Issue 81
News: An update, a death, and a third thing.
Two issues ago, I posted an article about how a young girl in Ireland was being barred from leaving the country lest she abort her child. It would have been a goner had it not been aborted. Fortunately, since my writing, the girl was finally allowed to travel abroad by the courts. Around this same period of time, I got news of the first notorious member of today's religious right to die: Jerry Falwell. As you may have known, I disagree intensely with his policies and those of many of his kind, but I promise to refrain from turning it into a Schadenfreudefest. I had known for some time that Falwell was in poor health, but I always thought that Billy Graham (with his Parkinson's, his 88 years of age, and prostate cancer, among many other risk factors) would be the first one to kick the bucket. In fact, on NewspeakDictionary, there was a whole discussion thread created about who would be the next televangelist over 67 to go after Falwell: Graham is currently Third out of nine evangelical leaders most likely to be next to kick the bucket (above Oral "Send me $5 million or God will 'Take me Home'" Roberts and Jack T. Chick.)
Band NAme of the Day: The Buttsacks. From the movie The LadyKillers (reviewed below), one member of the team is said to play the sackbut (Trombone). When asked to play for the old lady, he tells Tom Hanks' character "But I don't know how to play the buttsack."
Film idea of the day: Triad. It is a TV series about a man (Ben Johnson) who is having an affair with two very different women: An editor for a famous Chicago-based fashion magazine (Marian Samson) and a bisexual hippie-chick artist (Earth Berkowitz). The catalyst for the events of the show is that Ben asks Marian and Earth to live with him, both at the same time. This is not just an update/homage/rip-off to Three's Company, because it is openly acknowledged in this case that the three protagonists are in a relationship, whereas in Three's Company, it becomes clear that the three protagonists are not in an actual relationship, despite living under the same roof.
Film review of the day: The Ladykillers. I saw the 2004 Coen brothers version earlier this week. In the first part of the film, Tom Hanks' character (a charming and Erudite Southern Gentleman professor) decides to tunnel into a casino from the house of an old lady (who regularly sends money to Bob Jones University, despite her being Black and BJU's infamous racist policies on interracial dating, which had only been repealed 4 years before) and steal $1.6 million dollars while posing as a Classical Music Troupe. This is successful, but she finds out and threatens to turn them in unless they return the money. And then they decide to kill her. SPOILER ALERT (If you don't want to know the ending, go to the quotes section) They all fail killing each other. The old lady is unaware of their new plans and gives all the money to BJU.
Quote of the Day: "And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way — all of them who have tried to secularize America — I point the finger in their face and say "you helped this happen."
__________Jerry Falwell, two days after 9/11.
Link of the Day: Jerry Falwell's God, inspired by the above quote.
Two issues ago, I posted an article about how a young girl in Ireland was being barred from leaving the country lest she abort her child. It would have been a goner had it not been aborted. Fortunately, since my writing, the girl was finally allowed to travel abroad by the courts. Around this same period of time, I got news of the first notorious member of today's religious right to die: Jerry Falwell. As you may have known, I disagree intensely with his policies and those of many of his kind, but I promise to refrain from turning it into a Schadenfreudefest. I had known for some time that Falwell was in poor health, but I always thought that Billy Graham (with his Parkinson's, his 88 years of age, and prostate cancer, among many other risk factors) would be the first one to kick the bucket. In fact, on NewspeakDictionary, there was a whole discussion thread created about who would be the next televangelist over 67 to go after Falwell: Graham is currently Third out of nine evangelical leaders most likely to be next to kick the bucket (above Oral "Send me $5 million or God will 'Take me Home'" Roberts and Jack T. Chick.)
Band NAme of the Day: The Buttsacks. From the movie The LadyKillers (reviewed below), one member of the team is said to play the sackbut (Trombone). When asked to play for the old lady, he tells Tom Hanks' character "But I don't know how to play the buttsack."
Film idea of the day: Triad. It is a TV series about a man (Ben Johnson) who is having an affair with two very different women: An editor for a famous Chicago-based fashion magazine (Marian Samson) and a bisexual hippie-chick artist (Earth Berkowitz). The catalyst for the events of the show is that Ben asks Marian and Earth to live with him, both at the same time. This is not just an update/homage/rip-off to Three's Company, because it is openly acknowledged in this case that the three protagonists are in a relationship, whereas in Three's Company, it becomes clear that the three protagonists are not in an actual relationship, despite living under the same roof.
Film review of the day: The Ladykillers. I saw the 2004 Coen brothers version earlier this week. In the first part of the film, Tom Hanks' character (a charming and Erudite Southern Gentleman professor) decides to tunnel into a casino from the house of an old lady (who regularly sends money to Bob Jones University, despite her being Black and BJU's infamous racist policies on interracial dating, which had only been repealed 4 years before) and steal $1.6 million dollars while posing as a Classical Music Troupe. This is successful, but she finds out and threatens to turn them in unless they return the money. And then they decide to kill her. SPOILER ALERT (If you don't want to know the ending, go to the quotes section) They all fail killing each other. The old lady is unaware of their new plans and gives all the money to BJU.
Quote of the Day: "And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way — all of them who have tried to secularize America — I point the finger in their face and say "you helped this happen."
__________Jerry Falwell, two days after 9/11.
Link of the Day: Jerry Falwell's God, inspired by the above quote.
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