Picture Perfect

Goddess of the factory, Betty, continues to make headlines (or the spot right near the headlines) with her lovely Brooklyn photos, which are getting e-published left and right. Please join me in congratulating Betty on her success and her e-publishers for recognizing what we all know is a great talent.

In addition, I'd like to take this opportunity to plug my slowly, but surely growing atheism blog good reason news. In case you don't get to hear me rant and rail enough in real life, you can read me almost daily there.

Finally, if any of you have interesting summer plans, let us know. Post a comment if you're taking any trips or seeing any shows. I'm fully open to posting your photos here too.

I believe I can (kill a) fly

I'm officially done apologizing for and claiming to support PETA. And this is why.

A waxwork model of President Obama is equipped with a fly swat, at Madame Tussauds waxworks museum in central London Thursday June 18, 2009, following his lethal encounter on Tuesday. The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he's bedeviled by a fly in the White House. PETA is sending President Barack Obama a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, a device that allows users to trap a house fly and then release it outside.

Hey, does anyone else think Obama looks slightly more British in this wax model?

I've started a new blog about Jesus (etc)

Oh, goodness. When things like this I'm usually unsure about whether it's heart-breakingly awful or stealthily awsome. On the one hands, all the teenie boppers and starbucks patrons who listen to Norah Jones have now been exposed to something slightly hipper. On the other hand, A beautiful Wilco song has been cheapened and pushed further into the soft rock category we always wanted to keep it out of.

I guess this is the time to mention two things. First off, former wilco member Jay Bennett has died unexpectedly at age 45. He was a great musician and contributed lots to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the last album on which he worked. Well miss him.

Secondly, I'm now the proud proprietor of the blog Good Reason News. Please check it out if you're reading this.

I'm hoping to keep more of my fun thoughts and discussions on this blog and keep my political and religious writings over there. Please check it out, it'd mean so much to me.

Greed