New Thing! Geeks Without God
I’m pretty excited to share some information about a new podcast I’ll be hosting with Molly and Nick Glover called “Geeks Without God.” We’ll be recording our first episode LIVE at CONvergence on Saturday at 9:30 AM.
Yes. 9:30 AM on Saturday. I know. I’m not looking forward to it either.
Walt Disney World on a Dollar
My family and I are currently on vacation at Walt Disney World. We are Disney Vacation Club members and that means we come here with some frequency. I’m not going to pretend I don’t love Walt Disney World. I adore the place.
This year, we are trying to be pretty frugal. My wife had a bad fall during the one ice storm we had this winter (if I believed in bad luck – I would believe she had the worst ever) and is not working so we need to conserve funds. We brought our own food for breakfasts, we are on a strict “no souvenir” diet, etc.
Shit that Pissed me off this Week – 5/4
Football Coach would be “Honored” if he was Fired for Anti-Gay Rhetoric
Never fails. I post “Shit that Pissed me Off” and I immediately see something else. This story is a week old but it still pisses me off.
He says that if he is fired for anti gay language, he’d be honored to be “fired for his faith.” This in spite of the fact that there is very dubious evidence for using the bible as an excuse to hate on gay people.
He’s not going to be fired because of his faith. He’s going to be fired because he has chosen very specific passages from a badly translated book to support a prejudice he already had. Then he communicates it to a bunch of kids who look at him as an authority figure.
Go Check out this Other Stuff I Write!
I’m a regular contributor to the Vilification Tennis web site as The Movie Dick.
This week, I explored why Cabin in the Woods has done relatively poorly at the box office. I think the argument is compelling. Check it out and see what you think!
Shit that Pissed me off This Week – 4/27
This isn’t the first time WI State Senator has put his foot in it. Now has claimed women actually want to be single mothers and that women are “trained” to tell doctors their pregnancies are unplanned so they can get an abortion.
Where did this come from? There must be a woman in his past who really shafted him and now he is taking it out on her entire sex.
I might be reading too much into the situation. It’s possible he’s just an asshole.
Vilification Tennis Amateur Week
I don’t have a high-res version of the poster for this month’s show but I do have this version of the image which captures a little bit of the awesome job Manna Simula did:
I really like what she did to incorporate Project Runway with Vilification Tennis.
For those who might be interested in more in depth information about our weekend shows than I can share in a brief FaceBook blurb, here you go:
Vilification Tennis Podcast #2 is LIVE
Our first podcast went so well, we decided that we wanted to go bi-weekly rather than monthly. This time, Matt Allex, Chrys Vanderkamp and Amanda Hofman-Frethem join me to make jokes about Hitler’s birthday, consuming enough Coke to cause death, penguins and our favorite show themes.
Click here to enjoy Episode 2: Noose Gengrich and the Fuckin’ Puppets or subscribe to us on iTunes!
Shit that Pissed me off this Week – 4/20
Catholic Bishops get together to whine about how misunderstood they all are
In the wake of all the work the Catholic church has been doing against women and homosexuals lately, they decided they needed to complain about the lack of religious freedom in the United States.
As always, the Church only gets pissed off when the government tells them to do something (like provide health plans that actually benefit women). As soon as they want to tell the government what to do (like pass anti-gay marriage ammendments), the story is a little different.
Shit that Pissed me off This Week – 4/13
The Leader of the Russian Orthodox Church Lies to the Press about a Watch
Patriarch Krill I, the religious leader of millions of people, was photographed wearing a watch reputed to be worth over $30,000. In a country where that exceeds the annual income of most households, that’s a pretty big deal.
So then, the picture is photoshopped to make the watch go away. That doesn’t work because they forget to get rid of the watch’s reflection. How do you say “d’oh” in Russian?
D'ohsvidonia!
The church apologizes for the incident and calls it a “technical mistake.” With me so far?
So the Patriarch decides to take his asshattery just one step too far and he denies that he’s ever worn the watch, going so far as to claim that any picture showing him wearing the watch has been photoshopped.
He doesn’t say something like “yes, the watch was a gift and I liked it so much, I kept it rather than selling it” or “holy shit! It’s worth how much?? I had not idea!”
No, he says he’s never worn the damn thing and that there are a bunch of conspiracy theorists running around the internet gleefully cackling as they maliciously put watches on every picture they find. “That’ll show ‘im,” they laugh, “now the world will think he’s a materialistic scuzzbag when he’s actually not!”
The reality is the dude has been wearing the watch and rather than fess up, he lied about it. The leader of one of the most powerful churches in Russia lied.
About a fucking watch.
Side note: The dudes name is really “Krill?” I’ll bet whales scare the shit out of him.
Neil deGrasse Tyson just blew my mind. Twice.
If you aren’t following Neil deGrasse Tyson on Twitter, you should.
I’ll warn you, though, he inspires some big thoughts. On saturday, for instance, he tweeted the following:
Fond of bow ties & hats. Handbag is bigger on the inside. Talks to variety of creatures. Evidence Mary Poppins is a Time Lord
Ohmygoddoyouknowwhatthismeans??????
It means Dick Van Dyke is her companion, that’s what it means.
Today, he tweeted this:
Just an FYI: Stars in the Universe far outnumber all sounds & words ever uttered by all humans who ever lived.
In fewer than 140 characters, he conveys just how fucking HUGE the universe is.
He didn’t even need to qualify his statement by including only important stuff. If he did that, he would have only needed to include the Milky Way.
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