i just watched that video... (or, well, listened to it while checking e-mail, but still)...

what is wrong with Bill Donohue? his ideas/comments are like watching some repressed librarian rip all the photos of naked bushmen out of the National Geographics... because it offends him, it must offend everyone? hmm... and therefore it's bad... how big a stick does he have shoved up where the sun don't shine?


i'm a huge proponent of art for art's sake... and he just stomped all over that... what with his "why don't you show it in some dump down in Soho" and the other comments about no-good loser-artists... wow... (all artists must just be degenerates then, eh?) mr-high-and-mighty-right-wing-christian never thought there could be another kind of christian out there, did he? and if there are other christians, there's no way in hell that they could be right, is there? and the "Leonardo you are not" comment... way to not understand what he was asking... haha...

i guess that's what you get when you give uneducated people power... ;) haha

it bothers me that Earth Day has stooped to this level:



it doesn't even say whether or not they're made from recycled materials...

Speaking of the Chocolate Jesus, I love Bill Donohue, talking here with Cosimo Cavallaro, the artist in question:

There was an article of how North Korea was interested in breeding the big rabbits for food.

And the chocolate jesus is brilliant. How can anyone be offended by chocolate jesus? This is the most useful version of jesus humanity has to offer! Display him today, eat him later! These silly Catholics can't seem to tell the difference between what's good for them and what's not good for them. Think of the flavinol! Chocolate jesus looks pretty dark from those pictures.

Uh...it is edible...right?

dude!

if this is the Easter Bunny, i don't want anything to do with him...


or this one, actually, he's effing huge!


sort-of like Huge Harold, i guess...

and i'd love to meet that guy!

but still... that's one massive bunny


yet he's no chocolate Jesus...


more info on "my sweet lord", i think...

how long has the Edmonton Journal had a section called "Leaking Oil"? it's certainly apt given the performance of our dear hockey heroes... "Oil Spills" just doesn't convey the full gory detail of what happened this year, but leaking oil?? The icon/image is kind-of entertaining too... if I could find a non-pixely image of it, i'd post it, but given the grainyness and its pairing with the Prongers, um... no.

good story on the fact (according to Cal Nichols) behind the "private family matter" that caused the oilers to lose their dream star player... i guess we just can't win over american privilege...

Wikipedia:

It is likely that the name "Good Friday" came from the earlier English name, "Godes Friday," meaning "God's Friday." In much the same way as "God be with ye" was shortened to "goodbye," so did "Godes Friday" become "Good Friday."

• Big Friday (Israel)


• Karfreitag (Friday of Lamentation, Germany)


• Great Friday (Eastern Europe)


• Holy Friday (Latin America, France, and others)


• Long Friday (Denmark and Scandinavia)

and, my favourite


• Jesus' Crucifixation Day (China)

Have a safe flight Al! It's breezy here, so use your judgement on what jacket to wear.

Happy Birthday, Leo. I shall impart to you the lessons I have learned today, in the hopes that they may come in handy for you in the future:

1. Being sick the day of an anatomy lab exam and an interview about third-year clerkship is bad (although I may have scored points by insisting on not shaking the doctors' hands.)


2. Formalin aromatherapy does not cure the common cold.


3. Despite the most vehement insistence of my subconscious, there is no standardized physical exam for assessing whether or not a patient is capable of self-driven flight (darn.)

Happy Birthday Leo!