Put this on my old blog back in the day, but this song pretty much rules.
I don’t have any great beef with the Mormon church. Despite some strangeness and incongruity in their beliefs (Jesus visiting America), they’re mainly relegated to Utah. Mitt Romney isn’t going anywhere. I looked up Mormon and horses and [...]
I wrote a book, North of Sunset, about a movie star who’s driven insane by celebrity – starts believing he’s above the moral code of regular people. I wrote another book, The American Book of the Dead, about a fundamentalist Christian president who starts believing he’s the Messiah. These two plots are related. It would [...]
A Youtube video by the protester against the flotilla attack who lost an eye.
Yesterday on the drive home, went past the protest at the Turkish consulate on Wilshire Blvd. Looked like this:
Felt physically revolted. I’m Jewish – by birth only. But hard not to feel some tug in support of Israel. Except they’re trying to [...]
God, this is cathartic (and catchy). Weirdly, this makes me (almost) respect the Catholic church next to fanatical Islam.
Click the “more” arrows at Youtube for the lyrics. But basically:
If you cover for another motherfucker who’s a kiddy-fucker,
Fuck you, you’re no better than the motherfucking rapist.
Powerful, effective. If the issue of 9-11 truth gives you jitters, you might be put off by part 2, but you should at least investigate it before dismissing it out of hand. But part one makes an enormously compelling case for the cross-pollination of world myths and how Jesus’s death and resurrection is nothing more [...]
Here’s Stephen Fry’s extraordinary speech about the Catholic Church. To summarize, the Catholic Church is to sex what anorexics are to food – i.e. dangerously obsessed and unhealthy.
I’ve spent the last week feeling paranoid, and moreso sad, about Sarah Palin’s reemergence and her triumph of ignorance. The media could so easily be complicit in [...]