Issue 125
News: From Judy to J.D.
My Name is Derekaxe and I am a Wikiholic. I have been using wikipedia for roughly four or five years, and currently spend a few hours every day surfing it from page to page. It is probably the only place where a person can go from reading about Martin Bohrmann to Winnie-the-Pooh in three easy steps, the only intervening pages being Argentina and Latin. Here is an example of this, as I logged a few days ago: Judy Garland is a widely-recognized gay idol, as was Julie Andrews. One of Julie's more obscure early roles (certainly in comparison to her roles as Maria Von Trapp, Mary Poppins, and Victor/Victoria) was as Gertrude Lawrence. One of Lawrence's most famous roles was in a musical by Kurt Weill, who wrote many musicals including the Threepenny Opera, and Johnny Johnson, based on The Good Soldier Svejk. Svejk happened to be one of the earliest anti-war works of literature, preceded only by parts of The Red Badge of Courage. The Red Badge of Courage was later made into a film starring Audie Murphy, a famous soldier/actor who developed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The change in names from "Shell Shock" to "PTSD" was chronicled in a comedy routine by George Carlin, whose comedy was often Misanthropic, a side effect of which is often reclusiveness, a quality which J.D. Salinger was infamous for.
Band Name of the Day: From Judy to J.D. sounds good again.
Film Idea of the Day: The Princess and the Powder. A princess from a small European monarchy visiting Chicago runs off with a journalist, and they tour the city, fall in love, and do every drug known to man and some of the larger primates.
Film Review of the Day: Blackboard Jungle. This film is about the trials and tribulations of a teacher trying to teach a bunch of unruly inner-city teacher, starting up an entire subgenre of films with varying degrees of schmaltziness and much of the same plot. Of course, despite this, this film is very gritty even today, and one can only imagine what it must have been like for audiences in 1955.
Quote of the Day: "He was a revolutionary, and a black man!" (unnecessary comma, apparently spoken by Ray Charles)
"I believe he was Buddha's Cousin"
"Jesus, the guy who was in a lot of movies"
"Didn't they cut off His head at a party? No Stupid! that was Jonah. Jesus wrote Bibles" (necessary comma omitted, and sentence starts with a lowercase letter.)
________Some answers to "Who is Jesus?" according to Jack Chick in his latest tract, although I'm sure that only the first one is held by actual people.
Link of the Day: Six Degrees of Wikipedia (If only I could have known that the only link I needed between Judy to J.D. was the article on Pleurisy).
Tract review: Who is He? This is simply another of Jack's "Christianity in a Nutshell" tracts which happen to not be too controversial or even have a story, although some peoples' answers to the question "Who is Jesus" in the tract are particularly bizarre.
My Name is Derekaxe and I am a Wikiholic. I have been using wikipedia for roughly four or five years, and currently spend a few hours every day surfing it from page to page. It is probably the only place where a person can go from reading about Martin Bohrmann to Winnie-the-Pooh in three easy steps, the only intervening pages being Argentina and Latin. Here is an example of this, as I logged a few days ago: Judy Garland is a widely-recognized gay idol, as was Julie Andrews. One of Julie's more obscure early roles (certainly in comparison to her roles as Maria Von Trapp, Mary Poppins, and Victor/Victoria) was as Gertrude Lawrence. One of Lawrence's most famous roles was in a musical by Kurt Weill, who wrote many musicals including the Threepenny Opera, and Johnny Johnson, based on The Good Soldier Svejk. Svejk happened to be one of the earliest anti-war works of literature, preceded only by parts of The Red Badge of Courage. The Red Badge of Courage was later made into a film starring Audie Murphy, a famous soldier/actor who developed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The change in names from "Shell Shock" to "PTSD" was chronicled in a comedy routine by George Carlin, whose comedy was often Misanthropic, a side effect of which is often reclusiveness, a quality which J.D. Salinger was infamous for.
Band Name of the Day: From Judy to J.D. sounds good again.
Film Idea of the Day: The Princess and the Powder. A princess from a small European monarchy visiting Chicago runs off with a journalist, and they tour the city, fall in love, and do every drug known to man and some of the larger primates.
Film Review of the Day: Blackboard Jungle. This film is about the trials and tribulations of a teacher trying to teach a bunch of unruly inner-city teacher, starting up an entire subgenre of films with varying degrees of schmaltziness and much of the same plot. Of course, despite this, this film is very gritty even today, and one can only imagine what it must have been like for audiences in 1955.
Quote of the Day: "He was a revolutionary, and a black man!" (unnecessary comma, apparently spoken by Ray Charles)
"I believe he was Buddha's Cousin"
"Jesus, the guy who was in a lot of movies"
"Didn't they cut off His head at a party? No Stupid! that was Jonah. Jesus wrote Bibles" (necessary comma omitted, and sentence starts with a lowercase letter.)
________Some answers to "Who is Jesus?" according to Jack Chick in his latest tract, although I'm sure that only the first one is held by actual people.
Link of the Day: Six Degrees of Wikipedia (If only I could have known that the only link I needed between Judy to J.D. was the article on Pleurisy).
Tract review: Who is He? This is simply another of Jack's "Christianity in a Nutshell" tracts which happen to not be too controversial or even have a story, although some peoples' answers to the question "Who is Jesus" in the tract are particularly bizarre.
Labels: Books, Figures, Jack is Whack, Miscellaneous, Tract Reviews
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