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Post by epaul on Jul 27, 2024 19:24:45 GMT -5
Not saying it worked or that it was the best idea ever. But, well, I took my metaphorical stab at it. And I think I'm close.
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Post by epaul on Jul 27, 2024 19:22:54 GMT -5
The Drag Last Supper was offensive.
But, while not being privy to whatever minds put the drag supper on, I have, I think, an idea, sort of, maybe, what the offensiveness was about.
I don't think they were ripping Jesus and the disciples. Nor was the intent to offend anyone's faith by ridiculing The Last Supper and what it represents. At some level, yes, there was an intent to offend, to be purposely offensive, but the presented offense was themselves. As in...
"Ok, you find us offensive, yet we were there, too, at that Table. We were at the Holy Table along with everyone else, and we belong at the Table along with else. The wine, the bread, the blood, the sacrifice, everything the Table was and is, was, and is, meant for all of us. We were at The Table, and we belong to The Table.
The Table was set, and meant, for all. And we, in all our glorious queerness, we were, and are, at The Table, too."
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Post by epaul on Jul 27, 2024 13:54:36 GMT -5
I hope the above came out like I wanted it to. The trouble with saying "I can understand why you feel that way" is:
1) the person is in no need of your understanding. That onus is on you, they're fine.
2) you can't understand, anyway.
Still, we try...
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Post by epaul on Jul 27, 2024 13:35:27 GMT -5
Not a bad idea, Mike. But no, stone cold sober. For one, a mockery of the Last Supper. In case y'all missed it. This sort of thing seems to be standard fare these days. Those games in Birmingham (?) UK last year was a remarkable Baal-fest. All the way back to the winter games in Norway, lots of pagan references. Not a fan, but whatever. But mocking Christian symbols is not cool, just as mocking Jewish, Hindu, Islamic symbols would not be cool. A keen eye would also notice a celebration of pedophilia. But I digress. Evan, I have to say I didn't see what you saw during the opening ceremony. Probably because I didn't watch the opening ceremony. (I have my own issues with these Olympics...). So, I watched some youtube clips to see what the heck was going on. Ok, how to say this without sounding patronizing... I can't say I agree with all you are saying, but I sure the dickens (notice I didn't gratuitously use "hell" or "fuck" as my adjective, opting instead for the respectful "dickens") I sure the dickens understand, as well as I can understand, different shoes and all, why you the found the drag queen Jesus thing offensive. Damn offensive. In your shoes, I would feel the same. However, as I am currently wearing my hot pink bra with the feathered boa combo, I can grasp a bit of the 'why' in the "why all this in your faceness" of the Drag community, as well. They are out of closet and don't want to go back in; we are here and we like sunshine, too. Anyway, don't be distracted by the fun I have when I write. Evan, I do see what offended you and you have good reason to be offended. And you aren't weird or drunk. (well, you are a little weird, playing nylon strings and all, but you're weird in a good way.) Anyway, this is just a 'hands across the religion divide' deal. |
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Post by epaul on Jul 27, 2024 11:00:44 GMT -5
Morning!
Yesterday was hot, hot, hot and windy. 90 degrees with wind. So I spent a chunk of the afternoon watering everything. Then it rained two inches overnight. So it goes. So it goes.
I guess we needed it the rain as it all soaked in and everything looks great. Goofy rain. No wind, just straight down like standing under a shower head. A long, narrow band heading off northeast of us got 4-5 inches. No storm damage or wind, just heavy rain.
Cat got caught in the downpour. Let her in during a break. She was one wet, pissed off, cat.
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Post by epaul on Jul 26, 2024 19:36:39 GMT -5
I'm bummed that there is no curling. Just doesn't seem like an Olympics without curling.
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Post by epaul on Jul 26, 2024 9:59:41 GMT -5
Morning!
Hot and windy. Perfect day for the Hobo Haus Marathon. It's a grueling event. To complete it you have to quaff a beer at 26 different beer stations. And they aren't located right next to each other, either. You have to walk from one corner of the Hobo to the next. Tortuous. At least there are relief stations along the way with pretzels and pork rinds.
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Post by epaul on Jul 26, 2024 9:41:56 GMT -5
I'm waiting for my trans Barbie.
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Post by epaul on Jul 25, 2024 22:47:05 GMT -5
He's the Don that didn't forget to wear underwear at the Dilworth VFW gig.
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Post by epaul on Jul 25, 2024 16:36:01 GMT -5
Whoops! Todd just set it on fire while installing the CD player. But, I just found this honey! It's a little sportier. Apt, I think.  |
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Post by epaul on Jul 25, 2024 16:31:32 GMT -5
Happy Birthday, Don! Been saving this one for you:  |
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Post by epaul on Jul 25, 2024 16:22:50 GMT -5
Oh, and while I'm not Catholic, I do drink a lot and sing in the choir. I think I got most of it covered.
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Post by epaul on Jul 25, 2024 16:18:02 GMT -5
Sounds like I'm JD Vance's kind of guy! I have two kids with my current wife, five from my previous marriages, and three or four others that I just kind of lost track of back when I was really hitting the bottle. I'm invested!
Does he give out badges and stuff?
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Post by epaul on Jul 25, 2024 8:45:14 GMT -5
Morning!
Singing at a funeral, then off to the Fair to grab a couple corndogs and see how my lily did. I'm expecting great things. From both.
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Post by epaul on Jul 24, 2024 23:40:45 GMT -5
The more I read history, the more convinced I am that young men and testosterone are usually a problem. One of the many causes of WWI, I've read, was that there had been peace for a long time. A lot of young guys were bored. They wanted the opportunity to kick some ass and gain some glory. They got the opportunity and a lot of them went home in caskets. There was an element of the same kind of machismo at work when the Civil War began. A lot of young southern guys were sure that if it came to war they'd whip the yanks. No matter that the yanks had four times as much of almost everything. We don't ever lose the genes that tug us towards violence but most of us get better at controlling them. It wasn't bored, testosteronal-laden young men who led the nations of Europe into WWI. Don't know where that take comes from. Nor do I understand how bored young, testosteronal-laden young men get the credit for the plantation slave trade economy and the political anger and idiocy that led to the Civil War. Young men might be eager to go off to war, but it is the old farts running the world that create the sour bed the wars are birthed in. Don't see how it's the young men who are the problem in this deal. Young men die in wars but they sure the hell don't create them. It's not young testosterone, it's old greed. |
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Post by epaul on Jul 24, 2024 13:04:45 GMT -5
I'm seeing part of the problem the Democratic party has appealing to young white and Hispanic men. Write em off, yahoos and Trogs the lot. Maybe get them back when they turn 70.
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Post by epaul on Jul 24, 2024 12:59:10 GMT -5
... I suppose I could get to work moving the motorcycle trailer out of the backyard for a little trip tomorrow. Man, that sounds like a lot of work. What fun is it to haul a trailer around the countryside. Plus, you'll kill your back! You bought a new bike, take that out for a trip instead of the trailer. More fun. Less work. |
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Post by epaul on Jul 24, 2024 11:53:04 GMT -5
So is Doc's dog. (I think he has been hitting the bottle again)
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Post by epaul on Jul 24, 2024 11:43:57 GMT -5
There are several Swing States. Pick a VP that can help with all of them.
The biggest help Harris needs is with young males. And not just white young males, all of them. And that help can come from an infusion of "manliness" into the ticket. Not an office manager or a new age sensitive, but a bald, tough, fighter pilot/ astronaut.
A St. Louis Cardinal hit a home run the other day and as he rounded third, he put one hand in the air and the other over his ear and shouted fight, fight, fight. His teammates followed suit. League-forced damage control ensued, "I was just honoring my Puerto Rican grandmother who lost an ear while fighting the Chinese!" said the ballplayer.
The explanations rang hollow. A bunch of young baseball players, over half of them Hispanic, were saluting Trump. And the Cardinals aren't an outlier, they are a typical ball team; it could have been any team in the league.
Granted, these young men are also millionaires, so there is the tax thing. But, there man were other non-millionaire young men in the stands and in front of the TV echoing the move in sympathy. The Democratic party has and is losing young white men and increasingly, young Hispanic men. And it does no useful good to smile at sweetly at yourself in the mirror call them young idiots or gap-toothed Trogs. One, they aren't, and two, they are voters. And the Democratic party has ask itself why and how it has lost them. And what it can do to get their fair share back.
Candidates like Mark Kelly or that North Carolina gov can help. But, no one knows the name of the North Carolina guy, so go with the bald fighter pilot/astronaut.
(and shove Harris as far to the right as you can get her to go)
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Post by epaul on Jul 24, 2024 9:16:46 GMT -5
Morning!
Came nose to nose with a coyote yesterday while mowing up at the farm. I looped around the house into the back yard and there was a coyote at the edge of lawn probably 15 yards away max. I stopped and we just looked at each other for what seemed like ten long seconds but was probably closer to five long seconds. Then she slipped back into the grove.
First thought was, "she is beautiful". Second thought was, "I hope this boldness isn't due to rabies". Then I went back to thought number one. She was so sleek and in such nice condition she looked as if she had been groomed... clearly a healthy, well-fed coyote, not a ravaged or rabid one.
I had been mowing out front for half and hour or so, so she knew something was up and must have been curious as the farm is a pretty quiet place most days. Anyway, there she was.
I've seen lots of coyotes, but usually a quarter-mile away running across a field. This was different. This was close and still. And she really was lovely.
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