What just killed my last email address was some spammer using my my email in the 'from' field. I was getting hundreds of bouncebacks a day. I made sure that they weren't actually coming from me, and they weren't but it forced me to shut down an email address I've had for years.
You have pleased the technology Gods and we all share in the fruits of your labor. A plague of spam, thwarted!
Pretty fancy stuffing a Greek play. Whatever happened to the whole time capsule thing? Do people still do that?
Laura, I hope you're wrong about the toxins. Blech!
Also, off topic, for the knitters, I found a pretty funny site with knitted skull and crossbones wristbands among other things:
http://www.craftster.org/
To give you an idea of the tone of the piece, it opened with a line from John Waters:
Every morning I thank God I'm a Catholic because it makes sex so dirty.
Michelle,
I didn't know any priests, and when I wrote the story, I was curious about what different types of reactions I'd get by priests, on the job. All of the sins I confessed were sexual in nature, masturbation, gay sex, use of birth control. The variety of responses was very interesting. The idea of the piece was to be irreverant and to poke some fun at the idea that various sexual preactices could be viewed as wrong. It was by no means hard journalism. And, to be honest, I did feel like a jerk for misrepresenting myself to those priests.
I can understand why some people would consider what I did to be anti-Catholic, although I'm not anti-Catholic, I just disagree with some church views on some issues.
Yes, I wrote it. I exaggerated the accusation a bit. Here's what they said about me:
The premier issue of a new magazine, Notorious, features an article by Sean Bosker that describes his experience of "going to confession" at four New York-area Catholic Churches. In his piece, "I Confess: Gettin92 Off Easy," Bosker instructs non-Catholics how to engage in a mock confession. Himself a non-Catholic, Bosker details what it was like for him to confess to various sins97all of which involved sex97and then receive "penance" for his transgressions. He advises readers to "Remember that priests are probably as grateful for some discussion of T and A in the afternoon as anyone."
Bosker "went to confession" at New York92s St. Brigid92s and St. Patrick92s Cathedral, as well as Blessed Sacrament in Staten Island and Our Lady of Sorrows in New Jersey.
William Donohue had a few words to say about this issue:
"David Anthony, the publisher of Notorious, says that his magazine was conceived as a cross between GQ and Playboy on the one hand, and Cosmopolitan and Vogue on the other. He failed: it is more like a cross between the Star and a Jack Chick publication.
"What Bosker did puts the lie to the notion that there is a strong inverse relationship between education and prejudice. While it is true that those with high degrees of formal education tend to be less racist and less anti-Semitic than others, history shows that when anti-Catholicism is measured, those who are the doyens of the culture tend also to be the most bigoted. Notorious is only the latest expression of that verity, demonstrating once again why anti-Catholicism has been labeled 91the last respectable bias.92"
I did a search on my name and discovered I was an enemy of the Catholic church because of an article I wrote in which I confessed my sins to five different churches. I listed where to get the easiest penance. I was titillated and horrified (my favorite combination) to be declared an anti-Catholic person. I really am not anti-Catholic, for the record.
In defence of the stone throwers.
I love this blog, and electrolite as well. I check them often, but self-righteousness and hypocrisy are my two favorite traits. (In myself, of course. In other people they are unforgivable)
I personally would only mock someones stat check immediately after being flush with pride or shame directly after a check on my own site stats.
Me again, yes, it's 11:30 on a Friday night. I have no life.
I was thinking about this guy's take on masculinity and what I found particularly offensive about his phrase "pussification" It's this: masculinity and femininity can be defined so many different ways that they are nearly meaningless terms. A man can be gentle and be very masculine, a woman can be strong and feminine, or the opposite can also be true. The range within genders is far more vast than between the genders.
That said, it's ridiculous to propose that one behavior is not masculine enough, or that men are being pussfied. Nobody could get away with a remark like "the Jewification of the Western man" or "the negrofication of the Western male" yet some bonehead can say "pussification" and some people will agree with what he's saying.
We've grown as a society enough to realize that there is no African or Caucasian way of behaving, and to even suggest such a thing is preposterous. I long for the day when similiar remarks based on gender are similiarly obsolete.
Wow. Of all the things to lose sleep over, I can't imagine anything less worthy than the 'pussification of the western male."
Someone needs to tell him that literacy is for womenfolk and sissies and the more he types the smaller his testicles become.
Damn, how'd you know that I was almost through with "The Curse of the Magyk Rose-quartz Dingleberry" Now I guess I'll have to write something else.
I love video games, although since my son was born I can't play them without a marital crisis. And I love fantasy books, but I don't read them for the same reasons that I game. A good video game diddles my brain in a repetitious escapist trance until I drool. It's like a temporary lobotomy to shut my brain up for a while. A good book does almost the opposite, it starts exciting synaptic firestorm that makes me think of all the different things that being alive can mean.
I think that often the difference between an original work and a crappy work is ambition. Is the author trying to entertain me with some cute stuff, or is the author trying to change the way I see the world and entertain me? The latter seems to get me going, the former gets tiring.
Video games are more like geek crack, books are something else. Comfort food sometime, other times a real workout.
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