This is excellent.

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Possible Follow-up Songs for One-Hit Wonders

Similar to the Movie Theater Fool...the Concert Fool.

Just One Request (washingtonpost.com)

This article explains all.

This post is so true!

Below The Eight: You Stupid, Stupid Homo Sapiens

What NOT to do at the movies...

He beats our current presidential candidates, that's for sure.

AP Wire | 07/26/2004 | Donkey Wins Colorado Mayoral Election

One of Dave Barry's better columns...

Herald.com | 07/26/2004 | Check your stupid hats and tapeworms at door

Funny actual newspaper headlines, collected by journalists

June 30 - Daily Jokes and Trivia at Pop Culture Madness

Dave Barry on 'The Da Vinci Code'

Herald.com | 06/27/2004 | `The DaVinci Code,' cracked

This parody, besides being wickedly funny, is spot-on. If you want to see what the pacing and plot of that awful book are like, look no further. Only read it if, like me, you feel compelled to keep up with the zeitgeist whether you like it or not. BLEACH!

The Da Vinci Code = lamentable tripe

...It's so bad, I'm running out of adjectives to describe how bad it is. It's a lamentable, excrable piece of tripe. Why are people reading this awful excuse for a book? It's choppy, wooden, poorly paced, and the characters are cardboard cutouts. The "romance" at the end of it is a joke. There's no leadup. All of a sudden the chick comes on to the guy. There's your romance. Maybe it's romance for dummies.

That's not even getting into the ridiculous theological part of it and how wrong the man is about church history (and I know that subject, trust me on this one). Because, fact is, I may not believe in whatever theology you are constructing your universe around, but if you can tell me a good story, I can suspend my disbelief for the duration of your book/series. But you have to sell it to me. Because it is bad fiction! Bad! Bad! Bad!

The only reason I didn't quit reading in the first chapter, where I realized How Very Bad it was, was that this was the book everybody has read and I wanted to be able to comment coherently on it. So there ya go. My coherent comment.

Sorry for the lack of posts lately!

I've been on vacation. Need I say more?

:)

Once again, a link to Gene Weingarten's chat...

Chatological Humor* (washingtonpost.com)

Read it. It's funny.

Gene Weingarten is usually funny.

The mind boggles at this.

Firehouse.com: : Car vs. Telephone Wires in Texas

Especially the fact that the driver LEFT THE CAR RUNNING!

RIP Marlon Brando

The Spoof - McDonald's Stock Collapses on News of Brando Death

Somehow life must go on...

FOXNews.com - Views - Tongue Tied column

FOXNews.com - Views - Tongue Tied - Evil Eye Contact, Angry Hermaphrodites

This column is quite interesting...

Happy Fourth of July!

...Since I sincerely doubt I'll be posting tomorrow...

Don't get burnt by any bottle rockets, ya'll.

OK, I tried changing the template colors...

...and I wound up making the background for the top title section white and the words black.

I don't want the title section white and the words black. I want the title section BLUE and the words WHITE.

WHY IS THIS SO HARD TO FIGURE OUT?!?!?

GRR.

I'd go back to my original blog colors, but that template had absolutely no links, and this one at least has links. But be forewarned: the colors and template here are subject to change! (Once I figure out how the HECK to do it.)

That is all...

Another article about icons- this one, a much easier read.

The Icon FAQ

This is pretty much a point-by-point Q and A in reference to common Protestant objections to icons. Very helpful. Read this one first!

An excellent article on the theology of Orthodox iconography...

The Iconic and Symbolic in Orthodox Iconography

It's a bit dense, but it's excellent, and well written.

A great site with links to all things Orthodox Christian...check it out!

TheoLogic Systems Orthodox WorldLinks

Gene Weingarten's weekly chat on Washingtonpost.com

Chatological Humor* (washingtonpost.com)

Funny, as usual...

I'm not against this idea.

William Safire: Time to abolish penny | The Arizona Daily Star

I dig this.

MAXIM ONLINE: What kind of people cover their bar in pennies? The lucky kind!

It's not like they're actually WORTH anything anyway...

Tea, fluoride, and your thyroid...sobering reading...

Green Tea...

...The worst thing about it is, I really like tea!

A short summary of the article: Tea is high in fluoride.
Fluoride is really, really, really bad for your thyroid gland.