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12:25AM - Today SP is Eight Years Old.*

Whee!

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Friday, December 18, 2009

11:02AM - [WTF] I think this goes past Santa's "naughty" list.

Four year old boy found drinking a beer, wearing a girl's dress, and having just stolen presents from under his neighbor's tree.

Know how "Law & Order" takes news stories and jostles them a little to make episodes? I'm really, really hoping....

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qcjeph

12:43AM - Fart-chan Mark II

Tubgirl staggered and finally collapsed. "You...you have defeated me," she gasped.

"No," Fart-chan replied. "It was you who defeated yourself."

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Thursday, December 17, 2009

2:20PM

ASL level 4 - registration complete.

Someone come join me! (you know who you are)

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

9:37AM

I love you, you're perfect, now change.

I was treated to an outing to this production last night, and I thought it was great fun. It's a hilarious series of unconnected scenes exploring dating, sex, weddings, marriage, and gender stereotypes. It's just a 4 person cast, but they are a talented set of people. It's playing through until Saturday, and I enthusiastically recommend it (even if it is a little strong on the stereotypic models of relationships)

edit: WTF! I just got my first LJ reply that was spam, selling...not sure actually, but it was plastered with links, and an icon that was clearly a model shot. Anyone else get this before?

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

6:56PM

I know a lot of people are making wishes about what happens to Oral Roberts in the after life - some considerably more forgiving than others.

I admit it - I hate faith healers. I hate people who prey on the weak (probably why I look at all politicians with contempt) - whether that weakness is physical, mental, or emotional.

I have no interest in what happens to Oral Roberts's alleged soul. Whether he ends up in a spiritual rave where he's sucking on countless pills and body parts with no fear of consequences or he's in the depths of hell performing mutual colonoscopies with Jim Jones - doesn't matter.

I'm more interested in what can be done to curb the actions of the faith healers who are still out there making a profit. Like Benny Hinn.

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5:59PM - [News/"And Don't Let The Door Hit You...."] Oral Roberts dies.

Evangelist, faith healer and asshole Oral Roberts died at age 91. Aside from partaking in the well-documented scam of faith healing, which primarily preys upon the weak and desperate, Roberts had many "visions" from God that usually involved asking Robert's followers for money so he could build something else to glorify ~~himself~~ his invisible friend Jehovah. Most memorable of these was a "vision" in 1987 where Roberts warned his faithful sheep that God said if he didn't raise $8 million, God would "call him home." He raised over $9 million. Roberts also claimed to have raised the dead.

In 1963, Roberts opened Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, giving Texans one more reason to point and laugh at Oklahoma. The university's law school closed down in 1986 due to financial hardship, and was followed in 1989 by its medical school. One professor said, "It's a sad day when people realized they don't need to drop tens of thousands of dollars to slap someone in the forehead and scream, 'Demons out!' At least people are still stupid in other useful ways." He then did a line of coke of a crucifix.

In 2007 Roberts saw his university rocked with scandal as three former professors sued the school for wrongful termination. During this time, allegations of the tax-exempt improperly using facilities, equipment, and undoubtedly lots of money to help a local Republican gain mayoral office. Further allegations of using funds to pay for trips to the Bahamas, buy expensive clothing for Roberts family members, and others came to the surface. Robert's son, who now headed the university, assumed the expected martyr position, whimpered about how the world is so mean to Christians, resigned after a near unanimous vote of "No Confidence" by the university's board, and left with a lot of money. The university is still going strong after a severe cash infusion from Christian craft store chain Hobby Lobby over over $60 million.

Oral Roberts also founded the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association (OREA), a Pentecostal traveling ministry that claims to heal the sick. Now run by Robert's son and daughter-in-law, it kept Oral on the board (in a well paid position) and runs at a yearly deficit of some $2 million. As it claims to be a charity, non-profit group and charity ratings organization Charity Nagivator has giving it a one out of four possible stars when rating its overall effectiveness, proving that Charity Navigator is completely corrupt and overlooks OREA's important mission of keeping evangelists off the streets and in mansions.

Aside from a costly placebo effect for his followers of buying salvation and giving them the feeling they were making God giggle like a bowl full of cloud kittens and dreams, Roberts impacted the world in another way: musically. Mark Griffin, a musician, took on the stage name MC 900 Ft. Jesus off of Roberts' claims.

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11:18AM

The princess and the frog will not go down in the annals of Disney classics, but it kind of cute, and adequately amusing. The music I found utterly forgettable, but the story is ok. In some ways it's nice to know that old school frame cell animation isn't dead, and that it can still deliver some nice visuals. I love cgi, but there is something to be said for that hand drawn look as well. They seemed to be trying very hard to counter the typical Disney complaints of racism and sexism, almost too hard sometimes, with mixed success. The inbred redneck stereotype is certainly alive and well, but I think the portrayal of the black population of New Orleans is fair, and the main character herself is a pretty strong character who talks a lot about the value of hard work, and pursues her dream which has nothing to do with finding a man, and doesn't compromise on that dream. She's also a little curvier than some disney princesses, not a lot, but a little.

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9:30AM

Dexter finale

HOLY CRAP

that is all.

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Monday, December 14, 2009

11:54AM

Well, Beauty and the Beast is done. It turned out to be a really pretty damn decent show. It wasn't perfect, but for a cast that size and age range, I think we pulled off a strong show. I really enjoyed the character of Gaston. He's not complex, but he's deliciously over the top, larger than life, and also nasty in act 2. I enjoyed playing off the energy of the woman playing Belle, and we had a fun kind of fake antagonism going on backstage. I loved seeing after the show all the various people I know that came to see me, I loved the little kids that came up to me asking for my autograph (so cute)...it was a good time all around.

Urinetown next. Very different company, very different show rehearsal style, different energy, but what a great show. It's going to be a blast.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

9:25AM - [Webcomics] Webcomics Rampage in Austin

Hey people in Austin, TX, or surrounding areas! Don't forget I'll be there, as well a LOT of other cartoonists (Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content, Danielle Corsetto of Girls With Slingshots, Scott Kurtz of PvP, and more) will be at Dragon's Lair Comics Saturday and Sunday for a combination talk/signing/hawking our wares.

Click here for details.

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

dabunz

10:24PM

Winter: back with vengeance!

Final shovels. It's a damn good thing.

2:17PM

damn, winter has really arrived hasn't it?

Last reminder...did you want to see me in Beauty and the Beast? It's running this weekend.
You can buy tickets online at http://suzart.ca/

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6:02AM - [Friends] A Couple of Thinkgs

If you live in or near Dayton, OH, Tom Smith (a.k.a. filkertom has a concert this Friday. Click here for details.

Any ladies looking for some nice dresses and tops (or guys if you can fit in 'em), my friend desiringmachine has a few up on eBay.

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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

11:43AM - [News/WTF/Bigotry] New Ugandan Law Will Make Homosexuality Illegal, AIDS PunishableBy Death

Just being gay gets you life in prison - having AIDS means you can be executed. Oh, and leaving Uganda isn't enough. Per this law, being gay is like treason. I guess they'd be demanding extradition of homosexuals because I can't think of anyone stupid enough to say, "Oh, sure, I'd love to come home and be persecuted."

Oh, and why the FUCK is it Christian and Muslim leaders only ever seem to agree on the most horrible shit. Yeah, this law is being endorsed by Christian and Muslim leaders in Uganda.

That doesn't even need a smarmy comment. Religious leaders of faiths that claim to be about love are endorsing persecution and government-sanctioned murder - oh, and cutting all funding to AIDS programs as it supports homosexuality.

Christian leaders in the U.S. understandably threw their hands up and said, "Whoa! Back the fuck up there, Sparky! Nooooooo."

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qcjeph

12:28PM - Weird Methods

This song started out as a potential Deathmøle riff and quickly morphed into...something else. Sort of Fuck Buttons meets Dan Deacon meets dub techno I guess? I don't think I've ever had this many MIDI tracks running at one time before. Your average Deathmøle song has three, maybe four tops.

Anyway here's the song, hopefully you will like it: Weird Methods (tumescent elephant mix)

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Monday, December 7, 2009