Is there some photographers' conspiracy to make Bush look like a ToastMasters International supervillain? If so, extra points for this fireball-from-the-fingers number.
After listening to this episode of This American Life about Bishop Carlton Pearson, a former star of the "charismatic Christian" community, since labeled a heretic for his hell-averse doctrine, I went looking for more about him and found his MySpace page, which is worth the visit if only for the testimonials. My favorite, concealed on the third page, is this one:
Thanks for the add Bishop, you should come up to my home State of Maine some time and enjoy God's inclusive love while enjoying some fresh Maine lobster.
Times have changed. Heretics used to get the stake; now they're offered lobster.
Ah, my childhood. I have only the vaguest recollection of watching this as a kid. I remember crying. When I watched it in college, years later, I cried again.
"So I had this dream i was talking to a dog.
and i asked the dog 'can you speak to cats too'
and he said 'only if they speak english'
and i was like ... ohh riight."
I can't stop changing my Vox template. Nervous energy or something.
Among the many thrilling things about this last weekend:
In the tragic tradition of purloined property posts, here are the contents of my luggage, which went missing somewhere between my departure from New York and my arrival in Barcelona (more on that arrival to come):
NON-SENTIMENTAL CONTENTS:
SENTIMENTAL AND/OR TROUBLING-WHEN-MISSING CONTENTS
VALUE OF SENTIMENTAL +/ T.W.M. CONTENTS, APPROXIMATE: $260
VALUE OF NON-SENTIMENTAL CONTENTS, APPROXIMATE: $800
RATIO OF CONCERN FOR SENTIMENTAL VS. NON-SENTIMENTAL MISSING CONTENTS: 8/1
ADJ. VALUE FOR SENTI. & NON-SENTI. CONTENTS, RESPECTIVELY: $2080/$800
Somebody's having a good morning over at the Times.
If it feeds, it leads:
And you can be sure, as this fall’s party season gets under way, that pigs in blankets will be on all the right trays and platters. “They used to be like a joke,” said Ms. Blum, the party planner. “But everyone takes them seriously now.”'
Exaaaaaactly...

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