shall just sit here, twitching gelatinously in a puddle of my own drool….

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A deeply serious question

OK, I’ve had this question running about my head for a while now, and the time has at last come for me to ask it. So, gentle readers, if any of you can finally clear this matter up for me, I would be eternally grateful. Here’s the question:

WHAT THE HELL IS A ‘HIPSTER’???


Thank you all in advance.

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Sigh….

New York State’s awesome legislature has today addressed a long-standing issue that needed resolution…by making corn the state vegetable.

Corn is, of course, a grain.

I am more and more reminded of George Carlin discussing news media reporting on Mickey Mouse’s birthday: “No wonder nobody takes our country seriously anymore; we spend valuable television time informing our citizens of the age of an imaginary rodent.”

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