“Don’t you see? The rest of the country looks upon New York like we’re Left-Wing, Communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers. I think of us that way sometimes and I live here.”
Bye, Wesley Crusher.
Wesley Crusher cut out of Nemesis. That’s really too bad; it could have been a good opportunity for closure on the character. Well, hopefully the DVD will still have him.
For now, we’ll have to be happy with Wil Wheaton in a boxing match with Barney the Dinosaur. Go kick his tail, Wil.
Of Mice and Uh…
Goat and pig sperm grown on the backs of mice. The possibilities are so endless, and the jokes you can make out of this so multivaried, I don’t know where to start.
“You scratch my back, and I’ll- AAAGGHH!!! I’M PREGNANT!!!”
At least it’s not seventy times seven.
Hmmm, it turns out that JesusJournal links me not once, not twice, but three times, each link a different blog layout. Make of that what you will. I have no comment.
Wishing on an In-N-Out
I keep hearing about In-N-Out but I’ve never tried it myself. When, oh when, will they come to the East?
Voltes V Lyrics
Cheesedip’s link to this Voltes V music and lyrics page seems to be suffering from intermittent server problems, but that’s okay, because they’re everywhere!
The fun part about the opening theme song is that it’s in 2/4 measure — like a polka. 2/4 is always fun to sing.
Roco’s Past
Raul Roco may have gained pogi points with his delicadeza-precipitated resignation from the DepEd., but as Max Soliven points out, political fortunes are fickle, and Roco’s past of deserted alliances may yet come back to haunt him. Does the Filipino political landscape have any good guys at all?
(If your answer to that last question was Erap, put your fingers on your keyboard and press Ctrl-Alt-Del repeatedly to win the secret prize.)
Brianna’s take
Since Brianna has done an excellent job of summing up the situation and providing a refreshing response, I hereby declare the “Manifesto Issue” concluded and closed. Great work, everyone; handshakes all around, be sure to help clean up the crumbs and paper cups on your way out. The End.
JesusJournal’s linking policies aren’t the problem.
Freedom to link [non-maliciously] is inherent to the nature of the web, even to or from sites which you may not agree with; so I don’t think this JesusJournal.com controversy is really a question of linking policies or permissions. Not to me, anyway.
Rather, the problem is this concept of JesusJournal.com’s attempting to bring order to the Christian “manifesto” or “association” to oversee Christian bloggers. It’s akin to butting in to moderate a conversation in which they were not originally taking part. The whole medium of blogging simply does not give itself to the kind of regulation that they want to establish, and the monolithic corporate ambience surrounding the JesusJournal.com outfit stands in sharp contrast to what personal publishing is supposed to be about.
So I don’t mind them linking me, any more than I would mind Americans for Purity linking to me. (Well, if bandwidth became an issue, I would start to mind.) But I will not submit to their manifestos or committees. This is the internet, not a local church or established Christian organization. Community in the blogosphere is different from community in real life worship, which in turn is significantly different from community in an institutionalized Christian ministry. Boardroom hierarchies and bureaucracies simply will not work for the world of blogging — Christian or otherwise. My advice to Mr. Hughes is to participate in the sphere on our level, with his own personal blog. Then he will be in more of a position to understand how interaction among bloggers works.
(Oh, and unsolicited bulk mail is the other part of the problem. That was annoying.)
Aight?
