Hey, Christian Spirit Soldiers, how about some of Dr. Rebecca Brown’s Harvest Warriors Sacred Anointing Oil™? Heal the sick and cast out demons with this biblical recipe for miraculous works! “We have discovered that God will honor the use of any oil, but will greatly bless the use of His specific Holy Anointing Oil!”
Adult Swim
Jasper the Cat and I are watching Adult Swim. So far, this “Space Ghost Coast to Coast” has been one Hanna-Barbera in-joke after another. It’s hilarious.
Barlow Girl
Barlow Girls? Not related to that Barlow, are they?
Shaken Beef
Cooked some beef last night. Here’s the recipe:
INGREDIENTS:
Beef cubes, olive oil, minced basil, garlic, salt, pepper
PROCEDURE:
Pour olive oil in bowl. Slice/crush garlic and put in olive oil. Throw beef in bowl. Throw in basil, salt, pepper. Cover bowl. Shake bowl wildly. Marinate beef in refrigerator for 4 to 12 hours. Pour whole mix into pot and simmer till well-cooked. Turn off heat and leave covered for a few more minutes. Serve with rice/couscous and vegetables.
All quantities and times are purely arbitrary.
Afternoon with Kyriosity
Following worship at church today, Valerie and I broke Sabbath by walking around Towson Town Center and indulging ourselves in idolatrous worldly materialism at the Apple Store.
I scoped out iBook accessories, and got some questions on handhelds answered by the Apple cultists store staff. We also looked at The Dane in IE6/Win98 on VirtualPC, and I contemplated leaving VirtualPC open in fullscreen mode to see if anyone would panic at seeing Win98 running on a Mac G4’s monitor.
We also ate Japanese. It was good.
All work and no play…
Isn’t it funny how, right after I blog about The Shining, Jason Kottke posts this? (What really gets me is that typo in the 6th sentence. Does that mean he typed it all out instead of cutting and pasting, or did he just insert it there to make us think that?)
The Shining
I’m watching The Shining. Jack is ranting about how important it is that he honor his employer’s contract, right after typing out a hundred pages of how all work and no play makes him a dull boy. Then his wife hits him with a baseball bat. And yes, I’ve noticed Kubrick’s constant use of Native American leitmotifs contrasted against the symbols of Western imperialism.
Why does it seem that Jack Nicholson is always in the role of characters named “Jack?”
McCann Erickson makes a stand
McCann-Erickson Philippines threatens an ad pullout in the face of increasingly distasteful content on Eat Bulaga and Magandang Tanghali Bayan.
I applaud the move. Watching Filipino noontime programming has always been, for me, a grating exercise in dismayed abhorrence. Shallow, primitive, even predatory humor is inflicted on hapless contestants debasing themselves for a few pesos, while rows of women decked out like strip dancers prance about poorly constructed cardboard sets. It is a freakish, farcical carnival of debasement and debauchery, and the thronging masses, knowing no better, lap it up and ask for more.
Hopefully this move by McCann will help boot them — the TV stations and the viewing public — out of that pandering swamp. Would that someone could do the same for Filipino movies. Or MTV’s Jackass.
The Apple Cometh
Answer from the Smithsonian
I just got an email today from the Smithsonian, in response to an application I sent in six months ago, for an A/V Operator opening. Back then I would have leapt for it, but now I’m wondering whether I should bother telling them they were too slow, and that I’m now applying for the Dictatorial Overlord of the Castle position.