Religion & Sex: This post is bound to offend somebody...but what the hell

Very weird mood. Good day and holiday though. Even if the hormones are completely out of wack. Wired and can't sleep well. Annoying I know. I'd blame pumpkin pie...but something tells me that ain't it.

1. At lunch today after church conveyed to MD, which caused her to burst out laughing: Often when having discussions with angry athesists, excuse me, humanists...I feel an overwhelming need to say, "yes, but I don't believe in the God that you don't believe in." Which is actually true. I don't. I mean I believe in God just not the one they violently don't believe in. But oddly hard to explain. This statement arises from multiple and increasingly pointless not to mention annoying discussions with my violently atheist Aunt K on the topic. (She has serious religious baggage. Actually half my father's family has serious religious baggage. The Catholic Church was not a happy place for them. Bloody nuns.)

2. When buying trashy novels on amazon kindle, it's probably best to keep such things to yourself...it's a bit like admitting one has bought a vibrator or worse Playgirl magazine. ( Read more... )

3. Also when buying trashy novels or fluffy novels or anything priced for .99 cents or below, expect to see a lot of copy edit errors. It sort of goes with the territory.

4. C wanted to know why homosexual guys always seem to care more about their appearance than heterosexual guys. ( Read more... )

Meta on : Once Upon a Time and the Story of Jimny Cricket...

Tonight's episode of Once Upon a Time was written by Jane Espenson, and had Harry Groener and Carolyn Hennessy (two excellent character actors) playing Jimminy Cricket's parents. Jane is my favorite of the Buffy writers, I actually find her more interesting than Whedon and far more versatile. Jane has written everything, comedy, pure science fiction, fantasy, romance, comic books...and in various tv shows. She's more of writer's writer, not a director, actor, or producer like so many. Nor comfortable as show-runner.

And tonight's episode like much of her work deals with puppetry.

The story of Pinnochio often concentrates far too much on the boy, and not nearly as much on far more interesting supporting characters of Geppetto and Jimmny. The original version is not really a fairy tale in the same mode as the Grimm Fairy Tales but an actual story that someone wrote, much like Hans Christian Anderson wrote his fairy tales...and has long since fallen into public domain.

From Wiki: Pinocchio (IT: [piˈnɔkkjo]; UK: /pɪˈnəʊkiəʊ/[1]; US: /pɪˈnoʊkioʊ/) is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the 1883 children's novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, and has since appeared in many adaptations of that story and others. Carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a small Italian village, he was created as a wooden puppet, but dreamed of becoming a real boy. Pinocchio is often a term used to describe an individual who is prone to telling lies, fabricating stories and exaggerating or creating tall tales for various reasons.

And here's the book which you can read for free on the internet: http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/C_Collodi/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio/

This version has pictures: http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/pinocchio/pages/002_pinocchio.htm

( spoilers for Pinnochio and for tonight's episode of Once Upon a Time, cut for length, embedded video, and various quotes..more meta than review )