The most demonic of redundancies November 18, 2007
Posted by Wade Rockett in Church.add a comment
“After the last century, to offer more spilt blood to the earth, under any circumstances, seems the most demonic of redundancies.”
- ochlophobist, in a comment on “Orthodoxy and Torture“
Friday November 16, 2007
Posted by Wade Rockett in Work, Writing.add a comment
My first post using Windows Live Writer, which impressed the heck out of me at Blog World Expo.
I’m hiding in a disused conference room the other end of the building today. I’ve got my laptop and power cord, a bag of animal crackers, and a travel mug for cold water or hot tea. Writing essentials.
I need solitude: I have a two-page solution sheet to start and finish today, because we’re flying down to Southern California for Thanksgiving on Monday.
The room is on the corner, with two windows. Outside it’s all gray with fog and drifting sheets of rain.
When you’re tired like I am and it’s raining like this, it’s hard not to feel sad. It would be nice if I had the luxury of indulging this feeling: listen to sad music, drink something hot, look out at the rain and let the mood come and go like the weather.
But there’s science to do. We do what we must, because we can.
I told the listeners of Writing For Pay that if there isn’t a show up on Saturday, they can do physical harm to me. For all I know someone will take me up on it, so it’s quite a motivator.
Back from Vegas November 12, 2007
Posted by Wade Rockett in Miscellany.add a comment
Blog World Expo photos here.
It’s time to clear up this whole anti-gay gay Republican thing November 2, 2007
Posted by Wade Rockett in Politics.add a comment
Yet another anti-gay Republican is outed as having gay, gay sex.
This routine is getting really old. Especially the part where they deny being gay afterward. At least Ted Haggard mixed it up a bit by admitting that he was gay, but promising to stop being gay.
Here’s what we do:
Get all the anti-gay Republicans together and give them each a marble. Put out a big barrel.
Say, “Let’s all close our eyes for ten minutes. While they’re closed, anyone who’s had gay sex, drop your marble in the barrel.”
After all the marbles have been dropped, we open our eyes and count the marbles.
“Look,” we can say. “This proves that several hundred* of you are secretly having gay sex. There’s no need to pretend otherwise anymore. Now can we start to talk honestly about homosexuality?”
(Via Teresacentric)
*Or thousand
