lesbians in the attic
I'm signing off of Facebook and Twitter for a while until the iHysteria settles down. Apparently there's some new Apple product release that Mac/Apple/iTurd fans are hyperventilating about. Please STFU about such things, it bores us.
Oh, speaking of iProducts, somebody wrote another cell phone etiquette list that no one will pay attention to, and somebody came up with a new term: the iPhone effect. That's when one iPhone user pulls out his noisome device, then the rest in the group pull out theirs too effectively ending all eye contact and socialization.
Yep, that's about how it goes in any DC social situation. Manners mavens are even starting to suggest that people not look up or perform a information searches during phone conversations or social settings due to the inevitable cascade of rudeness and antisocial behavior that follows. Comments (30) on my rant about iPhones, gays and Grindr make me think that this problem is concentrated in DC due to extreme techism/wonkiness, and perhaps moreso in my personal peer group. Last week I attended a party where only 1 of 20 people were fixated on his handheld device, as opposed to 50% of my peer group at any given time.
This week Dawkins raises a good point about hypocritical Christians disapproving of Pat Robertson's comments soon after the Haiti earthquake. Scathing! It is a fine rant as rants go.
Would you rather have rats in your walls, ceiling cat staring at you through a hole in the drywall, or a lesbian judge listening to your calls from the attic?
The New Gay is hosting another Homo/Sonic party featuring regular DJs Zack and Michael, and special returning guest Natty Boom (of the Anthology of Booty) for a night of ass-shaking, booby swinging, indie, goth, electro, retro, disco, booty pop and beyond. Their parties are coed, trans-inclusive and straight friendly. It's on Friday, January 29 @ The Black Cat, 1811 14th St, NW 9:30 p.m. – 3:00 a.m. All Ages, $10.
But I'm conflicted yet again because OMG DJ TM TM will be spinning at Apex for their Winterland event at the same time as Homo/Sonic. What to do? A "Princess Appearance" will suffice.
Are you using reusable grocery bags more than you normally would due to DC's new 5-cent bag tax? Apparently it's working to reduce plastic bag consumption. Personally, I need those bags for the lunch I pack, so I've been running out a lot lately. I guess I'll have to get more from the Anacostia River.
I did hear about the prisoner in Wisconsin who was barred from playing Dungeons and Dragons out of concern that the game promotes the formations of gangs. But the judge has the entymology all wrong. D&D doesn't promote the formation of gangs, it promotes the formation of parties. Duh.
Unconscious lesbians in the attic listening to phone-calls of the ex-lovers? You know what they say: Plus ça change, plus que c'est la même chose
I almost totally sent you that article about D&D in prison. Ceiling lesbian is watching you panic. I want that story made into a Lifetime movie.
I'm tired of getting attitude from the cashiers when I had them a wad of used plastic bags. It's still their job to bag my groceries!
Your comments about the iHysteria were great! Had me rolling on the floor. Reminds me of the time at a party when I almost got into fisticuffs with a guy because I am a PC and he was a Mac.
I have a bunch of reusable grocery bags I keep in the back of the car but I rarely use them. I always seem to need more plastic bags to use for dog poop. Two per day, do the math...
My PG Co Auntie hooks me up for my supply of plastic bags. Find yourself a MD or VA person with a treasure trove of those bags.
I have four re-usable shopping bags. I am very pleased not to fill up my closet with those plastic bags.
even after all these years, i'm sure the judge's reasoning that D&D "promotes the formation of gangs" was really just his cover for the old canard that it promotes satanism. some things never change.
Regarding Dawkins's rant:
This new tactic of attacking liberal religious persons as actually worse than fundamentalists seems to be driven by the fact that liberal religious persons are the only ones reading Dawkins, and also for the counter-intuitive shock value of claiming that Gene Robinson is the evil hypocrite while at least Osama bin Laden has the courage of his convictions.
Of course, plenty of people in Haiti considered the earthquake to be punishment for their sins. But there are several passages in the New Testament where Jesus is asked directly if misfortune (natural disasters, torture by Pontius Pilate, birth defects) is caused by the sins of those involved, or of their parents, and he says no.
Christianity does fetishize suffering, but, and I think Dawkins would agree, most of our existence is filled with suffering, so it's pretty logical to organize a search for meaning around that fact. Christianity at least gives some hope in the midst of all of the horror. Dawkins thinks this is all ugliness, but the world is pretty ugly already. I don't see why the idea that God forgives us and suffers with us for our infinite failings is so despicable. The trend in the modern secular culture is no forgiveness for any mistakes ever: buh-bye! next! move aside! drop dead, loser.
You can accuse Christianity of being an incompatible mixture of contradictory concepts, but to argue that Pat Robertson is somehow truer to some real Christianity is just one of the rhetorical tricks of the New Atheists. When the only option for religious expression is fundamentalism (and that day appears to be coming soon), I think the world will be an even worse place.