Weirdness
pharyngula | November 23, 2008But it seems to be serious. You have to read Christians AGAINST Cartoons — it claims that most cartoons are part of an anti-Christian campaign, and that they promote unwholesome values (like, say, a sense of humor). You will learn that Dora the Explorer promotes SATANISM and COMMUNISM, and that she has a TALKING GOAT (nudge, nudge). Hello Kitty leads children into Egyptian paganism. Adult Swim Sin is nothing but pornography and perversion. As for Spongebob Squarepants…Heads of the BEAST Ridden by the Mother of HARLOTS!!! Abomination of the Earth!!!
Man, now I have a real itch to turn on…
pharyngula | November 22, 2008You really have to look at this shirt from the right perspective.
On a superficial level, you might think it portrays a pirate octopus battling a team of ninja pandas, but you would be wrong. What looks like chaos is actually coordinated teamwork by both pirates and ninjas together. Fear them.
pharyngula | November 17, 2008Not to mention "Come" and "Pussy Control"…I knew that Prince had been getting weird, but the tale of his descent into Jehovah's Witlessness and his newfound contempt for homosexuals is really depressing. It's true. Religion poisons everything.
I've still got a hard disk stuffed full of lubricious silkiness from before his brain rot, at least.
pharyngula | November 16, 2008It isn't so good for a fellow's sanity to get the full dose of my inbox all at once, rather than spread out over four days. I got my mail working again a little while ago, and just browsed through some of the crazy stuff you people send me. Be amused.
A priest dared to ordain women. He's getting a reward, though: he's being excommunicated.
A priest denies communion to Obama supporters. He's intrinsically evil.
I have to give the Pastor Ray Mummert award to the Bishop of Lancaster, who has declared that the problem with the church is all those darned educated people who aren't attending…
pharyngula | November 12, 2008This old-school public service announcement is warning of the dangers of smut—and for some reason it's illustrated with a many-tentacled cephalopod hovering above my state. Prophecy?
There are more strange PSAs collected online.
pharyngula | November 11, 2008
The bigotry is going too far. Now the Diocese of Bath and Wells has banned garden gnomes from their cemeteries. What are we to do with the poor wee buggers, then? Let them rot in the streets?
I do appreciate the excuse given, though.
A spokesman for the Diocese of Bath and Wells said: "There is no such thing as a real gnome so why should we have such unnatural creatures in churchyards?"
Indeed. And what of the unnatural creatures that stock the interior of the churches?
pharyngula | November 7, 2008It's cute: this exercise in molecular visualization has been all dolled up with anthropomorphized atoms to sneak it into kids' attention spans.
I can't be entirely dismissive, though. There's some cool stuff lurking in the backgrounds of these scenes, it's just unfortunate that the goofy cartoon stuff is always being placed front and center.
I am kind of hoping that the creationists, with all their talk of cars and buses and traffic lights in the cell, steal this video. I can almost imagine Michael Behe exclaiming that the sophisticated facial expressions of atoms are evidence of intent and…
pharyngula | November 3, 2008It's a landslide victory! Obama gets 62% of the vote in World of Warcraft!
I guess it isn't that surprising that a poll of game players might get results that reflect the real world vote, but the strange thing is that there were some game-associated differences. People playing the Horde side (undead, orcs, that sort of thing) were mostly for Obama, while those on the Alliance side (humans, elves, dwarves) gave more mixed results, with dwarves being the only group that favored McCain. There's a joke lurking in there, I'm sure…I just can't think what it would be.
All we have to do now is make…
pharyngula | November 3, 2008Is there something the Catholics are keeping secret? Because I don't want to even imagine this ritual.
pharyngula | November 2, 2008You may all recall that a certain bad movie was released in mid-April…a movie which I have not yet seen, but which is now available on DVD. I was just at the local gas station/grocery store/video store, and there it was, available right there on the shelf. I considered it for a few minutes, and then, since I was paying for gas anyway, I tossed it on the counter and brought it home. Yeah, I know, I wasted $2.12, but it's about time I got it over with.
I'm about to sit down and watch it. I figure one way I can recoup my investment is by live-blogging it.
Here's the trailer.
That's right, it's…
pharyngula | November 1, 2008And she pronounces it good. Perhaps Larry will appreciate this: I have video evidence of Skatje getting her breakfast at…Tim Hortons!
Larry also has photos from my talk in Toronto.
pharyngula | October 27, 2008There's some weird video game coming out, called Heaven: the Game. It has a fairly elaborate web site, but it fails to say how you play the silly thing (I suspect you don't get to form an army and assault the throne of heaven…). It does have lots of shots of the scenery, which finally reveals the Christian vision of paradise.
It looks a lot like an even more opulent version of the Vatican, populated with flexible, dewy porn stars. It's actually not bad.
pharyngula | October 24, 2008There is a wonderful thrill of fear going through the far right right now — it's a marvel to witness. The latest example is a work of fiction from the Dobsonites, written as a document sent back into our present from a future world in 2012, after an Obama presidency. It's a dark time for the religious right (although they should just hang on—things apparently get better for them by 2112), and the story tells about all the horrible things that come to pass under Obama.
It's a weird read. Everything is about the gays — forget changes in the economy, or foreign affairs, or alternative energy, or…
pharyngula | October 18, 2008This is really weird. Dr Imad Hassan claims to have proven Darwinian theory from the Qur'an and the Bible. Only…his version of Darwinian theory is a bit eccentric.
Then we disclosed that the word 'Adam' is a simple Arabic term for 'convertible' or 'adaptable'. It is a collective description by God in the scriptures for a species of lower creatures which became 'adaptable' for radical change after long evolutionary processes.
We followed the description of modifying the 'Adams' and arrived at the conclusion that there were many individuals, males and females, who were converted to…
pharyngula | October 17, 2008Suddenly, the chorus of the Michelle Featherstone song acquires new depth and meaning.
But it's true
I'm still blue
But I finally know what to do
I must quit, I must quit, you
She must be from Innsmouth, and the song actually expresses a secret yearning. Although, really, I would expect more moist chthonian burbling in her voice.
pharyngula | October 16, 2008An interesting reaction shot from last night's debate:
(via Kobra)
What do you think? Is this what McCain will be remembered for?
(via the Minnesota Independent)
pharyngula | October 16, 2008I reported before that Nebraska state senator Ernie Chambers was suing god for committing evil and making terroristic threats. I'm sorry to say now that God beat the rap, and now has something in common with O.J. Simpson. Of course, he got off on a technicality.
"Given that this court finds that there can never be service effectuated on the named defendant this action will be dismissed with prejudice," Judge Polk wrote in his ruling.
So just because god is really good at hiding, or nonexistent, nobody can sue him? I think the judge should have at least issued a standing order for his arrest…